Paul Curran is a graduate in Directing of National Institute of Dramatic Art, Sydney, and Finnish National Opera, Helsinki. He is the Artistic Director of Norwegian Opera in Oslo.

Directorial credits include Tannhäuser (La Scala); La bohème, Peter Grimes (Santa Fe Opera); Ariadne auf Naxos (Flanders Opera); Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Canadian Opera); I lombardi (Teatro Comunale, Florence); Die Fledermaus, L'incoronazione di Poppea (RCM); Ariadne auf Naxos, Daphne (La Fenice); Cherubin (Cagliari); Peter Grimes, Otello (Teatro Giuseppe Verdi); world première Pastorale (Stuttgart Opera); Il trovatore (Teatro dell'Opera, Rome; Teatro Comunale, Bologna; Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo); Tristan und Isolde (BBC Symphony Orchestra); La finta giardiniera (Garsington Opera); I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Spoleto Festival, USA); A Midsummer Night's Dream, Die Konigskinder (Winner of the Premio Abbiati), La Statira, La Cenerentola (Teatro San Carlo, Naples); Mirandolina, Eva (Wexford Festival); The Miserly Knight, A Florentine Tragedy (Teatro Sao Carlos, Lisbon); Prince Igor (Kirov Opera); British première Kullervo (UCO, London); Hamlet with designer Vivienne Westwood (Clerkenwell Music Series); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Man of La Mancha (Covent Garden Festival); I Gioielli della Madonna (UCO); Rigoletto, Die Zauberflöte, The Bear; The Rehearsal (a new play, as writer/director) (Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Disney Hall); Die Frau ohne Schatten (Chicago Lyric Opera); Billy Budd (Santa Fe Opera); Tosca (Canadian Opera); The Rape of Lucretia (Central City Opera). Upcoming engagements include Peter Grimes (Washington); Lulu (Lyric Opera of Chicago).