MY LIFE IN OPERA

I’ve spent 10+ years making large scale musical theatre at San Francisco Opera. I started out as a rehearsal assistant and worked my way up to Assistant Director on the union staging staff. It’s loud, dramatic, expensive —I love it. When it’s GOOD, there really is nothing better.

Opera is as much a visual medium as it is musical. Lights, pyro, stage blood, period costumes, choruses, dancers, lights, rigging, automation — it all has to be arranged and timed to the second to convey one big idea. The biggest of human ideas like betrayal, love, forgiveness, death.

Have a peek into the epic world of opera and the stage that raised me: