Elio Bucky is an opera stage director with an interdisciplinary background as a singer, composer, and projection designer. Their work celebrates plurality, truth, and innovation in the creative process.

This season, Elio joins The Atlanta Opera as the 24/25 Studio Stage Director. They will serve as an assistant director for Tomer Zvulun’s productions of Rent, La bohème, The Magic Flute, Macbeth, and Siegfried. In February, Elio reunited with conductor John Morris Russell to direct The Seven Deadly Sins with the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra and artists from Wolf Trap Opera. Their work as a projection designer was seen in Ana María Martínez’s Noche Española recital at Rice University and Die Fledermaus at Binghamton University.

This summer, Elio makes their Cincinnati Opera debut as the Revival Director of Rigoletto. Then, they will join the Merola Opera Program in their hometown of San Francisco where they will assist directors Omer Ben Seadia and Garnett Bruce, and direct the Merola Grand Finale on the War Memorial Opera House stage.

Elio studied voice & opera performance at Northwestern University and opera directing at the Butler Opera Center. They have held prestigious directing fellowships at Wolf Trap Opera and the Music Academy of the West, and trained as a singer at the Chautauqua Institution.