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Director , Robin Guarino | |
 Versatile director Robin Guarino's sphere of activity continues to expand beyond conventional opera production. She open's the 2008 season at Canadian Opera Company directing Don Giovanni. Following that she makes her BAM Next Wave Festival debut in November 2008, directing composer Douglas Cuomo's Arjuna's Dilemma, a multimedia oratorio. This follows a busy 2008 on the operatic stage, where she directed Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto for Glimmerglass Opera, Aida for Seattle Opera. In 2007 she directed, Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto for Seattle Opera, Rossini's Il Signor Bruschino for New York's Gotham Chamber Opera, Le Nozze di Figaro at the Metropolitan Opera, Chabrier's L'Etoile at Wolf Trap Opera and Glück's Iphigénie en Aulide and Mozart's Idomeneo, both for Juilliard Opera Theater. Lincoln Center has long been an artistic home for Ms. Guarino, as she has staged numerous productions at the Metropolitan Opera (including Don Giovanni, Così Fan Tutte, Die Zauberflöte, Le Nozze di Figaro and Lohengrin) since 1992. Nationally, her work has been featured at such companies as San Francisco Opera (Merola and Adler Programs), Glimmerglass Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Arizona Opera, Tulsa Opera and Virginia Opera. A proponent of contemporary opera, Ms. Guarino directed the American premiere of Sutermeister's Die Schwarze Spinne for New York's Gotham Chamber Opera, and Carly Simon's Romulus Hunt at Opera Company of North Carolina. Additionally, she directed "Six Ten-Minute Operas I & II" (which included world premieres of Jake Heggie's Again, Mark Adamo's Avow, and David del Tredici's Dracula) for the EOS Orchestra. She has also developed work with composers Libby Larsen, Ricky Ian Gordon, Jonathan Sheffer, Martin Hennessey, Jonathan Eaton, Deborah Drattell, and Brian Fitz Patton, as well as with librettists Philip Littell and Mark Campbell. Dedicated to young singer training, Ms. Guarino has served as Dramatic Advisor of the Juilliard Opera Theater since 2005. She has also been a guest master teacher/director at Manhattan School of Music, Mannes College of Music, UCLA, and New York University. She holds the J. Ralph Corbett Distinguished Chair of Opera at Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where she begins her tenure as Director of Opera in September 2008. A distinguished Alumni of Bard College, Guarino has collaborated with Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra/Bard Music Festival on numerous productions. Her innovative staging of Janácek's Diary of One Who Vanished with pianist Ken Noda opened the Bard Music Festival's first season at The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, designed by architect Frank Gehry. Other productions include Schumann's Manfred, Orff's Carmina Burana (Avery Fisher Hall) and Janácek's From the House of the Dead (Alice Tully Hall). In addition to her career directing opera and theater, Ms. Guarino has produced and directed four independent films, including Crossing the Atlantic, which was shown on PBS's "Independent Focus." She has been the recipient of numerous grants, awards and fellowships, including the Hamburg Filmhaus Production Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts Artist's Fellowship Award, The Jerome Foundation Fellowship, and the New York State Council on the Arts Production Grant. |
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