Stage Director: Opera-Theatre-Musicals
Production Conceived and Directed by: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Christian Capocaccia
Composers: Igor Stravinsky / Ruggero Leoncavallo …
July 10, 2021OperaComments Off on Pulcinella/I Pagliacci: Pittsburgh Festival OperaComposer: Giocomo Puccini
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Domenico Boyajian
A Bronzeville Bohème: Set in Post War 1940’s in the historic Bronzeville neighborhood of Milwaukee with an entirely African American Cast.
See more information about my Socially Responsible production …
May 7, 2021OperaComments Off on La Bohème: Florentine OperaComposed by Giuseppe Verdi
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Robin Stamper
Staging with Enhanced Health and Safety Protocols…
March 12, 2021OperaComments Off on Il Trovatore: Opera Tampa Composed by Gaetano Donizetti
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Giuliano Carella
Due to public health concerns and developments with the coronavirus (COVID-19), this production was canceled.
See Photos and Videos from the 2019 Pittsburgh Opera Production.
See Photos of the …
The Melba Opera Trust: Melbourne, Australia
Canceled due to travel restrictions and public health concerns with the Covid-19 Pandemic
“Helping singers to stand out from the hundreds of others during auditions is one of the primary goals for Chuck during …
August 15, 2020OperaComments Off on Antipodes Tour 2020: Australia (Canceled-Covid-19)Production Conceived and Directed by: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Christian Capocaccia
Composers: Igor Stravinsky / Ruggero Leoncavallo
Due to public health concerns and developments with the coronavirus (COVID-19), this production has been postponed to summer 2021. …
July 11, 2020OperaComments Off on Pulcinella/I Pagliacci: Pittsburgh Festival Opera (Postponed-Covid 19)Composer: Richard Strauss
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Steven White
ARIZONA OPERA TO CANCEL ITS APRIL PRODUCTION OF ARIADNE AUF NAXOS
THE DECISION WAS MADE …
April 3, 2020OperaComments Off on Ariadne auf Naxos: Arizona Opera (Canceled-Covid-19)Composed by Gaetano Donizetti
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Gary Wedow
…April 26, 2019OperaComments Off on Don Pasquale: Pittsburgh OperaA Trip to Old Hollywood (And Some Great Voices) in Don Pasquale
Pittsburgh Opera’s new production of Don Pasquale [goes] beyond opera-lovers-only territory and turns it into something that
Composed by Giuseppe Verdi
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Ramòn Tebar
…December 19, 2018OperaComments Off on Aida: Opera NaplesHudson’s dramatic values were clean and amazingly physical. Amneris is not afraid to slap people around, and Aida’s reminiscence of her homeland’s beauty is surprisingly sensual…We would not underestimate
Composer: Ruggero Leoncavallo
Conductor: Christian Reif
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Top 5 Operas To See This Weekend – North America (11/30-12/2): San Jose Opera’s PAGILACCI. -Opera Wire
…November 18, 2018OperaComments Off on Pagliacci: San Jose OperaLeoncavallo Meets Hitchcock: Stage director Chuck Hudson and a strongly theatrical cast have
Melba Opera Trust: Sydney
at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA)
Pacific Opera: Sydney
Composed by Gaetano Donizetti
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Joe Illick
…April 28, 2018OperaComments Off on Don Pasquale: Fort Worth OperaTheaterJones TOP 10 of 2018! Fort Worth Opera’s 1950s Hollywood-inspired production of ‘Don Pasquale’ was one of Gregory Sullivan Isaacs favorite music and opera events of the year. Congrats
L’Enfant et les Sortilèges
* Composer: Maurice Ravel
La Voix Humaine
* Composer: Francis Poulenc
Stage Director: Fenlon Lamb
Guest Artist / Movement Director: Chuck Hudson
University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music…
March 23, 2018OperaComments Off on L’Enfant / La Voix Humaine: UMKC Conservatory of Music3rd Season in New Zealand
Produced by the Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation
December 2017
* The Kiri Programme: Auckland, NZ
…December 4, 2017OperaComments Off on Antipodes Tour 2017: New ZealandFoundation launches second Kiri Programme with optimism: As ARIA went to press the third module was in progress with leading
Composed by Gaetano Donizetti
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Jonathan Brandani
…October 7, 2017OperaComments Off on Don Pasquale: Minnesota OperaMusic holds its own in Minnesota Opera’s amazing staging of ‘Don Pasquale’: Have you ever been to an opera and walked out humming the concept?…Donizetti wove enough beauty
Composer: Gioacchino Rossini
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Mark Morash
…August 3, 2017OperaComments Off on La Cenerentola: San Francisco Opera Merola ProgramCenerentola served up with laughs and poignancy
For a combination of poignant emotion and flat-out comedic brilliance, you can’t do much better than “La Cenerentola”… Thursday’s performance of the opera
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Craig Kier
…July 1, 2017OperaComments Off on Falstaff: Opera SaratogaModifying a production concept seen before at Arizona Opera, Chuck Hudson directed an admirably lively, if occasionally frenetic, Tudor-set show with plenty of comic detail… The audience rightly cheered the
