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| Anthony Minghella's production of Madama Butterfly |
In 2006, as a consultant for The Metropolitan Opera,
I worked on marketing strategy for the company and wrote/designed brochures, ads, and other collateral material for the Met's
2006-07 season of 24 operas including new productions of:
- Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, directed by Anthony Minghella
- Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, directed by Bartlett Sher
- Puccini’s Il Trittico. directed byJack O’Brien
- Strauss’s Die Ägytische Helena, directed by David Fielding
- Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, directed by Mark Morris
as well as
- The world premiere of Tan Dun’s The First Emperor with the
composer conducting and Plácido Domingo in the title role
- An abridged, English-language version of Julie Taymor’s hit production
of Mozart’s The Magic Flute which inaugurated a new annual series of winter holiday family entertainment.
Returning Met Opera repertory in 2006-07 included:
- Andrea Chénier
- La Boheme
- Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci
- Don Carlo
- Eugene Onegin
- Faust
- La Gioconda
- Guilio Cesare
- Idomeneo
- Jenufa
- Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
- I Puritani
- Rigoletto
- Simon Boccanegra
- Tosca
- La Traviata
- Turandot
- Die Zauberflote
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| Tazewell Thompson's production of Margaret Garner |
First as a consultant and then as Director of Marketing and Special
Programming for New York City Opera, I oversaw the subscription, single ticket and group sales for NYCO's
2007-08 season which included 13 works, including new productions of:
- Margaret Garner by Richard Danielpour and Toni Morrison,
directed by Tazewell Thompson
- Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana & Leoncavallo's Pagliacci,
directed by Stephen Lawless
- Massenet's Cendrillon, directed by Renaud Doucet
- Barber's Vanessa, directed by Michael Kahn
- Purcell's King Arthur, directed by Mark Morris
Returning City Opera repertory in 2007-08 included:
- Agrippina
- La Boheme
- Candide
- Carmen
- Don Giovanni
- Falstaff
- Madama Butterfly
- Tosca
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