Opera
Adelaide Festival 1980
Director/Producer
Australian premieres Britten’s Death in
Venice; and Peter Maxwell Davies’s The Two Fiddlers
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Opera Consultant 1991, 1993
Canadian Opera Company
consultant, librettist, and lecturer 1990-92
Christopher Hunt Limited international artists’
management 1964-75:
Director/Proprietor
artists represented [some for the world, others only UK]
included Thomas Allen, Agnes Baltsa, Josephine Barstow, Norma Burrowes, Ileana Cotrubas, Dale
Duesing, Birgit Finnilå, Anne Howells, Teresa Kubiak, James Levine, Robert Lloyd,
Mady Mesplé, Riccardo Muti, David Pountney, Margaret Price, Karl Richter, Matti
Salminen, Richard Stilwell, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Richard Van Allan.
National Endowment for the Arts
Opera/Musical Theater Program:
Site-visitor 1985-90
Opera Company of Boston
Management & Artistic Consultant 1983-84
Paris Opéra Bastille
Advisor to the Music Director 1990-93; conseiller artistique for the development
of the salle modulable [project discontinued 5/93]
PepsiCo Summerfare (SUNY Purchase, New York)
Director/Producer 1984 to closure 1989
1985 Handel tercentenary season with
Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Tamerlano, Teseo
Weill-Bach
Little Mahagony and Conversations between Faith and Hope after death
1986 John Cage's Europeras I &
II (US premiere)
Mozart
Cosí fan tutte (Director: Peter Sellars)
1987 Mozart Le nozze di Figaro
(Director: Peter Sellars)
1988 Mozart
Don Giovanni (Director: Peter Sellars)
1989 Mozart/da Ponte trilogy (Director:
Peter
Sellars)
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Opera Administrator 1975-76
included supervising all preparations for
world-premiere of Henze’s We Come to the River
San Diego Opera
lecturer, program annotator 1984-85
Santa Fe Opera
Consultant for 1984 US premiere Henze’s We Come to the River;
European consultant 1998-2001
San Francisco Opera
Artistic Administrator (1980-82), Radio + TV consultant, lecturer, program
annotator, & panel moderator 1982-84
Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts (Vienna, Virginia) Artistic
Director 1976-77
Multiple-arts program included the Metropolitan Opera, and
original productions of Cavalli’s L’Egisto and
Busoni’s Doktor Faust.
Opera panels and committees included Houston Grand Opera's 'Opera New World'; Metropolitan Opera Regional Auditions; Opera Quarterly magazine editorial Board; OPERA AMERICA Annual Conference 1995 keynote speaker