Stage Director
Michael McConnell
Repertoire
Works Directed:
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA LA CENERENTOLA
LA TRAVIATA RIGOLETTO FALSTAFF
COSÌ FAN TUTTE DON GIOVANNI
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE
HANSEL & GRETEL THE BARTERED BRIDE
NORMA LA SONNAMBULA
L'ELISIR D’AMORE LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR
THE RAKE’S PROGRESS LES MAMELLES DE TIRESIAS
THREE DECEMBERS
BLACK COFFEE
MANON LESCAUT LA BOHEME
MADAMA BUTTERFLY TOSCA
ALBERT HERRING THE TURN OF THE SCREW
THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA
ORFEO ED EURIDICE AGRIPPINA
CENDRILLON THE SECRET MARRIAGE
ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD LA PERICHOLE
CARMEN BEATRICE & BENEDICT
THE CORONATION OF POPPEA CALLISTO
THE RETURN OF ULYSSES TO HIS HOMELAND
STRIKE UP THE BAND GIRL CRAZY
THE MOST HAPPY FELLA
CABARET SHE LOVES ME CANDIDE
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC SWEENEY TODD
PIRATES OF PENZANCE PATIENCE
THE GONDOLIERS THE MIKADO
THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS THE THREEPENNY OPERA
PROCEDURA PENALE LES MALHEURS D’ORPHÉE
THE APOTHOCARY IL GIOVEDI GRASSO
World Premieres:
HAYDN’S HEAD (Larry Baker)
THE CRIMSON BIRD (Frederick Enenbach)
THE WOMAN WHO DARED (Zelman Bokser)
MRS DALLOWAY (Libby Larsen)
Producer Only:
THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO
POSTCARD FROM MOROCCO
MARIA GOLOVIN
THE THREEPENNY OPERA
THE MEDIUM DIDO & AENEAS THE IMPRESARIO
DIE FLEDERMAUS
LA RONDINE
THE ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO
Donald Sherrill, The Pirates of Penzance, Lyric Opera Cleveland, 1988.
Timothy Clark and Roberta Merrill, Haydn's Head (by Larry Baker), Lyric Opera Cleveland, 1987.
C. Stanley Photography
Emily Pulley and Michael Mayes. Three Decembers (By Gene Scheer & Jake Heggie) Michael Mayes, Janice Hall, Emily Pulley
UrbanArias, 2014
Ensemble, final scene, The Rake's Progress,
Cleveland Institute of Music, 1995.