Tara Faircloth Resume/Bio

Tara Faircloth

Stage Director

Upcoming/Resume/Bio

Upcoming


Il Barbiere di Siviglia	Utah Opera	2013
H.M.S Pinafore	Arizona Opera	2013
L'elisir d'amore	Martina Arroyo's Prelude to Performance, NYC	2013
La Traviata (AD) La Clemenza di Tito (AD)	Lyric Opera of Chicago	2013 2014

Directing Experience

La fille du regiment	Tulsa Opera	2012
Acis and Galatea	Ars Lyrica Houston	2012
Gala Anniversary Performance	Houston Grand Opera	2012
The Rake's Progress	Wolf Trap Opera	2012
The Bricklayer (world premiere)	Houston Grand Opera	2012
Il Trovatore	Opera Colorado	2012
Bernstein MASS	St Cecilia Society, Houston	2012
Rigoletto	Utah Opera	2012
Sweeney Todd	Wolf Trap Opera	2011
Il Barbiere di Siviglia	Tulsa Opera	2011
Her Name Means the Sea (world premiere)	Houston Grand Opera	2011
La Dirindina	Ars Lyrica Houston	2010
Les Plaisirs de Versailles	Ars Lyrica Houston	2010
Mini Magic Flute	Utah Opera	2010
Rigoletto (Miller Theatre prod)	Houston Grand Opera	2009
The Face on the Barroom Floor	Central City Opera	2009, 2010
Hansel & Gretel	Tulsa Opera	2009
Savitri	Grace Note Series	2009
Noye's Fludde	Tulsa Opera	2009
	Grace Note Series	2006
Dido & Aeneas	Mercury Baroque	2008
Die Zauberflote	Tulsa Opera	2008
Carmen	Amarillo Opera	2007
Don Pasquale	Amarillo Opera	2007
La Traviata	Amarillo Opera	2006
Die Fledermaus	Opera in the Heights	2006
La Descente d'Orphee aux Enfers	Ars Lyrica Houston	2005
The Little Flute	Opera in the Ozarks	2005
Acteon	Ars Lyrica Houston	2005
Cain: il primo Omicidio	Ars Lyrica Houston	2004

Educational Tours & Scenes Programs
The Velveteen Rabbit	Houston Grand Opera	11
Romeo & Juliet	Houston Grand Opera	11
A Way Home	Houston Grand Opera	10
How Nanita Learned to Make Flan	Houston Grand Opera	09
"Sugar & Spice"	Utah Opera	10
Hansel & Gretel	Tulsa Opera	09
Opera a la Carte	Central City Opera	07,08
Grand Finale	Merola Opera Program	06
"Mini" Grapes of Wrath "One Enchanted Evening"	Utah Opera Utah Opera	06 08

Assistant Directing Experience

Lyric Opera of Chicago	Hansel & Gretel	Eric Einhorn (Richard Jones)	2012
Houston Grand Opera	Ariadne auf Naxos	John Cox	2011
	Lucia di Lammermoor	John Doyle	2011
	Peter Grimes	Neil Armfield	2010
	Turn of the Screw	Neil Armfield	2010
	Lohengrin	Daniel Slater	2009
	Rigoletto	Lindy Hume	2009
Colorado Opera	Tosca	Ron Daniels	2010
Atlanta Opera	Madama Butterfly	Bernard Uzan	2008
Central City Opera	Orpheus in the Underworld	Marc Astafan	2010
	Rinaldo	Marc Astafan	2009
	Susannah	Michael Ehrman	2008
	La Traviata	Justin Way	2007
Dallas Opera	Tosca	Guilio Chazalettes	2008
	Macbeth	Bernard Uzan	2007
	La Rondine	Michael Scarola	2007
	Il Barbiere di Siviglia	Helena Binder	2006
	Carmen	Markus Richter	2004
Utah Opera	Tosca	Stephanie Sundine	2008
	La Traviata	Pam Berlin	2006
	La Rondine	Michael Scarola	2006
Merola Opera Program	Il Matrimonio Segreto	Nicola Bowie	2006
Mercury Baroque	Acis & Galatea	Dominic Walsh	2006
	Don Quichotte	Kate Pogue	2005
	Le Devin du Village	Kate Pogue/ Catherine Turocy	2004

Biography

Stage director Tara Faircloth’s work has been seen in opera houses around the nation. Critics hailed her “incisive, tightly meshed direction” (Opera News) for The Rake's Progress at Wolf Trap Opera, calling it “a simple and elegant production” (The Washington Post). She has directed two world premieres with the Houston Grand Opera's East+West series (Her Name Means The Sea and The Bricklayer) and has a thriving career with more standard material in regional houses such as Utah Opera, Tulsa Opera and Opera Colorado (Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Rigoletto, Die Zauberflöte, Hänsel & Gretel, etc.). The baroque repertoire is of special interest to Ms. Faircloth, who made her directorial debut with Ars Lyrica Houston’s production of Cain: Il primo omicidio in 2003, and has since designed and directed a number of shows for the company, including Charpentier’s Actéon and La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers. She has created productions of Dido & Aeneas for Ars Lyrica at the Festival di Musica Barroca in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and for Mercury Baroque in collaboration with the Dominic Walsh Dance Theater. This summer, Ms. Faircloth makes her New York debut, directing L'elisir d'amore for the Martina Arroyo Foundation's Prelude to Performance. This fall she makes her debut at Arizona Opera where she will choreograph and direct H.M.S Pinafore, her first venture in the G&S repertoire. and has been on staff at major companies such as Houston Grand Opera, Dallas Opera, and Central City Opera.

Ms. Faircloth is currently a staff director at Lyric Opera of Chicago, and as such, has worked on some of the most complicated operas in the repertoire, assisting international directors and preparing cover casts of some of the best performers in our industry. She has worked extensively on directing staff with such companies as Houston Grand Opera, Central City Opera, Dallas Opera, Utah Opera, Atlanta Opera and Opera Colorado. She is increasingly sought out for her skills as an adapter and has created such pieces as the“Mini” Grapes of Wrath, One Enchanted Evening (an operetta pastiche), and the “Mini” Magic Flute, commissions of Opera in the Ozarks and Utah Symphony & Opera. She has a private coaching studio in Houston, Texas, and will be directing an evening of scenes for the outstanding graduate voice program at Rice University this winter.