David Lefkowich, Stage Director
David Lefkowich is an internationally acclaimed stage director and choreographer who has enjoyed success with companies including The Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Minnesota Opera, and Glimmerglass. He teaches dramatic preparation and acting at CAA.
David's directing credits include Idomeneo, Le Nozze di Figaro, L’Histoire du Soldat, and Don Giovanni at the Ravinia Music Festival with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Maestro James Conlon conducting. David also directed L’Histoire du Soldat at the Juilliard School, with Maestro Conlon. He made his European debut directing Le Portrait de Manon at the Gran Teatre Liceu in Barcelona, Spain and followed with The Rake’s Progress at La Monnaie in Brussels, Belgium. Other credits include directing and choreographing Simon Boccanegra (Kentucky Opera), La fille du regiment and Acis and Galatea (Madison Opera), Salome(Minnesota Opera), Roméo et Juliette (Florida Grand Opera, Minnesota Opera, Virginia Opera, Opera Tampa, Seagle Music Colony), Tosca at Boston Lyric Opera, Cosi Fan Tutte (Opera Saratoga), La Traviata (Lake George Opera), Le Portrait de Manon (Glimmerglass Opera), and Il Trovatore (New Orleans Opera, Fort Worth Opera). He was also thrilled to fight direct the world premieres of Appomattox (Philip Glass) at San Francisco Opera, and Miss Lonelyhearts at the Juilliard Opera Center, La fanciulla del west at the New York City Opera and the New York off-Broadway run of A Clockwork Orange.
David is a guest artist and performs master classes at several Young Artist programs and universities including the Atelier Lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal, Florida Grand Opera Young Artist Program, Glimmerglass Opera Young American Artist Program, the Juilliard School, McGill School of Music and Ithaca College. A graduate from Northwestern University with a Bachelor’s of Science in Theatre, David has a certificate from École Jacques-Lecoq in Paris, France. David is currently the Artistic Director of the Mill City Summer Opera in Minneapolis, Minnesota where he directed the company’s inaugural production of Pagliacci and followed with Il Barbiere di Siviglia.
For additional information on David, please visit www.davidlefkowich.com.
David's directing credits include Idomeneo, Le Nozze di Figaro, L’Histoire du Soldat, and Don Giovanni at the Ravinia Music Festival with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Maestro James Conlon conducting. David also directed L’Histoire du Soldat at the Juilliard School, with Maestro Conlon. He made his European debut directing Le Portrait de Manon at the Gran Teatre Liceu in Barcelona, Spain and followed with The Rake’s Progress at La Monnaie in Brussels, Belgium. Other credits include directing and choreographing Simon Boccanegra (Kentucky Opera), La fille du regiment and Acis and Galatea (Madison Opera), Salome(Minnesota Opera), Roméo et Juliette (Florida Grand Opera, Minnesota Opera, Virginia Opera, Opera Tampa, Seagle Music Colony), Tosca at Boston Lyric Opera, Cosi Fan Tutte (Opera Saratoga), La Traviata (Lake George Opera), Le Portrait de Manon (Glimmerglass Opera), and Il Trovatore (New Orleans Opera, Fort Worth Opera). He was also thrilled to fight direct the world premieres of Appomattox (Philip Glass) at San Francisco Opera, and Miss Lonelyhearts at the Juilliard Opera Center, La fanciulla del west at the New York City Opera and the New York off-Broadway run of A Clockwork Orange.
David is a guest artist and performs master classes at several Young Artist programs and universities including the Atelier Lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal, Florida Grand Opera Young Artist Program, Glimmerglass Opera Young American Artist Program, the Juilliard School, McGill School of Music and Ithaca College. A graduate from Northwestern University with a Bachelor’s of Science in Theatre, David has a certificate from École Jacques-Lecoq in Paris, France. David is currently the Artistic Director of the Mill City Summer Opera in Minneapolis, Minnesota where he directed the company’s inaugural production of Pagliacci and followed with Il Barbiere di Siviglia.
For additional information on David, please visit www.davidlefkowich.com.
