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DIRECTOR

Award-winning Stage Director Scott Skiba has led more than 80 new productions, earning recognition for his imaginative stage direction and dynamic physical approach to storytelling that is “masterful…ingenious…first-rate...vivid and emotionally charged."

For Cleveland Opera Theater Scott has directed La Bohème, Madama Butterfly, Le nozze di FigaroA Streetcar Named Desire, Tosca, La Rondine, Gianni Schicchi, Il Tabarro, Pagliacci, The Threepenny Opera, the Cleveland premiere of Evan Mack and Joshua McGuire’s The Ghosts of Gatsby for The National Opera Association in a co-production with Baldwin Wallace Conservatory, and the World Premiere of La Casa de Bernarda Alba by Griffin Candey with libretto by OBIE Award Winner Caridad Svich a co-commission with Baldwin Wallace Conservatory.

 

Scott has made multiple company debuts in recent years including Roméo et Juliette for Pensacola Opera, Macbeth for Opera Tampa, The Ballad of Baby Doe  with Toledo Opera, Faust and Il Barbiere di Siviglia  with Natchez Festival of Music, The Student Prince at Opera Grand Rapids, Carmen for Opera Western Reserve, Suor Angelica and La Bohème for Mobile Opera, and Don Giovanni and La Tragédie de Carmen for Hawaii Performing Arts Festival.  Scott is the recently appointed Production Director for Opera Western Reserve.

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THEN

Opera OnDemand 1/21

(Curtis Opera Theatre)

A Taste of Traviata 10/20

(Opera Western Reserve)

Pelléas + Mélisande   2/20

(New Adaptation - Baldwin Wallace Conservatory)

 

 

The Ghosts of Gatsby   1/20

(National Opera Association / Baldwin Wallace)

 

La Bohème   9/19

(Cleveland Opera Theater)

NOW

Alcina 10/21

(Baldwin Wallace Conservatory)

Don Giovanni   11/21

(Indianapolis Opera)

Romeo + Juliet   2/20

(New Adaptation - Opera Western Reserve)

NEXT

Operas in Place    12/21

World Premiere Micro Operas

Baldwin Wallace / Cleveland Opera Theater /

On Site Opera

Amahl and The Night Visitors  12/22

(Cleveland Opera Theater)

La Casa de Bernarda Alba   2/22

World Premiere Production

(Baldwin Wallace / Cleveland Opera Theater)

Le nozze di Figaro  3/22

(Baldwin Wallace Conservatory)

 

Orpheus in The Underworld   7/22

(Hawaii Performing Arts Festival) 

Carmen  9 /22

(Cleveland Opera Theater)

Sweeney Todd  10/22

(Helena Symphony)

"Skiba's first-rate stage direction was vivid and emotionally charged.""

-The Plain Dealer

"Skiba used every inch of space to maximum effect" 

-coolcleveland.com

"Skiba found and brought out a variety of subtle nuances in his staging"

- Cleveland Classical

"Skiba had the cast racing about the stage and around

the theater with Swiss clock-like precision."

- The Plain Dealer

© 2021 Scott Skiba

"Skiba’s canny direction and use of space allowed facial expressions and the smallest of gestures to read clearly to the back row."

-Cleveland Classical

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