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NEW 2011 SEASON OF MAGIC!

The magic and excitement of live opera awaits you! Burst into summer with the passion of Donizetti's Elixir of Love and take a magic ride into fall with the classic tale of Little Red Riding Hood. READ MORE—

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Gregory Buchalter, Artistic Director of Opera Fairbanks, lives in New York

City but will return to Fairbanks in July to conduct Mozart’s Don Giovanni

featuring several of his Metropolitan Opera colleagues. Previously for

Opera Fairbanks he has conducted Tosca, La Centerentola and a Gala

performance celebrating Alaska's 50th anniversary as a state and featuring

Vivica Genaux. Also Artistic Director of Opera Camerata of Washington,

he just conducted Faust with them. Mr. Buchalter has conducted Salomé

at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in Finland with Maria Ewing and Helga

Dernesch, Die Fledermaus at the Vienna Volksoper, Mozart's Entfuhrung

aus dem Serail at the Spoleto Festival. He was the first American to

conduct with the Kazakstan State Opera; the performances there included

Mr. Buchalter has been Chorus Master of the Santa Fe Opera, the Bregenz Festival in Austria, Theater des Westens in Berlin and the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra.

He has been a member of the music staff of the Metropolitan Opera for almost 20 years.  There he has worked extensively with the Metropolitan Opera Chorus and has been Chorus Master at the Met for several productions including the telecast of Franco Zeffirelli’s production of Don Giovanni and Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess.  In addition to working as a cover conductor at the Met, the position of “Maestro di Banda” was created at the MET for him.  He has also prepared several world premiers at the MET:  John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles, Philip Glass’ The Voyage and John Harbison’s The Great Gatsby.  In the latter, Mr. Buchalter created the on-stage part of the jazz band conductor.

February 1992, Mr. Buchalter founded his own chorus, “Choros Aristos”, and led them in a performance of Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle at New York’s Merkin Hall in commemoration of that composer’s 200th birthday.  In 1995, he conducted the “Metropolitan Consort”, a group comprised of members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in a highly successful concert of Baroque music.  For several seasons he has been guest conductor with the New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble where he has conducted such works as Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky.  As both pianist and conductor, Mr. Buchalter has toured such places as Cairo, Kuwait, Malaysia, Turkey and Hong Kong. As a lecturer and speaker he has been invited to hold Master Classes throughout the United States.

RUN OF THE VALKYRIES:

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Artistic / Music Director

Gregory Buchalter:

Maestro Buchalter hails from the Metropolitan Opera. READ MORE—

Opera Fairbanks is supported  by a grant from the Alaska State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the City of Fairbanks Bed Tax with a re-grant by the Fairbanks Arts Association. Pike's Waterfront Lodge is the official hotel of Opera Fairbanks. Click here for more info about sponsoring a production, season or advertising in our 2011 production programs.

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