The Barber of Seville – Pre-Opera Talk – Hank Hammet

HANK HAMMETT is an artist teacher, award-winning director and acting coach who has trained singing actors in the organic fields of music, theatre arts, acting technique and strategic performance skills for over two decades. Hammett has worked on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in television and film, and continues to work at the world’s most prestigious opera houses and festivals, including The Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Le Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie (Brussels), Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona), De Nederlandse Opera (Amsterdam), Opéra de Montréal, Bilbao Opera, Concert Royal, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Los Angeles Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Glimmerglass Opera, The Dallas Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Portland Opera and Boston Lyric Opera.  “A native of Dallas, Hammett is Director of Lyric Theatre at SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts and the director of The Dallas Opera’s current production of Dr. Miracle.