Beginning in the mid-1890s, Temple devoted much of his time to teaching acting and directing productions at music schools, primarily at The Royal College of Music where he was Professor of Elocution and Acting until the year of his death. He directed many student productions with Charles Villiers Stanford conducting, including Gluck's "Orfeo", with the young Clara Butt (1893); the UK premiere of Léo Delibes' "Le roi l'a dit" (1895); Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" (1895); Verdi's "Falstaff" (1896); Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman" (1898); Weber's "Euryanthe" (1900); "Fidelio" (1902); and Schumann's "Genoveva", with the young George Baker (1910).