MADAME BUTTERFLY ARTISTIC STAFF

TREVORE ROSS, stage director

Stage Director Trevore Ross is earning vast attention as one of opera's new vibrant young stage directors. He currently serves on the directing staff of Los Angeles Opera as well as having previously been the assistant resident stage director for Florida Grand Opera for three consecutive seasons. While at Florida Grand Opera he worked on such productions as Bliss Hebert's Turandot, Renata Scotto's La Traviata, Bernard Uzan's Romeo et Juliette, as well as many others.

Over the past few seasons noted directing engagements have included Aida for the Atlanta Opera and Opera Carolina, Rigoletto at the Opera Company of North Carolina, Otello at Opera Carolina, L'Italiana in Algeri for Palm Beach Opera, Don Giovanni at Connecticut Opera, as well as Le Nozze di Figaro for Atlanta Opera and Faust at Opera New Jersey. He also returned to the Los Angeles Opera directing staff for the American Premiere of David Cronenberg's The Fly, Tamerlano with Placido Domingo, Il Turco in Italia, and the World Premiere of Il Postino by the composer Daniel Catan, a production he later revived for it's European Premiere at Vienna's Theatre an der Wien.

Additional assistant director career highlights include San Francisco Opera's World Premiere production of Phillip Glass' Appomattox, Bliss Hebert and Allen Klein's Aida that opened the season at the new Carnival Performing Arts Center in Miami, and productions with Chautauqua Opera, Sarasota Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Minnesota Opera, Arizona Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre and Palm Beach Opera.
In the 2011-2012 season he directs Madame Butterfly at Opera on the James, and returns to Los Angeles Opera for productions of Eugene Onegin, Albert Herring, and La Boheme.

A native of South Carolina, in the past ten years of his career he has worked with over 35 different directors and 55 plus productions across the country.  Starting out his directorial life Mr. Ross was chosen as an Opera America Fellow, which led him to several residencies across the nation in the 2001/2002 season.