Stephen Wadsworth
Director

Stephen Wadsworth has directed at the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Vienna Staatsoper, Nederlandse Opera, and in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Toronto, and Santa Fe. He made his Seattle Opera debut in 1985 with Janácek’s Jenufa and has returned for Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride (a co-production with the Met) and Orphée et Eurydice; Handel’s Xerxes; and Wagner’s Lohengrin, Fliegende Holländer, and Ring (2001, 2005, and 2009). Wadsworth recently directed the Aeschylus Agamemnon in Los Angeles and Terrence McNally’s Master Class at the Kennedy Center, and has staged productions of plays by Shakespeare, Molière, Marivaux, Goldoni, Shaw, Wilde, and Coward around the country. 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. He has translated a number of works for the stage, including works by Monteverdi, Molière, Handel, Goldoni, and Mozart. Wadsworth is the Head of Dramatic Studies at the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, the James S. Marcus Faculty Fellow and Director of Opera Studies at the Juilliard School, and a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.