|
 |
NEWS
Breaking News
Glimmerglass Opera Names Don Marrazo, Former PR Director, as New Director of Artistic Operations
November 30, 2006
Glimmerglass Opera has announced that Don Marrazo, the company's former director of public relations, has officially been named as its new director of artistic operations. Marazzo had previously been serving as the company's interim director of artistic operations following the departure last fall of Nicholas G. Russell.
Marazzo, who joined the company's public relations department in 2005, is a graduate of Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music — where he received a degree in vocal performance — and Sweelinck Conservatorium in the Netherlands, from which he received a Master of Music degree. Prior to joining Glimmerglass he was an employee of KKN Enterprises, a New York City-based classical-music public relations firm.
"We are incredibly fortunate to have discovered within our own ranks an extremely talented and capable individual to fill the position of director of artistic operations," said Michael MacLeod, Glimmerglass's general and artistic director. "Don possesses extensive knowledge of the operatic industry, repertoire and voices, and we are delighted to be working with him in this new capacity to bring Glimmerglass Opera to an even higher level of artistic achievement."
Marrazo's promotion comes at a trying moment for the Cooperstown-based company, which annually presents performances in a festival format during July and August. By the time that the former director of artistic operations Nicholas G. Russell announced in September that the 2006 festival season had marked the end of his decade-long association with the company, he was the third such top administrator at the organization to depart from the company within the span of a year. Paul Kellogg, Glimmerglass's artistic director — as well as the general and artistic director of New York City Opera — also retired from the opera at the end of the 2006 season, ending an affiliation that had lasted some twenty-seven years; likewise, music director and principal conductor, Stewart Roberson, announced that he would depart from the company at the end of the 2006 season, so that he might focus on his responsibilities as music director and principal conductor of Florida Grand Opera and the Atlantic Classical Orchestra, and artistic director of Opera Omaha. In January of 2006, MacLeod — a former executive director of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra — accepted the dual appointment of general and artistic director at Glimmerglass, filling the gap left by Kellogg's departure. The company has yet to name a replacement for Robertson.
Glimmerglass' 2007 season will feature four new opera productions, all based on the myth of Orpheus: Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice, Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld and Philip Glass's Orphée. The company will also give two concert performances of Haydn's infrequently performed take on the Orpheus myth, L'Anima del Filosofo. 
More information can be found at Glimmerglass and the OPERA NEWS Archives.
Send breaking news to our Online Editor
Send feedback to OPERA NEWS
|
