The Dallas Opera 2021-2022 - The Barber of Seville/The Pearl Fishers

13 Lina Gonzalez-Granados , Conductor The Dallas Opera debut The Colombian conductor, an alumna of TDO’s Hart Institute for Women Conductors, is the recipient of the 2021 Sphinx Medal of Excellence and the 2020 Solti Foundation US Career Assistance Award. As the winner of the fourth Chicago Symphony Orchestra Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition, she became the new Solti Conducting Apprentice under the guidance of Riccardo Muti in February 2020 and continues through June 2022. She is also currently Conducting Fellow with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Seattle Symphony. Recent appearances include concerts with those orchestras, as well as the San Diego Symphony. She was scheduled for debuts in recent seasons with many ensembles, among them the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Antonio Symphony, and the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. Gonzalez- Granados is founder and artistic director of Unitas Ensemble, a chamber orchestra that performs works of Latinx composers and provides access to free community performances for underserved communities. From 2017 to 2019, Gonzalez-Granados served as the Taki Concordia Fellow, a position created by Maestro Marin Alsop to foster entrepreneurship and talent of female conductors. In 2022 she will become Resident Conductor of Los Angeles Opera. Tara Faircloth , Director The Dallas Opera debut The director has created productions for Wolf Trap Opera, Arizona Opera, Tulsa Opera, Atlanta Opera, Austin Opera, Utah Opera, and the Merola Opera Program. She directed two world-premiere productions for Houston Grand Opera’s East+West series ( The Bricklayer and Her Name Means The Sea ). Deeply interested in Baroque repertoire, Faircloth made her directorial debut with Ars Lyrica Houston’s production of Scarlatti’s Cain: Il primo omicidio (2003). She has since designed and directed that company’s Agrippina , Actéon , and La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers . She has also directed The Coronation of Poppea for Boston Baroque and Dido and Aeneas for Ars Lyrica at the Festival di Musica Barroca in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and for Mercury Baroque. Faircloth recently directed Loving Clara (a mixed-media collaboration exploring the life and loves of Clara Schumann) for the Mercury Orchestra. Faircloth, who appeared at TDO assistant-directing Carmen (2004/05), is the drama instructor for the Houston Grand Opera Studio and has served as a guest coach at HGO’s Young Artists’ Vocal Academy, Wolf Trap Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, The University of Michigan, and Rice University. Allen Moyer , Set Designer Among the renowned designer’s many Broadway productions have been The Lyons , Lysistrata Jones , After Miss Julie , Grey Gardens (Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations, Henry Hewes Award), Thurgood , The Little Dog Laughed , The Constant Wife , and Twelve Angry Men . He has also worked extensively off- Broadway. Moyer designed Carousel and Show Boat for the New York Philharmonic and has been resident scenic designer for the City Center Encores! Series since 2017. He has also designed for every leading American regional theater. In addition to The Flying Dutchman at TDO and the Canadian Opera Company, his opera credits include Orfeo ed Euridice (Metropolitan Opera), Ricky Ian Gordon’s The House Without a Christmas Tree (world premiere, Houston Grand Opera), and productions for New York City Opera and the major companies of Seattle, St. Louis, St. Paul, Washington, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, and San Francisco, as well as Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera, Rome’s Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Glimmerglass, Tanglewood, and Wexford Festivals. Moyer is the recipient of a 2006 OBIE Award for sustained excellence. THE BARBER OF SEVILLE