MARC ASTAFAN - Stage Director
 
Regional Opera Productions

 

 

Central City Opera Rinaldo 2009
Syracuse Opera Romeo & Juliet 2009
Virginia Opera Tosca 2009
New Opera St. Louis Samson et Dalila 2008
Opera Providence Die Fledermaus 2008
Nevada Opera Hansel & Gretel 2008
Connecticut Opera Tosca 2007
Boston Opera Collaborative
 Dialogues of the Carmelites 2007
Central City Opera Cendrillon 2007
Nevada Opera La Cenerentola 2007
Central City Opera Don Giovanni 2006
Central City Opera/Colorado Symphony The Mikado 2006
Anchorage Opera Madame Butterfly 2006
New England Chamber Opera The Scarf 2006
New England Chamber Opera The Seven Deadly Sins 2005
Central City Opera/Colorado Symphony Pirates of Penzance 2005
Anchorage Opera La Traviata 2004
Central City Opera/Colorado Symphony

HMS Pinafore

2004

New England Chamber Opera The Boor 2004
New England Chamber Opera Trouble In Tahiti 2003
Lyric Opera of Waco La Bohème 2002
Opera Theatre of Philadelphia La Traviata 2000
Gulf Coast Symphony Amahl and the Night Visitors 2000
Opera Orchestra of New York Die Zauberflöte 1999
Opera Illinois La Bohème 1999
Nevada Opera Il Trovatore 1998
Central City Opera Tosca 1998
Opera Company of El Paso Rigoletto 1997
Eugene Opera Die Zauberflöte 1996
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Staged Concerts / Scenes Programs

 

 

Juilliard Opera Theatre The Rape of Lucretia 2008
Newton Symphony Orchestra Hansel and Gretel 2008
Atlantic Coast Opera Festival Opera Scenes Gala 2004
Colorado Symphony/Central City Opera The Jerome Kern Songbook 2002
Boston Baroque Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria 2002
Pittsburgh Opera Center An Evening of Opera Scenes 2000
Music Academy of the West Opera Scenes 1999
Central City Opera Opera in the Rockies 1997
Colorado Symphony/Central City Opera A Night At The Opera 1995
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Young Artist / Apprentice Productions

 

 

Temple University Opera Theatre Le Nozze di Figaro 2009
Tanglewood Music Center Trouble in Tahiti 2002
Florida State University Opera Candide 2002
Tanglewood Music Center L'Enfant et les sortileges 2001
Bay View Music Festival Le Nozze di Figaro 2000
Pittsburgh Opera Center Così fan tutte 1999
Pittsburgh Opera Center I Capuleti e i Montecchi 1998
Central City Opera The Seven Deadly Sins 1997
Central City Opera The Face on the Barroom Floor 1996
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New England Conservatory Opera Theatre

 

L'Egisto 2008    
Summer & Smoke 2007    
Gianni Schicchi 2006    
Les Mamelles de Tiresias 2006    
Little Women 2005 A Midsummer Night's Dream 1999
Cendrillon 2005 The Merry Wives of Windsor 1998
Die Zauberflöte 2004 Les Mamelles de Tirésias 1998
La Calisto 2004 The Padrone, premiere 1997
Candide 2003 Don Pasquale 1997
The Tender Land 2003 The Italian Straw Hat 1996
Seijo , premiere 2003 The Automobile Graveyard , premiere 1995
La Perichole 2000    
The Rape of Lucretia 2000    
The Threepenny Opera 1999    

Assistant Stage Director

 

 

Metropolitan Opera Le Nozze di Figaro (Directed Performances) 2006
  Tosca (Directed Performances) 2002
  Parade (L'Enfant, Mamelles) 2002
  Madama Butterfly 2001
  Eugene Onegin 2001
  Nabucco (New Production) 2001
  Manon 2001
  Samson et Dalila 2000
  Die Zauberflöte 2000
Boston Symphony Orchestra Madama Butterfly 1999
Michigan Opera Theatre L'Elisir d'Amore 1998
  Faust 1998
  Il Barbiere di Siviglia 1993
Central City Opera Madama Butterfly 2005
  Madama Butterfly 1997
  Rigoletto 1996
  Pique Dame 1995
  Manon 1994
Boston Lyric Opera Tosca 1996
  Falstaff 1996
Chautauqua Opera Le Comte Ory 1992
  Madama Butterfly 1992
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Assistant Stage Manager

 

 

Boston Lyric Opera Carmen 1994
  I Puritani 1993
  Wuthering Heights 1993
Santa Fe Opera The Tsar Has His Photograph Taken 1993
  La Bohème (Assistant to the Director ) 1993
  Xerxes 1993
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Teaching Experience

 

 

Temple University Opera Theater Artiist-in-Residence. Director of Opera Workshop. Acting & Audition Techniques Instructor

2009-2010
New England Conservatory Director of Opera Production / Resident Stage Director 2003-2008
New England Conservatory Interim Director of Opera Studies 2002-2003
Bay View Music Festival Acting 2000
Music Academy of the West Scene Study & Movement 1999
Central City Opera Scene Study 1994-1997
New England Conservatory Associate Director of Opera, Stage Techniques, Acting

1994-2000

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Education

 

Boston Conservatory of Music, Boston MA 1993
Master of Music, Musical Theatre-Concentration in Directing  
   
College of St. Rose, Albany NY 1989
Bachelor of Science, Music Education-Concentration in Voice  

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