Alan is known as a baritone having sung throughout North America and Europe and is now more focused on producing and stage direction. As a producer, Alan is the founding Artistic Director of Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre and is also the current Director of Concerts with City Opera Vancouver. As a stage director, his productions have been called “Poetry on Stage”, and have been named in Vancouver’s Annual Best Music Events by vanclassicalmusic.com, including “Best Opera Production in 2017” for Handel’s Acis & Galatea through Sound the Alarm, and “Vancouver’s Best Experiment of 2018” for City Opera Vancouver’s production of Nigredo Hotel in 2018. He has found a home with City Opera Vancouver having also directed their production of The Lost Operas of Mozart, and more recently, co-created and directed their production Berlin: The Last Cabaret, presented at the 2020 PuSh Festival to sold-out crowds. In 2016, his original cinematic concert Dragging Piaf was featured at Vancouver’s Queer Arts Festival to rave reviews and in 2014, Alan wrote and directed his “silent play”, based on the life of Charlie Chaplin entitled Silent Chap, for Western Canada Theatre’s mainstage season. Upcoming, he is the Creative Director for Moonwake: Theatre for the Ears!, a series of audio-dramas for Sound the Alarm, as well as a co-director and co-producer for the Canadian opera premiere of Angel’s Bone. For more information, please visit www.alancorbishley.com