SABLE STROUT (she/her) is an opera director and artistic director known for bringing “immediacy and intimacy to well-worn operatic classics.” Based in Portland, Maine, she specializes in site-specific, alternative, and reimagined operatic experiences.

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As co-founder and Artistic Director of Opera in the Pines, Sable transforms unconventional spaces — synagogues, lobster pounds, 18th-century meeting houses — into immersive operatic environments. Her recent directing engagements include La traviata at Kentucky Opera, Orpheus Retold at OperaDelaware, and site-specific productions of A Masked Ball and The Barber of Seville with Opera on the Pines.