Allen Charles Klein, a native New Yorker, studied painting and sculpture at the Art Students League and the High School of Music and Art. He completed his studies in theater design at Boston University under Horace Armistead and Raymond Sovey. He is the only American designer to have focused his career exclusively to the production of design for the opera stage, and together with Bliss Hebert as director, has created more than 112 new productions over a period of 50 years. His work has been seen in America in virtually every opera house, including San Francisco, Dallas, Santa Fe, Seattle, Portland, Houston, Baltimore, Miami, San Diego, Detroit, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Mexico City, and the Metropolitan Opera. In Europe, Mr. Klein has designed productions for the Scottish Opera, Edinburgh Festival, Opera Northern Ireland, the Glyndebourne Festival, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the Vienna Staatsoper. His work has also been seen on the stages of the Schwetzingen Festival, Frankfurt Oper, Barcelona, Madrid, and at the Teatro alla Fenice in Venice. He has designed the world premieres of Floyds’ Of Mice and Men and The Passion of Jonathan Wade, Villa-Lobos’ Yerma, Thomas Pasatieris’ The Sea Gull, and John Eatons’ The Tempest. Together with Bliss Hebert, Mr. Klein divides his time between homes in Miami and Ribeauville, France. (Nov 2022)

Debut Production : La traviata, 1993