Steven Daigle |
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Steven Daigle, director Steven Daigle, associate professor of opera and dramatic director of Eastman Opera Theatre, has served as part of the artistic staff for more than 300 lyric theater productions, along with calling over 400 professional operatic performances as a production stage manager. Daigle's experience as a stage director encompasses a range of repertory for the lyric theater stage. Directing credits include Claudia Legare, L`Etoile, Sweeney Todd, My Fair Lady, Man of La Mancha, La Rondine, South Pacific, Susannah, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dialogues of the Carmelites, II Turco in Italia, Cosi Fan Tutte, Transformations, La Bohème, Passion, Suor Angelica, The Goblin Market, Le Nozze di Figaro, Candide, Xerxes, The Turn of the Screw, Albert Herring, Die Fledermaus, Patience, The Tender Land, Porgy and Bess, L'Elisir d'Amore, The Merry Widow, The Sorcerer, Robinson Crusoe, The Desert Song, The Grand Duke, Countess Maritza, The Gypsy Princess, Angelique, Gianni Schicchi, Trouble in Tahiti, Christopher Sly, Signor Deluso, Riders to the Sea, Camelot, and Annie for the Ohio Light Opera Company, Eastman School of Music, Mercury Opera Rochester, The Lyric of Atlanta, Oberlin Conservatory, Louisiana State University, Florida State Opera, South Georgia Opera, Columbia Theater Players, and Kent State Opera Workshop. Articles and reviews of Daigle's work have been published in Opera News, Opera London, American Record Guide, Gramophone, Fanfare, Classical Singer, and Opera Now. With the Ohio Light Opera Company, he has served as stage manager (1990-93), assistant director (1994-95), and general manager (1997-98) under the guidance of Dr. James Stuart. In 1999 he was appointed artistic director for the company. He has directed over 50 operettas and served on the artistic team in over 100 productions. As artistic director, he has produced and directed revivals of traditional operettas that have been given an American premiere in their original form: Lecocq's Le Petit Duc, Künneke's Der Vetter Aus Dingsda, Strauss' Der Lustige Krieg, Kálmán's Zigeunerprimas and Em Herbstmanover. Fourteen historical recordings under Daigle's supervision can be heard on Newport Classic, Operetta Archives and Albany Record labels. These include six of Daigle's historical reconstructions: Sigmund Romberg's Maytime; Victor Herbert's Naughty Marietta and Sweethearts; Kálmán's Em Herbstmanover (Autumn Maneuvers - English translation and first complete recording), Das Veilchen Vom Montmartre (The Violet of Montmartre - English translation and first complete recording), Der Gute Kamerad (A Soldier `s Promise - English translation and first complete recording - released in the summer of 2006). Mr. Daigle presently is an Associate Professor and Head of Opera at the Eastman School of Music. He has served on the faculty at the Eastman School of Music since 1997. Daigle served on the faculty at Kent State University and as assistant director, associate professor (1989-96) and acting director (1994, 1996-97) of the Opera Theater program at the Oberlin Conservatory. In the summer of 1998 he served on the faculty of the Oberlin in Italy program in Urbania, Italy. |