Mirabelle Ordinaire is a French director based in Paris and New York. She joined the Metropolitan Opera Stage Directors in 2018, and is thrilled to be one of the revival directors of Zeffirelli’s iconic Boheme production.

Upcoming overseas directing credits this season include Les Pêcheurs de Perles at the Opéra de Dijon and Don Pasquale at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, Belgium.

Recent directing credits in France include a chamber version of Poulenc’s Carmelites (Fondation Eugène Napoléon, Paris; Septembre Musical de l’Orne), La directrice de théâtre, based on Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor (Philharmonie de Paris), Dai Fujikura’s The Goldbug and Rossini’s Il Signor Bruschino, both with the Orchestre National d’Ile de France, and Sondheim’s Marry Me a Little (Théâtre Marigny, Paris).

Following her residency at the Académie de l’Opéra de Paris in 2015-16 she directed Mozart’s Bastien et Bastienne (2017 & 2019) and conceived and directed the acclaimed Kurt Weill Story (2018) there.

A member of the English committee of the Maison Antoine Vitez, dedicated to translating foreign plays into French, she has translated a number of contemporary plays and opera librettos. She also has been collaborating with the New York-based Red Bull Theatre company for over a decade as translator and dramaturg.

Mirabelle Ordinaire earned her PhD. in Theatre at Columbia University in 2011 and has led acting workshops around Shakespeare’s plays at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris. 

She is the artistic director of the Compagnie Extra, through which she is developing several long-term opera and theatre projects.