BRIAN CLAY LUEDLOFF, stage director

Brian Clay Luedloff has directed Cavalleria Rusticana and Gianni Schicchi for Connecticut Opera, as well as Le Nozze di Figaro for University of Northern Colorado, where he is Director of Opera Theatre. Recent seasons have included Amahl and the Night Visitors and Die Fledermaus for LyriCo, the light opera company of St. Louis, where he was the founding Artistic Director; l’Elisir d’amore and Lucia di Lammermoor for Connecticut Opera; the musicals I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, and Romance/Romance, and the comedy All in the Timing for the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, Maine; La Bohéme and The Thunder of Horses for Opera Theatre of St. Louis; Lucia di Lammermoor and La Traviata for St. Louis’ Union Avenue Opera Theatre; and The Barber of Seville, The Daughter of the Regiment and Hänsel and Gretel for Boston Lyric/Opera New England.

In 2005 he served as Renata Scotto’s associate director for Madama Butterfly for The Dallas Opera. He has also served on the staging staff at Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Washington National Opera and Houston Grand Opera. Mr. Luedloff made his Off-Broadway directing debut with Don Thompson’s critically acclaimed Tibet Does Not Exist; other New York credits include Carter Allen Winkle’s In The Third Person, and a sell-out Off-Off-Broadway revival of Martin Sherman’s Bent. While an MFA Directing Fellow at Boston University’s School for the Arts, he taught and directed in the school’s renowned Opera Institute and the Theatre Arts Division.

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