sentences:  In opera, Caird has directed Mozart's "Zaide" with a new libretto by Italo Calvino at Musica nel Chiostro, the Batignano Opera Festival in Tuscany, in 1991, conducted by Paul McGrath.In 2005 he directed Verdi's "Don Carlos" at the "Welsh National Opera" in Cardiff, conducted by Carlo Rizzi.In the same year, he directed a staged reading of "The Screams of Kitty Genovese", a new opera by Will Todd and David Simpatico at the Public Theater in New York.