Layna Chianakas Stage Director
“Layna Chianakas framed the dialogue with bits of stage business that leave indelible images.”
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“If Layna Chianakas intended to prove the difference that a stage director can make, she could not have done better.”
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“Chianakas proved a double threat, singing the role Emilia vividly and also directing the entire production with sure-footed authority.”
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As an award-winning opera Stage Director, her most recent win was the 2021 American Prize for Opera Production for Livermore Valley Opera’s double-bill of Zemlinsky’s A Florentine Tragedy and Pucinni’s Gianni Schicchi
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“Chianakas gave them plenty of sharp, funny, well-timed stage business.”
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Opera Santa Barbara’s Tosca “deftly conceived by stage director Layna Chianakas.”
“A transformative, lean Tosca…electrifying tension and terse choreography throughout.”
Livermore Valley Opera’s Otello 2022
San Francisco Classical Voice Audience Choice Award
Verdi’s Nabucco, West Bay Opera
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