Carl Ratner

“I left with a feeling of exultation....[The production] renews [one's] faith in the vitality and immortal relevance of opera for the modern world.”  OPERA MONTHLY

CURRENT POSITIONS

Opera Naples (Florida)

Artistic and Management Consultant 2005-present
Western Michigan University Director of Opera 2001-present
 

POSTIONS HELD

Bay View Music Festival Resident Opera Director 2009
Chicago Opera Theater Artistic Director 1994-1999
Metropolitan Opera Assistant Stage Director 1989-1990
San Francisco Opera Supernumerary Coordinator 1985-1986
Chamber Opera Chicago Artistic Director 1984-2003
Lyric Opera of Chicago Assistant Stage Director 1982-1984
English National Opera Assistant to Director John Copley 1981-1982
Royal Opera Covent Garden Assistant to Director John Copley 1981
New York City Opera Special Assistant to Guest Stage Directors 1981-1982
Santa Fe Opera Assistant Stage Director 1980
Spoleto Festival Italy Musical Assistant 1978
Munich Staatsoper Assistant to Director Gian Carlo Menotti 1978

OPERA STAGE DIRECTION

 

The Old Maid and the Thief (Menotti)
The Magic Flute (Mozart)
Madama Butterfly (Puccini)
Nozze di Figaro (Mozart)
Rigoletto (Verdi)
Die Fledermaus gala (J. Strauss)
Madama Butterfly (Puccini)
Madama Butterfly (Puccini)
Amahl and the Night Visitors (Menotti)
L’enfant Prodigue (Debussy)
Nozze di Figaro (Mozart)
Susannah (Floyd)
La Bohème (Puccini)
Gianni Schicchi (Puccini)
Buoso’s Ghost (Ching)
Madama Butterfly (Puccini)
Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach)
Bon Appétit (Hoiby)
Grand Duchess of Gérolstein (Offenbach)
Italian Girl in Algiers (Rossini)
Ariadne auf Naxos (R. Strauss)
The Tender Land (Copland)
Ballad of Baby Doe (Moore)
Bluebeard’s Castle (Bartok)
Susanna’s Secret (Wolf-Ferrari)
Il tabarro (Puccini)
The Magic Flute (Mozart)
Falstaff (Verdi)
La Bohème (Puccini)
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
Werther (Massenet)
Tosca (Puccini)
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
Gianni Schicchi (Puccini)
The Lifework of Juan Diaz (L. Rapchak)
The Hero (Menotti)
The World of the Moon (Haydn)
Madame Butterfly (Puccini)
La Bohème (Puccini)
Barber of Seville (Rossini)
La Traviata (Verdi)
Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
Falstaff (Verdi)
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Rigoletto (Verdi)
Bluebeard’s Castle (Bartok)
Falstaff (Verdi)
Il trittico (Puccini)
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
Allonso and Valleria (Johnson)
Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
La Traviata (Verdi)
La Bohème (Puccini)

St. Petersburg Conservatory, Russia
Opera Naples, Florida
Opera at the Acorn Theatre, Michigan
Bay View Music Festival, Michigan
Opera Naples, Florida
Opera Naples, Florida
Battle Creek Symphony, Michigan
Village Players Theatre, Illinois
Opera Naples, Florida
Opera Naples, Florida
Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre
DuPage Opera Theatre
Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre
Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago Opera Theater
Cedar Rapids Opera Theater
Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago Opera Theater
Chamber Opera Chicago
Chamber Opera Chicago
Chamber Opera Chicago
Chamber Opera Chicago
Chamber Opera Chicago
Chamber Opera Chicago
Chamber Opera Chicago
Chamber Opera Chicago
Chamber Opera Chicago
Berkeley Opera, California
Chamber Opera Chicago
Chamber Opera Chicago
Chamber Opera Chicago
Chamber Opera Chicago
Chamber Opera Chicago
Chamber Opera Chicago
Jacksonville (Florida) Lyric Theatre
Chamber Opera Chicago
Chamber Opera Chicago
Berkeley Opera, California
Chamber Opera Chicago
Chamber Opera Chicago
Chamber Opera Chicago
Chamber Opera Chicago
Chamber Opera Chicago
Chamber Opera Chicago
Chamber Opera Chicago
Sarasota Opera Apprentice Program
Chamber Opera Chicago
Chamber Opera Chicago
Chamber Opera Chicago

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