About Me


2020 Dora Nominee for Outstanding Opera Direction, Amanda Smith, is enamoured by visual storytelling as a platform to explore the psychological impacts of music, colour and movement. Amanda creates stimulating productions that highlight opera’s modern-day potential with collaborations and inspiration from other contemporary art forms, such as new media art, electronic music, contemporary dance and event design.

For the past ten years, Amanda’s love of the creative process has led her to exploring the use of devised and collective creation in opera, as a way to empower the performers and creative team, leading her to bring elements of these methods into her rehearsal style for all of her productions