A native Israeli, Opera Director Noa Naamat has worked across the UK, Europe, America and Asia on a vast range of productions, from mainstream repertoire to world premieres.
Her directing credits include Henze’s Phaedra (Royal Opera House), Benvenuto Cellini (Royal Opera of Versailles), Don Pasquale, L'elisir d’amore and Don Giovanni (Arezzo Opera Festival), Così fan tutte (Diva Opera), Il matrimonio segreto (Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music), La voix humaine (Studiotheater Schloss Belvedere Weimar) and Salieri’s Prima la musica e poi le parole (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland).
A graduate of Covent Garden’s prestigious Jette Parker Young Artist Programme, she made her house debut directing the Young Artists Summer Performance on the main stage.
Before completing her MA in Directing at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Noa studied Theatre Practice at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, as well as Italian and History of Opera at the Accademia Europea di Firenze.
Supplementing her operatic work, she also held a directing residency at Shakespeare’s Globe, where she staged scenes from The Merchant of Venice on The Globe stage.
Noa is dedicated to the development and training of young talents and has delivered classes and workshops for the Royal Opera House, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music, Clonter Opera, and the Royal Academy of Music. Noa has also worked extensively as an assistant and staff director for the Wiener Staatsoper, Royal Opera House, Scottish Opera, The Israeli Opera, Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.
Her production of Benvenuto Cellini, in which she collaborated with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, won the Oper! Awards for 'Best Opera Recording'. She also won the Opera Production Competition of the National Opera Association for directing Cimarosa’s Il Matrimonio Segreto.
Her production of Henze’s Phaedra at the Royal Opera House was nominated for an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera.