GARNETT R. BRUCE Stage Director
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Oct 2008 – Present Artistic Adviser & Principal Stage Director Opera Omaha
Consult on all artistic, casting, production, marketing and education decisions with General Director and relevant staff. Available to Board of Directors for general or specific questions as well as providing artistic leadership behind fundraising initiatives. Travel to hear singers and see productions as required. Serve on Artistic Committee of Board of Directors. Advise on artistic and production budgets per production as well as long-range planning.
Direct one main-stage opera per season, other directing duties as assigned, including interviews and public relations, proofing program and advertising, writing additional copy as necessary, participation in fundraising events and liaison to guild events for specific productions. Lead education previews of main-stage operas as well as selected previews for MET HD broadcasts with Filmstreams (Independent Cinema in Omaha).
3-5 weeks in-residence for administrative duties (outside of directing periods), weekly phone conferences with Communications Director and General Director. Attend as many board functions as professional work schedule / travel budget will permit.
Sept 2006 – Present Resident Director (Adjunct Faculty) Peabody Conservatory Johns Hopkins University
Direct one main-stage or two (or more) workshop productions/scenes programs for Opera Department, with master classes and individual and group seminars as required by Department Chair. 8-10 week in-residence commitment based around professional work schedule.
Summer 2000, 02, 03, 04, 06, 08 Faculty Director Aspen Music Festival & School
Prepare weekly opera scenes with students in the program and regular Acting Arias class as well as consult on scheduling and staging of other opera events for 80 singers within the 9 week festival.
Summer 2001 Program Administrator Aspen Music Festival & School
Oversee all scheduling and production needs for 80 students, 15 faculty, and 16 staff for weekly scenes programs, 3 main-stage productions in historic opera house as well as additional concerts and fundraising events for the 9 week festival. Directly supervise one staff scheduler and production intern. Reported to Director of Opera Theater Center. GARNETT R. BRUCE Stage Director
December 1995 – Present Stage Director www garnettbruce.com for specifics.
2009-10: Lyric Opera of Chicago, Austin Lyric Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Orlando Opera, Opera Omaha, Peabody Conservatory, Green Mountain Opera Festival
Manager: Lee Prinz, Colbert Artists [email protected]
September 1993 – Present Associate Stage Director www.garnettbruce.com for specifics
2009-10: San Diego Opera, The Dallas Opera, Teater Hedeland (Denmark)
October 1991 – June 2009 Assistant Stage Director
The Dallas Opera, Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, San Diego Opera, Opera Pacific, San Francisco Opera, Portland Opera, The Santa Fe Opera, Opera Colorado, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Theater of St Louis
Directors Include: John Copley, Stephen Lawless, Francesca Zambello, Ann-Margret Pettersson, John Cox, Michael Blakemore, Bruce Beresford, David Alden, Lars Rudolfsson, Lotfi Mansouri, Nathaniel Merrill, Leon Major, Edward Berkeley, Michelle Assaf, Sandra Bernhard
Board of Directors FBN Productions Educational Opera for the Carolinas operaforkids.org
Internships Harold Prince 1990 FAUST, Metropolitan Opera Leonard Bernstein 1989 CANDIDE, London Symph/Deutsche Grammophon
Education Tufts University 1989 Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, English & Drama St Albans School 1985 (Choirboy, National Cathedral 1976-81)
Languages French, Italian (fluent); German, Czech (for rehearsal);
References John Wehrle Roger Brunyate Edward Berkeley General Director Opera Dept Chair Director Opera Omaha Peabody Conservatory Aspen Opera Theater Center [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Jennifer Good Ian Campbell Claus Lynge Production Stage Manager General Director General Director San Francisco Opera San Diego Opera Teater Hedeland (Denmark) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
as of Feb 2010