Biographies Creative Team George Manahan Eve Summer Conductor Stage Director

George Manahan has had an esteemed career Eve Summer is a director, producer, and embracing opera and the concert stage, from the choreographer whose recent directing credits traditional to the contemporary. He is the music include Trouble in Tahiti at the Glimmerglass director of the American Composers Orchestra Festival, The Pearl Fishers at Opera Tampa, The and Portland Opera, and previously served as Little Prince at Tulsa Opera, The Tales of Hoffmann music director of New York City Opera for at Opera Orlando, Xerxes for Connecticut Early fourteen seasons. He has appeared as guest Music Festival, Aïda and Lucia di Lammermoor conductor with the opera companies of Seattle, at Boheme Opera New Jersey, Suor Angelica in Santa Fe, San Francisco, Chicago, Opera Theatre concert with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, of St. Louis, Opera National du Paris and Teatro Così fan tutte for Connecticut Lyric Opera, de Communale de Bologna; as well as the Lucia di Lammermoor for Commonwealth National, New Jersey, Atlanta, San Francisco, Opera, Carmen for MassOpera, and the world Milwaukee, and Indianapolis symphonies and premiere of Larry Bell’s Holy Ghosts at the the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Berklee Performance Center. Dedicated to the music of our time, This season Ms. Summer also directs Mr. Manahan has led premieres of Tobias The Pirates of Penzance at Opera Saratoga, Picker’s Dolores Claiborne, Charles Wuorinen’s John Musto’s Later The Same Evening at Boston Haroun and the Sea of Stories, David Lang’s University, The Mikado at Opera Grand Rapids, Modern Painters, Hans Werner Henze’s The The Pearl Fishers at Opera in Williamsburg, English Cat, Terence Blanchard’s Champion, Bluebeard’s Castle at Mid-Ohio Opera, and the New York premiere of Richard Danielpour’s Il Tabarro and Gianni Schicchi at Yale Opera. Margaret Garner, and Laura Karpman’s Ask Your A former professional ballet dancer, Ms. Mama. Recent seasons have included appearances Summer has choreographed Elektra at Des at the Santa Fe Opera, Rose Theater at Lincoln Moines Metro Opera, Falstaff at Opera Colorado, Center, the Music Academy of the West, the Aspen and Don Giovanni for Boston Opera Collaborative. Music Festival, and the Curtis Opera Theatre. She recently collaborated with renowned Mr. Manahan’s discography includes Edward choreographer Karole Armitage on the critically Thomas’s Desire under the Elms, Joe Jackson’s acclaimed American premiere of Philip Will Power; Tobias Picker’s Emmeline, and Steve Glass’s opera-ballet The Witches of Venice Reich’s Tehillim. His many appearances on at Opera Saratoga. television include productions of La bohème, Lizzie Borden, Madama Butterfly, and Tosca on PBS. He is director of orchestral activities at the Manhattan School of Music.

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