George R. Miller is a director and producer of operatic performance, deeply dedicated to celebrating and reimagining classical repertoire, as well as developing and championing newly created works. With a background in music composition and the visual arts, George has a strong interest in form, text, image, and gesture in his stagings, often interrogating themes of embodiment. His productions have recently been described as “stunning” (LA Dance Chronicle), “superbly directed”, “viscerally grounding”, and having “undeniable impact” (SF Classical Voice). 

Professional highlights include directorial work presented by Opera Philadelphia, Long Beach Opera, REDCAT, Opera Saratoga, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Pioneer Works, The Berggruen Institute, Pageant, and Wild Up among others.

This past year, George made his main-stage directorial debut to high acclaim, opening Long Beach Opera’s season with a world premiere production of the monodrama ISOLA by composer Alyssa Weinberg and poet J. Mae Barizo, featuring singer Ariadne Greif and dancer-choreographer Julia Eichten. He is currently developing a fully staged production of Franz Schubert’s Winterreise for singer, pianist, body double, and boy soprano 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, which will premiere at RECAT’s NOW Festival this fall in Los Angeles. In spring 2025, George will join The Manhattan School of Music as a guest director to lead a new production of Handel’s Rinaldo with the Graduate Vocal Arts Division.

Committed to new music and supporting his emerging peers, George has created projects with composers, singers, and conductors from The Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, The New School, Bard College Conservatory, UCLA, CalArts, CUNY Graduate Center, and Vanderbilt University. As an associate, he has worked on world premieres including Ellen Reid’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera p r i s m, Kate Soper’s critically acclaimed The Romance of the Rose, and Karim Sulayman and Mary Kouyoumdjian’s Unholy Wars.

Throughout his development, George has worked with companies and presenters in America and abroad, including the The American Repertory Theater, American Modern Opera Company (AMOC), Beth Morrison Projects, The Brooklyn Museum, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lisson Gallery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Ravinia Festival & PBS Great Performances, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Savvy Contemporary (Berlin), and with artists such as Peter Sellars, Thuthuka Sibisi, Zack Winokur, Anthony Roth Costanzo, James Darrah, Kevin Newbury, Kayla Farrish, and Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons. 

In Fall 2023, George was a lead Producer for the performance-art organization Performa, founded by art historian RoseLee Goldberg, where he worked to produce the Performa23 Biennial in New York City; specifically developing work with artists Nikita Gale, Teo Ala-Ruona, KMRU, and Alexa West.

This website is currently under construction. For now, portfolio and CV are available upon request. Please don’t hesitate to reach out.