Michael Hidetoshi Mori is the General and Artistic Director of Tapestry Opera and a freelance opera director based in Toronto, Canada. Michael has won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Direction in Opera twice, has received accolades as a recording artist and film director, and developed and directed Nicole Lizée and Nicolas Billon’s R.U.R., a Torrent of Light which won the Music Critics’ Association of North America 2023 Best New Opera (marking the first time for a Canadian work.) He recently became the youngest recipient of Opera Canada’s Ruby Award for his co-creation of the nation-wide Women in Musical Leadership program with co-awardee Jaime Martino. Michael is the past chair of the Association for Opera in Canada and a current board member of Opera America.