Stephen Wadsworth
Director

Stephen Wadsworth has directed at the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Vienna Staatsoper, Nederlandse Opera, and Edinburgh Festival, and in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Toronto, and Santa Fe. He made his Seattle Opera debut 25 years ago with Janácek’s Jenufa and has returned for Gluck’s Iphigenia in Tauris (a co-production with the Metropolitan Opera) and Orphée et Eurydice; Handel’s Xerxes; and Wagner’s Lohengrin, Fliegende Holländer, and Ring (2001 and 2005). Wadsworth recently directed the Aeschylus Agamemnon in Los Angeles, and has staged much-traveled productions of plays by Shakespeare, Molière, Marivaux, Goldoni, Shaw, Wilde, and Coward. Wadsworth wrote the opera A Quiet Place with Leonard Bernstein, and directed the world premieres of Daron Aric Hagen’s Shining Brow and Peter Lieberson’s Ashoka’s Dream, as well as new plays by Beth Henley and Anna Deavere Smith. He has translated a number of works for the stage, including works by Monteverdi, Handel, and Mozart. The French government named him a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his work on Molière and Marivaux. Wadsworth is the Head of Dramatic Studies at the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, and the James S. Marcus Faculty Fellow and Director of Opera Studies at the Juilliard School, where he has launched the first intensive acting program for opera singers.