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OTSL ANNOUNCES NEW APPOINTMENTS TO COMPANY LEADERSHIP
James Robinson will succeed Colin Graham as OTSL Artistic Director
Timothy O’Leary will assume new Executive Director position
OTSL Board Chairman Donna Wilkinson and General Director Charles MacKay have announced two significant appointments to the leadership team at Opera Theatre. Stage director James Robinson has been named Artistic Director, and New York City Opera Director of Operations Timothy O’Leary will assume a new position as OTSL’s Executive Director. They join MacKay and music director Stephen Lord at the helm of the company.
“These appointments represent a major step forward for Opera Theatre,” said Donna Wilkinson. “James Robinson is widely acclaimed both here and abroad, and a worthy successor to Colin Graham. Timothy O’Leary is a top administrator with the wide experience to take on the management role envisioned in the long-range plan adopted by the board in 2003.”
“James Robinson is one of the finest stage directors in the US today,” said Charles MacKay. “He has an extensive history with Opera Theatre, and is well known to our board and patrons through his wonderful productions in a range of styles. He is skilled at putting together co-productions with other companies, and in working within budget limits with an array of talented artists. Tim O’Leary is one of the rising stars in the next generation of arts administrators, and we are fortunate to be able to bring him to St. Louis to strengthen the already extraordinary management team at Opera Theatre.”
| James Robinson, whose term as artistic director of Opera Colorado ends in September 2008, will be in residence as OTSL Artistic Director-Designate for most of the 2008 season. He will assume full responsibilities as Artistic Director starting in 2009, when he directs Opera Theatre’s landmark new performing version of John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles; he will be involved in repertory planning starting |  |
| with the 2010 season. Colin Graham was OTSL’s artistic director from 1985 until his death in the spring of 2007. Robinson has directed some of OTSL’s most successful productions, making his mainstage debut with Handel’s Radamisto (2000) and continuing with Miss Havisham’s Fire (2001), Nixon in China (2004), Street Scene (2006) and La traviata (2007). His first OTSL assignment was his stage directing debut with OTSL’s touring production of Menotti’s Chip and His Dog in 1991. He has staged acclaimed productions for major companies in New York, Santa Fe, Houston, San Francisco, Seattle and many more, as well as productions in Ireland, Sweden and Australia. His La boheme for New York City Opera was featured on “Live from Lincoln Center” on PBS, and his Minnesota Opera Turandot went on to more than 25 companies in North America. | |
| Timothy O’Leary has most recently been Director of Operations and Planning at New York City Opera, in charge of labor relations and reporting to NYCO’s board chair and executive director as liaison to all departments of the $40 million company. He has negotiated and managed all NYCO co-productions and rentals, and produced the company’s brilliantly successful Opera-For-All audience development |  |
| program. A former fundraising consultant, he has also been managing director of Gotham Chamber Opera and manager of institutional gifts at NYCO. O’Leary has been a stage director for companies including New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Florida Grand Opera, and San Francisco Opera’s Merola and Western Opera Theater programs. He will be Opera Theatre’s new Executive Director; he will assume an active role in company fundraising in addition to overseeing some administrative functions. He takes up his new position in January 2008. | |
Opera
Theatre's
2008 Season:
May 24th - June 29th
The Tales of Hoffmann
Jacques Offenbach
Madame Butterfly
Giacomo Puccini
Una Cosa Rara
Vicente Martin Y Soler
Troilus and Cressida
Willian Walton
Opera Theatre is a sustaining member of the Arts & Education Council
and receives major support from the National Endowment for the Arts,
the Regional Arts Commission and Missouri Arts Council.
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