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  • Home > Crew Members > James Smith

    James Smith

    Among the director’s most important credits are Amahl and the Night Visitors (Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Trinity Lyric Opera in San Francisco); Pagliacci (Pocket Opera of New York); La bohème (West Bay Opera in Palo Alto); David Conte and Nick Giardini’s The Gift of the Magi (Trinity Lyric Opera – West Coast premiere); Hans Krasá and Tony Kushner’s Brundibár (Commonwealth Opera in Amherst, Massachusetts); L’enfant et les sortilèges (Opera North); both Trouble in Tahiti and Bizet’s Le Docteur Miracle (French Institute/Manhattan Opera Theatre); and numerous operas at Hofstra University. He served as co-director for Pùnkitititi! (Salzburg Marionette Theater) and a film of Carmen (Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music). Whether as assistant or associate director, he has been involved in productions for The Dallas Opera, Juilliard, Trinity Wall Street, The Kitchen (New York), the New York Philharmonic, the NDRElbphilhharmonie Orchester, and the major opera companies of San Francisco, Santa Fe, St. Louis, Portland, Omaha, and Denver.

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