Composed by Gaetano Donizetti
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Joseph Colaneri
…March 25, 2017OperaComments Off on Don Pasquale: Atlanta OperaThe Atlanta Opera smartly transforms Donizetti’s comedy classic “Don Pasquale”…Although this is Atlanta Opera’s first foray with the vocally challenging bel canto comedy, this production is hardly a
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Karen Keltner
…October 14, 2016OperaComments Off on La Bohème: Hawaii Opera TheatreWomen dominate strong cast in HOT’s superb ‘La Boheme’: Hawai‘i Opera Theatre opened its 2016-17 season with a charming production of Puccini’s “La Boheme” … that is at once personal
6th Season in Australia
Produced by The Melba Opera Trust
April-May 2016
* The Melba Opera Trust Mentor Program: Melbourne
* David Butler Voice Studio: Melbourne
* Gary May Voice Studio: Melbourne
…April 25, 2016OperaComments Off on Antipodes Tour 2016: Australia & New ZealandThanks to the support of Joseph Sambrook and
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Eric Melear
…April 1, 2016OperaComments Off on Falstaff: Arizona OperaTO CLOSE OUT ITS SEASON, Arizona Opera did very well by the serious comic challenge of Verdi’s final masterwork…Chuck Hudson’s imaginative staging—on a splendidly evoked onstage galleried Elizabethan
5th Season in Australia
Composed by Gaetano Donizetti
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Richard Buckley
…July 9, 2015OperaComments Off on Don Pasquale: Cincinnati OperaSight gags, silent movies propel Don Pasquale: Cincinnati Opera’s lively new production, set in the golden age of Hollywood, lifted the silliness to a new level, and often had
Ainadamar–Fountain of Tears
Composer: Osvaldo Golijov
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Scott Terrell
Lexington Opera House
Presented by Saykaly Garbulinska Artist-in-Residence Program with Kentucky Opera Studio Artists, UK Opera Theatre, and additional regional artistic partners and Special Guest Artist Jesus …
April 17, 2015OperaComments Off on Ainadamar: Lexington PhilharmonicComposer: Georges Bizet
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Brian Salesky
…February 13, 2015OperaComments Off on Carmen: Knoxville OperaVery impressive to me was the difficulty of the physical actions required while singing sometimes complex vocals, whether dancing, sitting or lying down.…stage director Chuck Hudson seems to have
4th Season in Australia
For the third year in a row, Chuck Hudson received a grant from the Dame Joan Sutherland Fund of the American-Australian Association to travel to Australia. This season’s residency at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music was …
August 5, 2014OperaComments Off on Antipodes Tour 2014: AustraliaComposer: Pauline Viardot
Based on the original fairy tale by Charles Perrault.
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Music Director: Aurelien Eulert
Choreographer: Catherine Turocy
Translation of spoken text by Aurelien Eulert and Chuck Hudson…
July 19, 2014OperaComments Off on Viardot’s Cendrillon: Hawaii Performing Arts FestivalComposed by Gaetano Donizetti
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Gary Wedow
…April 12, 2014OperaComments Off on Don Pasquale: Arizona OperaHollywood-themed production is a musical and comic delight: Opera aficionados tired of the old “park and bark” won’t want to miss Arizona Opera’s animated take on “Don Pasquale” set
Composed by: Gioachino Rossini
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Nayden Todorov
Libretto in French by Étienne de Jouy and Hippolyte Bis
After the play “William Tell” by Friedrich Schiller
…February 22, 2014OperaComments Off on William Tell: Wichita Grand OperaIn presenting this difficult and massive opera, Wichita Grand Opera did
Composer: Benjamin Britten
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Brian Garman
Carnegie-Mellon School of Music-Opera Theatre…
October 23, 2013OperaComments Off on Albert Herring: Carnegie-Mellon Opera Theater3rd Season in Australia
For the second year in a row, Chuck Hudson received a grant from the Dame Joan Sutherland Fund of the American-Australian Association to travel to Australia to present his Intensive Master Class Series and to Coach …
August 8, 2013OperaComments Off on Antipodes Tour 2013: AustraliaAn Opera Showcase Production
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Music Director: Raymond Blackwell
Carnegie-Mellon School of Music-Opera Theater
…March 22, 2013OperaComments Off on Lovers & Dreams: Carnegie-Mellon Opera TheaterYou did with our students what I hoped you would do. You exposed and brought them to an amazing level of characterization and
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Richard Buckley
Austin Lyric Opera: Austin, Texas
Winner of the 2012-2013 Austin Critics’ Table Award for Best Opera Production
…January 31, 2013OperaComments Off on Le Nozze di Figaro: Austin Lyric OperaStrong voices, excellent acting…fabulously entertaining:
In Austin Lyric Opera’s “Figaro,”…the pleasures are
Originally called Der Wilderspenstigen Zahmung
Based on The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
Composer: Hermann Goetz
Text Adaptation: Chuck Hudson
