Tomer Zvulun

Tomer Zvulun (; born in 1976 in Israel) is an Israeli stage director. Since 2013 he is the General and Artistic Director of Atlanta Opera.

Life and career Zvulun was born in Israel. He was a medic during his military service in the Israeli army. Originally, he wanted to become a doctor but opted for the opera and became a director. He studied art and music at the Open University in Tel Aviv, was a visiting scholar at the Boston University Opera Institute and graduated from the Executive Program at Harvard Business School. For seven years he was engaged as an assistant director at the Metropolitan Opera of New York, where he directed revivals of Tosca and Carmen. Zvulun is a frequent guest director at the Seattle Opera (Semele, La Boheme, Eugene Onegin, Lucia di Lammermoor), The Dallas Opera (Die Fledermaus, La Boheme), Houston (The Flying Dutchman, Rigoletto), The Wexford Festival (Silent Night, Dinner at Eight), the Cincinnati Opera (Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, Flying Dutchman), Wolf Trap Opera (Falstaff, Don Giovanni) and the Israeli Opera (Dead Man Walking, Giulio Cesare). He has directed productions at numerous opera houses in North and South America, including The Metropolitan Opera, Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, San Diego Opera, Minnesota Opera, Opera de Montreal, Boston Lyric Opera, Dallas, Buenos Aires, Wolf Trap, New Orleans, Glimmerglass Opera, as well as at prestigious educational institutions such as Juilliard School, Indiana University and Boston University. Zvulun is known for introducing the European premieres of numerous American operas. In 2014, his production of Silent Night at the Wexford Festival received multiple Irish Times awards as best production of the year. In 2018, his production of Dinner at Eight received its European premiere at the Wexford Festival Opera in Ireland. In 2019 his production of Dead Man Walking was presented in Tel Aviv, becoming the first modern American opera to be presented in that house.

Since June 2013 he has been the artistic director of the Atlanta Opera. As a director, he has interpreted a wide range of operas. In the 2017/18 season he staged three completely different works: the Wagner opera The Flying Dutchman, the musical Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim and the Holocaust opera Out of Darkness by American composer Jake Heggie.

Productions 2013: Lucrezia Borgia - Buenos Aires Lirica 2013: Falstaff - Wolf Trap Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera 2014: Rigoletto - Boston Lyric Opera, Atlanta Opera, Omaha Opera 2014: Madama Butterfly - Atlanta Opera, Castleton Festival 2014: Silent Night by Kevin Puts - Wexford Festival Opera, Atlanta Opera, Glimmerglass Festival, Washington National Opera, Austin Opera 2016: Dead Man Walking by Jake Heggie - New Orleans Opera, Israeli Opera (2019) 2016: Soldier Songs by David T. Little - San Diego, Atlanta 2017: Dinner at Eight by William Bolcom, world premiere at Minnesota Opera, thereafter also at the Wexford Festival Opera 2017: María de Buenos Aires - Atlanta Opera, New Orleans Opera 2017: Giulio Cesare in Egitto - Israeli Opera 2017: Eugen Onegin - Kansas City, thereafter in Seattle, Atlanta, Detroit and Hawaii 2017: Der fliegende Holländer - Atlanta Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Cincinnati Opera 2018: Out of Darkness: Two Remain by Jake Heggie - world premiere at Atlanta Opera 2022: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs - Washington National Opera, Atlanta Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City 2023: Das Rheingold - Atlanta Opera 2024: Die Walküre - Atlanta Opera 2025: Siegfried - Atlanta Opera 2025: Rigoletto - Los Angeles Opera 2025: Turandot - Atlanta Opera 2026: Götterdämmerung - Atlanta Opera