Yefim Maizel Stage Director
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    • Il Trovatore, Kazan', 2015
    • Aida, WBO, 2012
    • The Merry Widow, Santa Barbara, 2009
    • The Merry Widow, WBO 2007
    • Un ballo in maschera, Santa Barbara, 2007
    • La Bohéme, LVO, 2007
    • Madama Butterfly, Santa Barbara, 2004
    • Eugene Onegin, IU, 2004
    • Lucia di Lammermoor, Santa Barbara, 2002
    • L’Italiana in Algieri, WBO, 1998
    • Don Pasquale, WBO, 1997
    • The Demon, Wexford, 1994
    • Così fan tutte, Tallinn, 1989
  • Videos
    • Il Trovatore, Kazan', 2015
    • The Merry Widow, Opera Santa Barbara, 2009
    • Un ballo in maschera, Santa Barbara, 2007
    • La Bohéme, Livermore Valley Opera 2007
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      • Il Trovatore
      • Aida
      • L’Italiana in Algieri
      • Manon Lescaut
      • The Demon
      • Attending a Master Class by Yefim Maizel
      • A Stunning End of Season
      • Narrative in Theory and Practice
      • Un ballo in maschera
      • La Calisto
      • Don Pasquale
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Reviews


Spell of Fire and Darkness — Yefim Maizel Directs "Il Trovatore" in Kazan Reviewed by Anna Naumova
“Il Trovatore” is a successful synthesis of the stage director’s musical interpretation and theatrical ideas…” [Click to Read More]

Aida Review — West Bay Opera Presents a Gem of a Production Reviewed by Philip Hodge
"All is darkness and silence…… Until…… The audience bursts into wild applause." [Click to Read More]

L'italiana in Algieri
 
The Richter Scale reviewed by Judy Richter
"Maizel, an assistant stage director at the San Francisco Opera, sets the story in the 1920s and interprets it as a ‘tongue-in-cheek adventure story,’ according to his program notes..." [Click to Read More]

Manon Lescaut 
The Argus by Sheryl North
"...the most luminous of the gems in Berkeley’s ‘Manon’ were the music itself and the stage direction by Yefim Maizel..." [Click to Read More]

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The Demon 
The Sunday Times reviewed by Hugh Canning
"...sung in Russian without surtitles, the action was always crystal clear, the subtext subliminal..." [Click to Read More]

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Attending a Master Class by Yefim Maizel 
Grade A Entrepreneurs by Marylene Delbourg-Delphis
"Through his coaching, Maizel allowed the rest of us to "look under the hood" of the well-staged opera and learn a thing or two about what can effectively turn opera into storytelling at its best..." [Click to Read More]

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A Stunning End of Season 
SF Classical Music Examiner reviewed by Stephen Smoliar
"...the audience was thoroughly energized by Maizel's skills in ending the program with a bang..." [Click to Read More]

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Narrative in Theory and Practice 
SF Classical Music Examiner reviewed by Stephen Smoliar
"Last night's Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute (BASOTI) master class took a fascinating and informative departure from its predecessors..." [Click to Read More]

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La Calisto SF Classical Music Examiner reviewed by Stephen Smoliar
"In Aristotelian terms the opera was originally conceived with a priority for spectacle..." [Click to Read More]

​Don Pasquale 
Metroactive reviewed by Philip Collins
"Director Yefim Maizel brought out the sheer playfulness of Donizetti and librettist Giovanni Ruffini's three-act buffa. The singers relished their assignments..." [Click to Read More]
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