George R. Miller is an opera director. He creates sensorially rich, emotionally precise worlds that reckon with history, power, body, and voice, through sound, image, and staging. As a director and as a producer, Miller is dedicated to platforming and reimagining canonical repertoire, as well as championing newly created works. With a background in music theory and visual art, his multidisciplinary and site-responsive approach aims to bring new life — in vision, scope, and emotional impact — to classical forms. His productions have been called “stunning” (LA Dance Chronicle) and "superbly directed" (San Francisco Classical Voice), "coalescing into one undeniable impact" (San Francisco Classical Voice).
Professional highlights include directorial work presented by Opera Philadelphia, Long Beach Opera, REDCAT, Opera Saratoga, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Amant Center, Pioneer Works, The Berggruen Institute, Pageant, and Wild Up, among others.
Recently, George opened Long Beach Opera’s season to high acclaim with the world premiere of the monodrama ISOLA by composer Alyssa Weinberg and poet J. Mae Barizo. The production featured soprano Ariadne Greif and dancer-choreographer Julia Eichten. He is currently developing a new production of Franz Schubert’s Winterreise with award-winning bass-baritone William Socolof, along with an adaptation of Alban Berg’s rarely staged song cycle Sieben Frühe Lieder with composer-performers Eliza Bagg and Rohan Chander. In spring 2025, George joined the Manhattan School of Music as a guest director to lead a new production of Handel’s Rinaldo with the Graduate Vocal Arts Division, resetting the baroque comedy as a WWE wrestling match. Voce Di Mache, the notorious blog critic of NYC student productions, wrote: “Miller’s work doesn’t speak, it screams… No wonder the young cast and young audience enjoy it so much.”
Throughout his training, George worked with companies and presenters across the U.S. and abroad, including the American Repertory Theater, American Modern Opera Company (AMOC), Beth Morrison Projects, The Brooklyn Museum, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Ravinia Festival & PBS Great Performances, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, and Savvy Contemporary (Berlin).
In 2023, George was a lead producer for the performance-art organization Performa, founded by art historian RoseLee Goldberg, where he helped produce the Performa23 Biennial in New York City, developing work with artists Nikita Gale, Teo Ala-Ruona, KMRU, and Alexa West.
This season, George makes both his European and Carnegie Hall debuts. In Europe, he will direct writer, musician, and performance artist Johanna Hedva in a new work at Berlin’s Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) as part of Creamcake Festival. They will further develop the piece as artists-in-residence at the Mahler & LeWitt Studios in Spoleto, Italy — the former art studios of Anna Mahler and Sol LeWitt. At Carnegie, he will stage a pairing of Philip Glass’s Symphony No. 3 and the world premiere of Cloud Variations by poet J. Mae Barizo, marking their second collaboration, this time with The Knights orchestra in Zankel Hall. He will serve as associate director for a new production of Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw at University of California, Los Angeles.
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