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Proving Up & Taking Up Serpents
Missy Mazzoli & Royce Vavrek
Kamala Sankaram & Jerry Dye
Shepherd School of Music, Rice University
Alison Moritz, Stage Director
Steven Osgood, Conductor
November 1, 3 & 5, 2019
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CHAUTAUQUA
OPERA'S 2020 SEASON
Tosca - July 10, 13 & 30
Thumbprint- July 3, 5 & 31
The Mother Of Us All - August 1
Steven Osgood
recently completed his fourth season as General and
Artistic Director of the Chautauqua Opera
Company, which featured new productions of Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, ¡Figaro! (90210) adapted by Vid Guerrerio from Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, and The Ghosts of Versailles by John Corigliano, including a festival weekend (July 25, 26 & 27) when one could experience the entire Beaumarchais Trilogy on three consecutive nights. Chautauqua Opera recently announced its 2020 season, celebrating the centenary of the 19th Amendment with new productions of Puccini's Tosca, Thumbprint (Kamala Sankaram & Susan Yankowitz), and The Mother Of Us All. A festival weekend (July 30 - August 1) will include performances of all three productions.
The 2018/19 season saw Steve conducting Britten's The Turn of the Screw at The Juilliard School, in a production directed by John Giampietro. He was Conductor Mentor for Washington National Opera's American Opera Initiative, and led the world premieres of 75 Miles, Relapse and Pepito in January. In February he was at Opera Columbus to lead the world premiere of The Flood by Korinne Fujiwara and Stephen Wadsworth.The season concludes with the much anticipated return of As One to New York City for the first time since its premiere in 2014.
In recent
seasons Steve conducted the world premieres of Breaking the Waves at Opera Philadelphia, JFK at Fort Worth Opera, The Scarlet Ibis, Thumbprint, and Sumeida's Song for the PROTOTYPE Festival, as well as Missy Mazzoli's Song From the Uproar with Beth Morrison
Projects. He was the 2017 Conductor Mentor for Washington National Opera's American Opera Initiative, conducting the premieres of Adam, Lifeboat, and What Gets Kept. Other notable productions include the
critically acclaimed world premiere of Xenakis's Oresteia at the Miller Theater, Tan Dun's Marco
Polo with De Nederlandse Opera, La
Traviata and La bohème with Edmonton
Opera; The Ballad of Baby Doe, Peter
Grimes and Tosca at Chautauqua
Opera; Glory Denied, The Rape of
Lucretia, Bon Appetit! and This Is the Rill Speaking with
Opera Memphis; Three Decembers at
Atlanta Opera; Tosca at
Hawaii Opera Theater, Stephen Schwartz's Séance
on a Wet Afternoon and Massenet's La
Navarraise with New York City Opera, Philip
Glass' Hydrogen Jukebox at Fort Worth Opera
Festival, Conrad Susa's Transformations at
Juilliard Opera,
Lee Hoiby's Summer and Smoke and
Virgil Thomson's The Mother of Us All at Manhattan School of Music, and John Corigliano's The
Ghosts of Versailles at both Northwestern
University and Manhattan School of Music. His
concert work included appearances with the
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony featuring Tony Award
nominee Louise Pitre.
He also conducted workshops of two new operas in
development: Herschel Garfein's Rosenkrantz
and Guildentern are Dead, and Conrad
Cummings' The Golden Gate, as well as readings
of Missy Mazzoli's Song
from the Uproar (April 30) and Anthony Davis' Revolution
of Forms with New York City Opera's VOX 2010.
From 2001 to 2008 Steve was Artistic
Director of American Opera Projects, where he
conducted numerous developmental workshops. He founded the
company's internationally recognized Composers and the
Voice workshop series and remains Artistic Director of
the fellowship program as it enters its 8th
season. He conducted the world premiere of Paula
Kimper's Patience and Sarah at the 1998
Lincoln Center Festival. In
2014 he conducted the world premiere of As One by Laura Kaminsky, Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reed in
its sold out run at BAM.
Steve has been an Assistant Conductor with
the Metropolitan Opera since 2006, working on many
production, including La
Cenerentola, Phillip Glass’ Satyagraha,
Tan’s The First Emperor, and John Adams' Nixon
in China. His
conducting appearances include L'Opera de Montreal, New York City Opera,
Edmonton Opera, San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera and
Western Opera Theater, Opera Memphis, Fort Worth Opera
Festival, Atlanta Opera, Opera Saratoga, the
Gulbenkian Festival, and the Wintergreen
Festival. He has been a regular guest conductor
with the Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music,
and Rice University. His orchestral work
includes guest engagements with the Chautauqua
Symphony, New West Symphony, Wintergreen Symphony
Orchestra and ICE Ensemble.
