Boulder Music Institute is pleased to announce we are accepting applications for 10 student directors for our 2014 program. Daniel Helfgot will provide hands on training to those interested in opera staging apprenticeships. By assisting the directing process the participants will partake in discussions from concept to performance. Score analysis, character definition, period and style choices are part of the work study as well as all aspects of communication with cast, chorus, and crew members, and interaction with conductors and designers.
Daniel Helfgot
Director
Daniel Helfgot’s experience goes back to his own assistantships with the likes of Paul Hager and Jean-Pierre Ponnelle at opera houses such as the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and the San Francisco Opera. Since then, he has directed productions for the National Opera of Albania, the famed Teatro Colón as well as the Teatro Argentino in Argentina, National Opera of Costa Rica, Aaland in Finland, Dortmund in Germany, Opera Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico, with extended work in Austria, Canada, Sweden, Israel, France, and Italy. In the US he has directed productions for companies from Guam to Maine and from Montana to Florida including such opera companies as Baltimore, Festival Opera (California), Chattanooga, Eugene, Virginia Opera, Knoxville, Memphis, Shreveport, Orlando, Sacramento, Spring Opera and Western Opera Theater of San Francisco, Utah Opera, Utah Festival Opera, among many others.
He has also held academic positions such as the leadership of the Vocal and Vocal Accompanying Program of the Music Academy of the West, a guest professorship at the Musikhochschule of the Vienna University, Austria, as well as numerous appointments throughout US campuses and conservatories.
His credits include well over 200 productions of a repertoire of over 100 operas, operettas and zarzuelas from the Baroque to world premieres, opera workshops to international opera houses as well as several US companies from Guam to Maine and from Montana to Florida including such opera companies as Baltimore, Festival Opera (California), Chattanooga, Eugene, Virginia Opera, Knoxville, Memphis, Shreveport, Orlando, Sacramento, Spring Opera and Western Opera Theater of San Francisco, Utah Opera, Utah Festival Opera, among many others.
Director
Daniel Helfgot’s experience goes back to his own assistantships with the likes of Paul Hager and Jean-Pierre Ponnelle at opera houses such as the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and the San Francisco Opera. Since then, he has directed productions for the National Opera of Albania, the famed Teatro Colón as well as the Teatro Argentino in Argentina, National Opera of Costa Rica, Aaland in Finland, Dortmund in Germany, Opera Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico, with extended work in Austria, Canada, Sweden, Israel, France, and Italy. In the US he has directed productions for companies from Guam to Maine and from Montana to Florida including such opera companies as Baltimore, Festival Opera (California), Chattanooga, Eugene, Virginia Opera, Knoxville, Memphis, Shreveport, Orlando, Sacramento, Spring Opera and Western Opera Theater of San Francisco, Utah Opera, Utah Festival Opera, among many others.
He has also held academic positions such as the leadership of the Vocal and Vocal Accompanying Program of the Music Academy of the West, a guest professorship at the Musikhochschule of the Vienna University, Austria, as well as numerous appointments throughout US campuses and conservatories.
His credits include well over 200 productions of a repertoire of over 100 operas, operettas and zarzuelas from the Baroque to world premieres, opera workshops to international opera houses as well as several US companies from Guam to Maine and from Montana to Florida including such opera companies as Baltimore, Festival Opera (California), Chattanooga, Eugene, Virginia Opera, Knoxville, Memphis, Shreveport, Orlando, Sacramento, Spring Opera and Western Opera Theater of San Francisco, Utah Opera, Utah Festival Opera, among many others.