This season for HGO, Stephen Wadsworth directs Il trovatore. He debuted at HGO in 1983 as co-author with Leonard Berstein of A Quiet Place, and he returned to direct La Clemenza di Tito for the company’s Mozart Festival in 1991. Wadsworth has directed on and off Broadway, in London’s West End, and in many opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera (Rodelinda, Boris Godunov, Iphigénie en Tauride), Teatro alla Scala, Vienna State Opera, London’s Royal Ballet and Opera, San Francisco Opera, and many others, notably Seattle Opera, where his famous staging of Wagner’s Ring Cycle played for many years. Wadsworth’s productions of classic plays by Aeschylus, Shakespeare, Molière, Beaumarchais, and Goldoni––often in his own landmark translations––have established him as a master of classical style. His books Marivaux: Three Plays and Molière: Don Juan are published by Smith and Kraus; the government of France named him a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for services to French literature. Wadsworth is co-author of the operas Amelia (music by Daron Hagen) and The Flood (music by Korine Fujiwara). An acting teacher and mentor to many of opera’s current stars, he taught for 38 years in the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and is The James S. Marcus Faculty Fellow at The Juilliard School, where he developed the first and only intensive acting course for singers in the world––the cutting-edge AD (Artist Diploma) program.  He also takes one directing student a year at Juilliard, where he has trained some of the top young opera directors working today.