Résumé

YEFIM MAIZEL
Stage Director

2016
Opera Academy of California
   L’heure espagnole, Ravel

2015
Kazan Opera Theater
    Il Trovatore, Verdi

2014
Opera Academy of California
    La Voix Humaine, Poulenc
    I Pagliacci, Leoncavallo

2013
Opera Academy of California
    Giasone, Cavalli

2012
Notre Dame de Namur University
    Die Fledermaus, Strauss
Opera Academy of California
   Don Giovanni, Mozart
    Gianni Schicchi, Puccini
West Bay Opera
    Aida, Verdi

2011
Notre Dame de Namur University
   Hansel & Gretel, Humperdink

2010
Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute
  La Calisto, Cavalli

2009
Opera Academy of California
   Children Opera Program
Connecticut Lyric Opera
   La Traviata, Verdi
Opera Santa Barbara
   The Merry Widow, Lehar

2008
Opera Academy of California
   Winter Season in Opera
Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute
   Le Nozze di Figaro, Mozart

2007
California State University Sacramento
   Love and Death at the Opera
Livermore Valley Opera
   La Boheme, Puccini
Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute
   Silla, Handel
West Bay Opera
   The Merry Widow, Lehar
Opera Academy of California
   Gems of Russian Opera
Opera Santa Barbara
   Un ballo in maschera, Verdi

2006
Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute
   Dialogues des Carmelites, Poulenc
Opera Academy of California
   Happy Birthday, Mr. Mozart!
Opera Academy of California
   The Impresario, Mozart

2005
Opera Academy of California
   Spooky Times: Witchcraft & Supernatural in Opera
Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute
   Tales of Hoffmann, Offenbach

2004
Cinnabar Opera
   Something New For The Zoo, Hoiby
Indiana University Opera
   Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky
Metropolitan Opera
   Madama Butterfly, Puccini
Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute
   Les Bavards, Offenbach

2003
Opera Santa Barbara
   Madama Butterfly, Puccini
Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute
   Little Women, Adamo

2002
Miskolc Opera Festival, Hungary
   Il Trovatore, Verdi
Opera Santa Barbara
   Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti
Metropolitan Opera
   Madama Butterfly, Puccini
Bay Shore Lyric Opera
   Die Fledermaus, Strauss

2001
Metropolitan Opera
   Madama Butterfly, Puccini

2000
Bay Shore Lyric Opera
   Carmen, Bizet
Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute
   La Calisto, Cavalli

1999
West Bay Opera
   Madama Butterfly, Puccini
Opera San Jose
   Tales of the Nutcracker, Bohmler (world premiere)
Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute
   Suor Angelica, Puccini

1998
West Bay Opera
   L’Italiana in Algieri, Rossini
San Francisco Lyric Opera
   Das Rheingold, Wagner
Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute
   Riders to the Sea, Vaughan Williams
Berkeley Opera
   Madame Georgetown’s Daughter, LeCocq
Bay Shore Lyric Opera
   Rigoletto, Verdi
Berkeley Opera
   Luisa Miller, Verdi

1997
West Bay Opera
   Don Pasquale, Donizetti
San Francisco Lyric Opera
   Il Trovatore, Verdi
Berkeley Opera
   Manon Lescaut, Puccini

1994
Wexford Festival Opera, Ireland
   The Demon, Rubinstein
Michigan Opera Theatre
   Faust, Gounod (Ken Cazan production)

1991
Opera Excelsior
   Hansel & Gretel, Humperdink
Opera on the Hudson
   Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky
   Lohengrin, Wagner

1990
New York Opera Forum
   Fidelio, Beethoven

1989
Tallinn Opera
   Cosí Fan Tutte, Mozart
Kirov Opera
   The Nursery, Mussorgsky

1988
Alma-Ata Opera
   Tales of Hoffmann, Offenbach

EDUCATION:

2001
   US Educational Equivalency Evaluation completed: Master of Arts degree in Music, Bachelor of Arts

1987-1989
   Ministry of Culture Institute for Advanced Training, Moscow - Department of Musical Theatre : Opera Direction

1982-1987
   Leningrad Conservatory, Leningrad - Department of Musical Theatre: Opera Direction

1975-1980
   Riga Conservatory, Riga, Latvia - Department of String Instruments: Violin