| Jonathon Field |
| Director |
Read a review of Jonathon's Madama Butterfly
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Read a review of Jonathon's Madama Butterfly |
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Stage Director Jonathon Field has become one of
America’s more versatile and popular stage directors. A
trailblazer in the world of opera, Mr. Field is fascinated with
traditional as well as modern stage techniques. He has developed
and used video-projected scenery for over twenty-five years in
productions that have been called “brilliant”,
“dazzling” and “riveting”. Mr. Field is
currently the Director of the Oberlin Opera Theater and an Associate
Professor at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where his productions
this season include Evangelista’s Excercies de Style, The
Bartered Bride, La Clemenza di Tito, and The Little Match Girl Passion.
Next season, Mr. Field’s operas at Oberlin will include
Bolcom’s A Marriage, followed by a double bill of Ravel’s
L’Heure Espagnol and L’Enfant et les Sortileges. Last season, Mr. Field directed The Barber of Seville at Sugar Creek Festival, followed by La Traviata at Fremont Opera. Mr. Field recently collaborated on Ariadne auf Naxos with Toledo Opera, for which he received rave reviews. This summer, Mr. Field returns to Sugar Creek to direct The Daughter of the Regiment. Mr. Field directed the American premiere of Lost Highway, an opera based on the David Lynch film, that played to sold-out performances at the Miller Theater in New York. He directed the world premiere of the jazz opera Leave Me Alone in a partnership between Oberlin Conservatory and Real Time Opera, which was one of the first operas to broadcast live on the internet. His productions for Lyric Opera of Chicago of Trouble in Tahiti, Gianni Schicchi, The Old Maid and the Thief and The Spanish Hour were successfully revived at the Illinois Humanities Festival. He directed touring productions of La Cenerentola and Die Fledermaus for San Francisco Opera’s Western Opera Theatre, which played in over twenty states. Over the past eight years Mr. Field directed ten productions with Arizona Opera, being deemed by the press “their most perceptive stage director.” From 2000 through 2006 he served as Artistic Director of Lyric Opera Cleveland, where he presented the operas of Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti and the Ohio premieres of works by John Adams, Mark Adamo and Philip Glass. Mr. Field received a Northern Ohio Live Award for his work on Don Giovanni in Cleveland, which was called, “An electrifying production that has come to be the hallmark of Field’s tenure.” Mr. Field has been praised for his international work as well, having directed The Riverboat Show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Dido and Aeneas at Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Il Trittico and Menotti’s Amalia al Ballo at the Urbania Festival in Italy. He has collaborated with such esteemed artists as Teresa Zylis-Gara, Jerome Hines, Pablo Elvira, Giorgio Tozzi and Angelina Reux. Mr. Field’s expertise extends from the avant garde to musical comedy. In 1996, he introduced computer-generated scenery to the opera world in a production of Candide at West Bay Opera in Silicon Valley, CA, with assistance from Apple, Inc. The press called the show, “virtual Voltaire - the backgrounds are as varied as the story.” He pioneered the use of video-projected scenery in productions of The Turn of the Screw, Tales of Hoffmann and Der Freischütz. In the realm of operetta and musical theatre, Mr. Field 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 Francisco. For the Oakland Symphony he translated and choreographed Stravinsky’s Pulcinella, using members of the Oakland Ballet. 5/20/11 |