Mark Streshinsky

Opera Stage Director

"A visual delight from beginning to end. In an opera that is difficult to stage, this performance had one tour de force after another... through the seamless and imaginative staging by Mark Streshinsky." -Cincinnati Enquirer

Written and directed by Mark Streshinsky with music by Clark Suprynowicz, Machine had its premiere in January of 2012 at The Crucible in Oakland, CA

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NEWS:

On May 6th I will host a tribute to SF Opera chorister Sigmund Siegel and the 20 year anniversary of the Oscar winning documentary In the Shadow of the Stars. Tickets available on the West Edge Website

For the Opera America conference in Philadelphia this June, I will be a panelist for two sessions

In July I will direct Daron Hagen's Vera of Las Vegas as part of West Edge Opera's "City of Sin"

In August/September I will be in Kansas City to direct LOKC's season opener Madama Butterfly. I can't wait to work in the new theater.

RECENT:

Last year was a great year.

Higlights were:

• West Edge productions of Xerxes and Ariadne.
• My European debut at the opera of Valencia, Spain directing Manon.
• An amazing experience creating a new modern production of Le Nozze di Figaro for Kansas City.
• A Return to Yale to work with the graduate students.
• Directing both Nathan Gunn and William Burden in their first Eugene Onegin for Cincinnati Opera.

Mark Streshinsky, Artistic Director www.westedgeopera.org

Selected Productions for West Edge Opera: Please click for photos

Ariadne auf Naxos

Xerxes

Legend of The Ring

Don Giovanni

Chrysalis