Steven Daigle |
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Steven Daigle, director Steven Daigle 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. Extensive directing credits include the complete spectrum of grand opera, light opera, and Broadway musical fare: including 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 in companies as diverse as Ohio Light Opera Company, Eastman School of Music, The Lyric of Atlanta, Oberlin Conservatory, Louisiana State University, Florida State Opera, South Georgia Opera, Columbia Theater Players, Kent State Opera Workshop, and Mercury Opera Rochester. 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 in a variety of capacities since 1990, 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 a number of traditional operettas that have been given an American premiere in their original form, and produced six historical reconstructions all of which have resulted in complete recordings. In September 2003, The Ohio Light Opera was given an Award of Achievement by Northern Ohio Live for its role in preserving operetta during the past 25 years. Mr. Daigle presently is Associate Professor and Head of Opera at the Eastman School of Music, where he has served on the faculty since 1997. In the company’s first season, Mr. Daigle directed Mercury Opera Rochester’s production of Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore in the company’s inaugural season, last season’s production of Bellini’s Norma, and this fall’s recent production of Copland’s The Tender Land. |