MARC ASTAFAN - Stage Director

 
Regional Opera Productions

 

 

Nevada Opera Hansel & Gretel 2008
Connecticut Opera Tosca 2007
Boston Opera Collaborative
Dialogues of the Carmelites 2007
Central City Opera Cendrillon 2007
Nevada Opera La Cenerentola 2007
Central City Opera Don Giovanni 2006
Central City Opera/Colorado Symphony The Mikado 2006
Achorage Opera Madame Butterfly 2006
New England Chamber Opera The Scarf 2006
New England Chamber Opera The Seven Deadly Sins 2005
Central City Opera/Colorado Symphony Pirates of Penzance 2005
Achorage Opera La Traviata 2004
Central City Opera/Colorado Symphony

HMS Pinafore

2004

New England Chamber Opera

The Boor

2004

New England Chamber Opera

Trouble In Tahiti

2003

Lyric Opera of Waco

La Bohème

2002

Opera Theatre of Philadelphia

La Traviata

2000

Gulf Coast Symphony

Amahl and the Night Visitors

2000

Opera Orchestra of New York

Die Zauberflöte

1999

Opera Illinois

La Bohème

1999

Nevada Opera

Il Trovatore

1998

Central City Opera

Tosca

1998

Opera Company of El Paso

Rigoletto

1997

Eugene Opera

Die Zauberflöte

1996

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Staged Concerts / Scenes Programs

 

 

Atlantic Coast Opera Festival

Opera Scenes Gala

2004

Colorado Symphony/Central City Opera

The Jerome Kern Songbook

2002

Boston Baroque

Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

2002

Pittsburgh Opera Center

An Evening of Opera Scenes

2000

Music Academy of the West

Opera Scenes

1999

Central City Opera

Opera in the Rockies

1997

Colorado Symphony/Central City Opera

A Night At The Opera

1995

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Young Artist / Apprentice Productions

 

 

Tanglewood Music Center

Trouble in Tahiti

2002

Florida State University Opera

Candide

2002

Tanglewood Music Center

L'Enfant et les sortileges

2001

Bay View Music Festival

Le Nozze di Figaro

2000

Pittsburgh Opera Center

Così fan tutte

1999

Pittsburgh Opera Center

I Capuleti e i Montecchi

1998

Central City Opera

The Seven Deadly Sins

1997

Central City Opera

The Face on the Barroom Floor

1996

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New England Conservatory Opera Theatre

 

L'Egisto 2008    
Summer & Smoke 2007    
Gianni Schicchi 2006    
Les Mamelles de Tiresias 2006    

Little Women

2005 A Midsummer Night's Dream 1999
Cendrillon 2005 The Merry Wives of Windsor 1998

Die Zauberflöte

2004

Les Mamelles de Tirésias

1998

La Calisto

2004

The Padrone, premiere

1997

Candide

2003

Don Pasquale

1997

The Tender Land

2003

The Italian Straw Hat

1996

Seijo , premiere

2003

The Automobile Graveyard , premiere

1995

La Perichole

2000

 

 

The Rape of Lucretia

2000

 

 

The Threepenny Opera

1999

 

 


Assistant Stage Director

 

 

Metropolitan Opera Le Nozze di Figaro (Directed Performances) 2006

 

Tosca (Directed Performances)

2002

 

Parade (L'Enfant, Mamelles)

2002

 

Madama Butterfly

2001

 

Eugene Onegin

2001

 

Nabucco (New Production)

2001

 

Manon

2001

 

Samson et Dalila

2000

 

Die Zauberflöte

2000

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Madama Butterfly

1999

Michigan Opera Theatre

L'Elisir d'Amore

1998

 

Faust

1998

 

Il Barbiere di Siviglia

1993

Central City Opera Madama Butterfly 2005

 

Madama Butterfly

1997

 

Rigoletto

1996

 

Pique Dame

1995

 

Manon

1994

Boston Lyric Opera

Tosca

1996

 

Falstaff

1996

Chautauqua Opera

Le Comte Ory

1992

 

Madama Butterfly

1992

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Assistant Stage Manager

 

 

Boston Lyric Opera

Carmen

1994

 

I Puritani

1993

 

Wuthering Heights

1993

Santa Fe Opera

The Tsar Has His Photograph Taken

1993

 

La Bohème (Assistant to the Director )

1993

 

Xerxes

1993

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Teaching Experience

 

 

New England Conservatory

Director of Opera Production / Resident Stage Director

2003-Present

New England Conservatory

Interim Director of Opera Studies

2002-2003

Bay View Music Festival

Acting

2000

Music Academy of the West

Scene Study & Movement

1999

Central City Opera

Scene Study

1994-1997

New England Conservatory

Associate Director of Opera, Stage Techniques, Acting

1994-2000

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Education

 

Boston Conservatory of Music, Boston MA

1993

Master of Music, Musical Theatre-Concentration in Directing

 

 

 

College of St. Rose , Albany NY

1989

Bachelor of Science, Music Education-Concentration in Voice

 

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