Rebecca Herman is Artistic Producer of LOLA, Local Opera Local Artists in Austin, Texas as well as an operatic stage director. She is especially excited to be Associate Director for this new production with Austin Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and The Atlanta Opera. Last spring, she was the assistant director for Austin Opera’s production of Tosca at the Formula One Race Track’s Circuit of the America’s amphitheater and their Fall 2021 production of Le Nozze di Figaro. LOLA also got back into production in Fall of 2021 workshopping and recording two new operas: Lardo Weeping by Stopschinski, Galloway, and Nuud; and Good Country by Allegretti and Raker. Pre-pandemic highlights include: Dido and Aeneas (Director), LOLA and Panoramic voices; La Finta Giardiniera (AD), Portland Opera; The Magic Bullets (Director) and Die Walküre, Act I (Director), Queen City Opera; Otello (Director), Don Giovanni (Director) and The Daughter of the Regiment (Director), Austin Opera. She has directed Queer Opera’s weeklong workshops at Portland State University as well as their recent productions of The Old Maid and the Thief and The Breasts of Tiresias. Rebecca received an M.M. in Opera Direction from The University of Texas at Austin and both a B.A. in English Literature and a B.M. in Opera and Vocal Studies from Lawrence University. (Apr 2022)

Debut Production : The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, 2022