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has undertaken repeat engagements with The
Minnesota Opera (where his productions of
Donizetti’s three “Tudor Queen” operas were
originally staged), The Santa Fe Opera, Opera
Philadelphia, Houston Grand Opera, and the
Prototype Festival (NYC). He has also directed
for Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Lyric
Opera of Kansas City, Central City Opera,
L’Opéra de Montréal, the San Francisco Sym-
phony, the Glimmerglass Festival, and Opera
Theatre of Saint Louis. Highly committed to
new work, Newbury has directed dozens of
world premiere plays, musicals and operas. The
director’s production of Mercadante’s
Virginia
won the 2010 Irish Times Theatre Award for
Best Opera Production at Ireland’s Wexford
Festival Opera. His productions have been
nominated for a Grammy Award, a Drama
Desk Award, and the GLAAD Media Award.
Newbury has directed two short films:
Mon-
sura is Waiting
, which has screened at more
than 20 film festivals and won several awards,
and
Stag
, which recently won the “Best of New
York” award (NY Shorts Fest) and a Silver
Remi Award (Houston International Film
Festival).
DAVID KORINS
(
Set Designer
)
Lyric Opera debut
The Manhattan-based
designer has been involved
in numerous prestigious
productions for theater,
opera, film, television,
concerts, and festivals worldwide. Among
Korins’s extensive credits are productions at
San Francisco Opera (
Norma
, Mark Adamo’s
The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
, world premiere)
and Santa Fe Opera (world premieres of Theo-
dore Morrison’s
Oscar
and Lewis Spratlan’s
Life Is a Dream
). His designs on Broadway
include
Hamilton
,
Misery
,
Motown
,
Vanya and
Sonia and Masha and Spike
(Tony Award),
Annie
,
Bring It On!
,
An Evening with Patti
Lupone & Mandy Patinkin
,
Godspell
,
Chinglish
,
and
The Pee-Wee Herman Show
. Korins has
served as the creative director for performances
by renowned musical artists such as Mariah
Carey, Kanye West, and Sia. He recently
collaborated with Andrea Bocelli on the PBS
telecast of
Cinema
at the Dolby Theatre. In
2014, he worked with the Gagosian Gallery
on the exhibitions
Picasso and the Camera
and
Takashi Murakami: In the Land of the Dead,
Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow
, and oversaw
the design and construction of Florian Café
on New York’s Park Avenue South in partner-
ship with restaurateur Shelly Fireman, with
whom he is currently working to design the
relocation and expansion of Bond 45 in Times
Square. Korins has received a Drama Desk
Award, three Henry Hewes Awards, and the
2009 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence
in Design.
CONSTANCE
HOFFMAN
(
Costume Designer
)
Lyric Opera debut
The designer’s current
season includes
Turandot
at Austria’s Bregenz Festival
and New York productions
of Pinter’s
Old Times
(Roundabout Theatre,
directed by Douglas Hodge) and
Pericles
(Theatre for a New Audience, directed by
Trevor Nunn). Hoffman’s career has included
collaborations with directors Mark Lamos,
Robert Carsen, David Alden, Christopher
Alden, Julie Taymor, and Keith Warner; dancer
Mikhail Baryshnikov; choreographer Eliot Feld;
and entertainer BetteMidler. Her work has been
seen on many New York stages, including the
Public Theatre, The New Victory Theatre, The
Second Stage, Madison Square Garden, Radio
City Music Hall, and The Joyce. Hoffman’s
Broadway debut, designing Julie Taymor’s
The
Green Bird
, earned her Tony Award and Outer
Critics Circle Award nominations. Operatic
designs include productions for many major
companies internationally, among them those
of Paris, Tel Aviv, Munich, San Francisco,
Santa Fe, Houston, Los Angeles, and St. Louis,
as well as the Glyndebourne and Glimmerglass
festivals. Regionally she has designed for such
prestigious theaters as the Guthrie, Hartford
Stage, Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre,
Baltimore’s Center Stage, and Houston’s
Alley Theatre. Hoffman was honored with
The Theatre Development Fund’s Irene Sharaff
Young Masters Award (2001) with invitations
to exhibit her work in the Prague Quadrennial
(2003, 2007, 2011). She currently teaches in
the Department of Design for Stage and Film
at the Tisch School of the Arts.
DUANE SCHULER
(
Lighting Designer
)
Previously at Lyric Opera:
More than 130
productions since 1977,
most recently
Tosca,
Capriccio, Don Giovanni
(all 2014-15)
.
The Wisconsin-born lighting designer’s recent
European work has encompassed productions
at La Scala (
Turandot
), Barcelona’s Gran
Teatre del Liceu (
Don Pasquale
, Massenet’s
Cendrillon
), and Covent Garden (Meyerbeer’s
Robert le diable
). He has previously designed
in Europe for many other companies,
including the major houses of Lyon, Rome,
Amsterdam, and Baden-Baden, as well as
the Salzburg Festival. Highlights this season
include
The Marriage of Figaro
(Seattle),
Der
Rosenkavalier
(Berlin), and Rossini’s
Maometto
Secondo
(Toronto). Over the past two
decades Schuler has designed 24 productions
at the Metropolitan Opera, most recently
last season’s company premiere of Rossini’s
La donna del lago
. Additional American
opera credits include many productions in
San Francisco (most recently
Werther
,
The
Makropulos Case, Otello,
and
La fanciulla del
West
), Seattle (
Don Giovanni
,
Porgy and Bess
,
Il barbiere di Siviglia
, and
Fidelio
), Santa Fe
(where he returned in 2014 for
Fidelio
and
Don Pasquale
), Los Angeles, and Houston.
Schuler’s theater work includes productions
for Broadway (most recently
The Importance of
Being Earnest
), Manhattan Theatre Club and
the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. His
designs can be seen on DVD in the Baden-
Baden production of
Lohengrin
and numerous
Met productions, among them
Don Pasquale
,
Thaïs, La rondine
, and
The First Emperor
.
Schuler is a founding partner of Schuler
Shook, a theater planning and architectural
lighting design firm (Chicago, Minneapolis,
Dallas, Melbourne).
GREG EMETAZ
(
Projection Designer
)
Lyric Opera debut
Based in New York, the
filmmaker and projection
designer has served as video
director for the 2008-11
National Endowment for
the Arts Opera Honors, the 2011 NEA Jazz
Masters, and the 2007-10 New York City
Opera VOX Showcases. Emetaz’s video designs
for the stage include numerous productions at
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, among them
Terrence Blanchard’s
Champion
, Peter Ash’s
The Golden Ticket
(world premieres), Unsuk
Chin’s
Alice in Wonderland
(U.S. premiere),
and
The Death of Klinghoffer
, as well as
The
Blue Bear
(Alaska’s Perseverance Theatre),
Ajax
(American Repertory Theater), Wallace
Shawn’s
The Music Teacher
(New York’s
Minetta Lane Theatre), and Tobias Picker’s
Dolores Claiborne
(San Francisco Opera, world
premiere). In addition to his acclaimed work in
stage design, Emetaz is the director of the short
films
Bowes Academy
and
Death by Omelette
(SHORTSNONSTOP film festival finalist),
the feature documentary
Fay Lindsay-Jones