Productions include Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer's Moby Dick (Utah Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Opera San Jose) Dead Man Walking (Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Des Moines Metro Opera, Madison Opera) the world premiers of Louis Karchin's Jane Eyre (Center for Contemporary Opera, New York), Mark Lanz Weiser and Amy Punt's The Place Where You Started (Art Share, LA) and Celka Ojakanga and Amy Punt's Mirror Game new productions of Wozzeck, Billy Budd (regional Emmy award) and Peter Grimes as well as As One (Kaminsky / Campbell / Reed), Glory Denied and Soldier Songs (Des Moines Metro Opera, Urban Arias), Jonathan Dove’s Flight (Pittsburgh Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Austin Opera), Jake Heggie’s The End of the Affair (Lyric Opera of Kansas City) and Three Decembers (Des Moines Metro Opera) Florencia en el Amazonas (Madison Opera), Elmer Gantry (Tulsa Opera), Of Mice and Men (Utah Opera, Austin Opera, Tulsa Opera), the world premier of Kirke Mechem’s John Brown (Lyric Opera of Kansas City) new productions of Street Scene, The Tender Land (Michigan Opera Theater), Horovitz's Gentleman's Island (Utah Opera) and Lee Hoiby's Bon Appétit and updated English-language version of Poulenc's The Human Voice (Utah Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera), a staged concert version of Vanessa ( Toledo Opera) and the world premier of The Canticle of the Black Madonna (Newmark Theater, Portland).

with a focus on new, contemporary, and American works. Stage director Kristine McIntyre has directed more than 100 operas across the U.S.

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