MarkStreshinsky OperaStageDirector

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Resume

LibrettistDirector:

• Winter 2012 Machine / Suprynowicz/Streshinsky

ProductionsDirected:

Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia Valencia, Spain

• Fall 2010 Manon / Massenet

Seattle Opera

• Fall 2009 La Traviata / Verdi

Yale Opera   

• Spring 2011 Dido and Aeneas / Purcell
• Spring 2011 The Scarf / Hoiby
• Spring 2010 Le Rossignol / Stravinsky
• Spring 2010 La tragedie de Carmen / Bizet-Constant

The Dallas Opera

• Winter 2009 La Boheme / Puccini                     
• Fall 2004  La Cenerentola / Rossini       

Lyric Opera of Kansas City

• Spring 2011 Le Nozze di Figaro / Mozart
• Fall 2008 Guilio Cesare / Handel

Cincinnati Opera

• Summer 2011 Eugene Onegin / Tchaikovsky
• Summer 2010 Gala Concert
• Summer 2009 Carmen / Bizet
• Summer 2008 Lucie de Lammermoor / Donizetti
• Summer 2006 The Tales of Hoffmann / Offenbach

Florida Grand Opera 

• Spring 2007 Anna Karenina (world premiere) / David Carlson and Colin Graham

 Opera Theatre of St. Louis

• Spring/Summer 2007 Anna Karenina

Michigan Opera Theater (Detroit)

• Fall 2007  Le Nozze di Figaro / Mozart
• Spring 2006  La Cenerentola / Rossini

Boston Lyric Opera

• Fall 2005 Lucie de Lammermoor / Donizetti               

Livermore Valley Opera

• Fall 2010 Don Giovanni / Mozart 

Sacramento Opera

• Spring 2008 Tosca / Puccini           

Berkeley Opera:

• Fall 2011 Ariadne auf Naxos
• Spring 2011 The Carmen Fixation / Bizet
• Fall 2010 Xerxes/ Handel
• Summer 2010 Legend of the Ring / Wagner
• Winter 2010 Don Giovanni/ Mozart
• Spring 2006 Chrysalis/ Suprynowicz (world premier)                           
• Spring 2004 Acis and Galatea / Handel
• Winter 2004 Legend of the Ring (3 hour Ring cycle) / Wagner
• Spring 2003 Eugene Onegin / Tchaikovsky

Sarasota Opera:

• Winter 1998 Faust / Gounod

OtherDirectingExperience

• Stage Director for two fire extravaganzas produced at "The Crucible" in Oakland, California:
  • "The Firebird" and "Dracul"
• For Opera Manhattan: San Giovanni Battista/Cecilia
  
• Massenet’s Cleopatre  Semi Staged at Alice Tully Hall
  
• La Cenerentola: Productions for School Children for New York City Opera and Nashville Opera
  
• Semi Staged Production of La Cenerentola in New York for Orchestra of St. Lukes
  
• Second Casts at San Francisco Opera: La Traviata, La Cenerentola, L’Italiana in Algeri

AssistantDirector

• San Francisco Opera
• Los Angeles Opera
• Seattle Opera
• New York City Opera
• Dallas Opera
• Opera Theatre of St. Louis
• Opera Omaha
• Indianapolis Opera
• Nashville Opera 

TeachingExperience

• Work with students of The San Francisco Conservatory of Music in the Audition Prep Class 2008/2009
• Faculty for West Coast Opera Works 2009: Dramatic coaching and scenes
  
• Major scenes programs at Des Moines Metro Opera with young artists in 1998 and 1999
  
• Private Dramatic Coaching with young artists at Des Moines Metro Opera 1998 and 1999
  
• Scenes program at Opera North (New Hampshire) 1996 and 1997

UniversityEducation

Currently working toward a certificate in Non-Profit Management at California State University, East Bay

Bachelor of Theater Arts – The University of California at Santa Cruz

• Technical Theater Emphasis with studies in Stage Management and Lighting Design
• First two years spent as a music major: Cello

StageManagement

Approximately 9 years experience before transitioning to assistant director and then director.

OtherExperience

• Two tours with Western Opera theater in the early 1990s
• Two summers as a technical apprentice with San Francisco Opera's Merola Program

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