- Professor of Music, Jacobs School of Music
Education:
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M.S.
, Indiana University, 1975
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B.A.
, St. Peter's College, 1968
Background:
Vincent Liotta is co-founder of the Utah Festival Opera and a former faculty member of University of Nebraska at Omaha and University of Washington in Seattle. He has acted as stage director for productions at Chicago Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Canadian Opera, Teatro Colon, Vienna Staatsoper, Santa Fe Opera, and Los Angeles Music Center; for world premieres of Coyote Tales (Mollicone), a new version of Greenwillow (Frank Loesser), and Too Many Sopranos (Penhorwood); and for the American premiere of Dragon of Wantley.
Professor Liotta's recent IU Opera Theater productions include McTeague (Bolcom), The Ghosts of Versailles (Corigliano), Ariadne auf Naxos
and
Arabella (R. Strauss), Falstaff (Verdi), and The Rake's Progress (Stravinsky). His original works for the musical theatre include a new libretto for Victor Herbert's operetta Naughty Marietta; and Viva Verdi, a biographical evening about the life and work of Guiseppe Verdi.
Contact Information:
(812) 855-3214
vliotta AT
indiana DOT
edu
Musical Arts Center, Room MC324
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Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom will return to the Indiana University Opera Theater in February for the first collegiate production of A View from the Bridge, his full-scale opera adapted from the Arthur Miller tragedy. It's the second time Bolcom has awarded IU Opera the distinction of being the first collegiate program to produce one of his works. In 1996, IU Opera delivered a critically acclaimed performance of the composer's McTeague.
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