Tara Faircloth Resume/Bio

Tara Faircloth

Stage Director

Upcoming/Resume/Bio

Upcoming

Samson et Dalila	Opera Colorado	2011
Dido and Aeneas	Festival de Musica Barroca, Mexico	2011
Lucia di Lammermoor (AD for John Doyle)	Houston Grand Opera	2011
Ariadne auf Naxos (AD for John Cox)	Houston Grand Opera	2011
La Dirindina	Ars Lyrica Houston	2010
Orpheus in the Underworld (AD for Marc Astafan)	Central City Opera	2010
Face on the Barroom Floor	Central City Opera	2010
Peter Grimes (AD for Neil Armfield)	Houston Grand Opera	2010
(Project to be named)	Utah Opera	2010

Directing Experience

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
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
Hansel & Gretel	Tulsa Opera	09
How Nanita Learned to Make Flan	Houston Grand 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

Houston Grand Opera	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	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
Amarillo Opera	La Boheme	Mary Jane Johnson	2005
	Gianni Schicchi/ I Pagliacci	Ben Spierman	2004

Stage director Tara Faircloth’s work is seen with increasing frequency in opera houses around the nation. In recent seasons she directed Die Zauberflöte and Hansel & Gretel for Tulsa Opera, Carmen, Don Pasquale and La Traviata for Amarillo Opera, and her own production of Dido & Aeneas for Mercury Baroque in collaboration with the Dominic Walsh Dance Theater. The baroque repertoire is of special interest to Ms. Faircloth, who made her directorial debut with period orchestra Ars Lyrica Houston’s production of Cain: Il primo omicidio in 2005, and has since designed and directed a number of shows for the company, including Charpentier’s Actéon and La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers. In 2006, she was selected for the single directing apprenticeship at San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program.

Ms. Faircloth is on the directing staff at Houston Grand Opera, and has worked extensively as an assistant director with such companies as Dallas Opera, Utah Symphony & Opera, Central City Opera, and Atlanta Opera, adding Opera Colorado to that list in the upcoming season. She is increasingly sought out for her skills as an adapter of full scale operas, and has created such pieces as the “Mini” Grapes of Wrath, One Enchanted Evening (an operetta pastiche), and the “Mini” Magic Flute, commissions of the Utah Symphony & Opera and Opera in the Ozarks.

In addition to a busy assisting schedule, Ms. Faircloth's upcoming directorial engagements this season include newly designed productions of Les Plaisirs de Versailles with Ars Lyrica Houston, How Nanita Learned to Make Flan for Houston Grand Opera's education department, and her own adaptation of Die Zauberflöte, the "Mini" Magic Flute for Utah Symphony & Opera.