Jonathon Field
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JONATHON FIELD, Associate Professor for Opera Theater,
has directed over ninety productions throughout the United States, and
is becoming one of America's most sought-after stage directors. He has
directed touring productions for the Lyric
Opera of Chicago of Trouble in Tahiti, Gianni Schicchi,
The Old Maid and the Thief, and The Spanish Hour. For San
Fransisco Opera's Western Opera
Theatre he directed La Cenerentola and Die Fledermaus,
and for Seattle Opera , an
updated version of La Boheme. In San Fransisco he has also directed
Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov
in the original Russian. Over the past ten years, he has also directed
ten productions for the Arizona Opera
, being deemed by the press "their most perceptive stage-director". Mr.
Field's range extends from the avante-garde to musical comedy. He has
successfully introduced computer-generated s cenery to opera production
in Candide, and he has pioneered the use of video-projected scenery
in productions of The Tales of Hoffman and Der Freischutz
. In the realm of operetta and musicals, he has staged H.M.S. Pinafore
for Opera Omaha, Trial by Jury for Lake
George Opera , Bernstein's Wonderful Town in Chicago, and Merry
Widow and Countess Maritza in San Fransisco. He has worked
on several world premieres, most notably assisting Robert Altman with
William Bolcom's McTeague in Chicago and David Alden with Conrad
Susa's The Love of Don Perlimplin in San Francisco.
Since coming to Oberlin, Mr. Field has directed Carmen, Slow Dusk,
The Old Maid and the Thief, Roméo et Juliette, Così fan
Tutte, Manon, Don Giovanni, Coyote Tales, La Cenerentola, Die Fledermaus,
The Rake's Progress, The Bartered Bride, Alcina, Hänsel und Gretel,
and Albert Herring. As artistic director of Lyric
Opera Cleveland, Mr. Field directed the 2002 production of Don
Giovanni, which was nominated for the Northern Ohio Live Award
of Achievement. In the 2004 season Mr. Field directed Così
fan Tutte and was the artistic director for Little Women.