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Brett Weymark
Geoff Gibbs Theatre: Perth, Australia
Western Australia Acadamy of Performing Arts…
2nd Season in Australia and 1st Season in New Zealand
Chuck Hudson received a grant from the Dame Joan Sutherland Fund of the American-Australian Association to travel to Australia to present his Intensive Master Class Series and to Coach Audition …
August 25, 2012OperaComments Off on Antipodes Tour 2012: Australia & New ZealandComposer: Giuseppe Verdi
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Jim Caraher
Saratoga Springs, NY
…July 6, 2012OperaComments Off on Rigoletto: Opera SaratogaOpera Saratoga opens strongly with ‘Rigoletto’: Opera Saratoga opened its season at the Spa Little Theatre with Verdi’s “Rigoletto.” It was a strong production with everything at
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor:John Mario DiCostanzo
…April 27, 2012OperaComments Off on The Magic Flute: Tri-Cities OperaStrong principals help make TCO’s ‘Flute’ a winner. How can you lose with Mozart? You can’t. I attended the final dress rehearsal Wednesday evening for Tri-Cities Opera’s production of
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Timm Rolek
…February 24, 2012OperaComments Off on Rigoletto: Sacramento OperaSacramento Opera returns to full-length production with tasteful ‘Rigoletto’. (With) the return of former music director Timm Rolek as conductor and Chuck Hudson directing…this production signals that the company is
La Lingua della Lirica
Artistic Associate and Stage Director
Regia: Chuck Hudson
Direzione Musicale: Ubaldo Fabbri, Glenn Morton, e Michael Sheetz
Un Castello di Voci: Palazzo Viviani-Castello di Montegridolfo
Voci nel Montefeltro: Magazzino del Sale, Cervia
800Festival Saludecio-150 …
Chuck Hudson received a grant from the American Consulate in Perth to travel to Australia to present his Intensive Master Class Series and to Coach Audition Arias in February 2011:
Jonathan Sheffer’s Camera Obscura
Tom Cipullo’s Lucy
The Gala Opening of ARTISPHERE Performance Space
Urban Arias, Washington D.C.
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Robert Wood…
La Lingua della Lirica
Artistic Associate and Stage Director
Regia: Chuck Hudson
Direzione Musicale: Ubaldo Fabbri, Glenn Morton, e Michael Sheetz
Un Castello di Voci: Palazzo Viviani-Castello di Montegridolfo
Voci nel Montefeltro: Magazzino del Sale, Cervia
Gran Concerto …
June 30, 2010
San Francisco Opera Merola Program
Chuck Hudson Public Master Class
Herbst Theatre–War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
…June 30, 2010OperaComments Off on Merola Public Master Class, San Francisco OperaIn a short amount of time, Hudson so successfully focused each singer’s energy that every single one sang better and
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Music Director: Carrie-Ann Matheson…
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Timm Rolek
…May 8, 2009OperaComments Off on La Bohème: Sacramento OperaChuck Hudson’s strong and crisp direction gave much dramatic heft to the work’s tragic moments and comic brilliance to lighthearted ones…Hudson’s stage direction was masterly in the tricky second act
Composer: Jules Massenet
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Ronald Zollman
…February 6, 2009OperaComments Off on Cendrillon: IU Opera TheatreInventive staging by Chuck Hudson and a solid performance combined to create a magical evening…Hudson’s staging was highlighted by the magical dream garden created by the fairies and sprites using
Composer: Englebert Humperdinck
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Dean Williamson
…October 31, 2008OperaComments Off on Hansel und Gretel: Opera ClevelandOpera Cleveland serves up a hearty and graceful “Hansel and Gretel”. Chuck Hudson’s fluid staging kept the events moving blissfully along, with fine attention to characterization and atmosphere…the inventive episode
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Mark Gibson
Received a National Opera Association award.
…May 15, 2008OperaComments Off on La Bohème: Cincinnati Conservatory of Music‘La Bohème’ plays up drama…Hudson’s quest for meaning goes beyond words “to make the invisible visible.” Mary Ellen Hutton, Cincinnati Enquirer
Composer: Benjamin Britten
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Timm Rolek
…February 22, 2008OperaComments Off on Turn of the Screw: Sacramento OperaDaring ‘Turn of the Screw’ thrills with a fine cast: In the Sacramento Opera’s deeply engaging and highly provocative production of Benjamin Britten’s “The Turn of the Screw,” sexual awakening
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson…
November 17, 2007OperaComments Off on Don Pasquale: Connecticut Grand OperaComposer: Giacomo Puccini
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Kathy Kelly
…August 17, 2007OperaComments Off on La Bohème: Berkshire OperaThe Berkshire Opera’s first production of Puccini’s little masterpiece about love and friendship in the springtime of life succeeds under Chuck Hudson’s staging for a simple reason: It seems real,
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson…
July 15, 2007OperaComments Off on La Traviata: SEFOS / Bar Harbor Music SocietyComposer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: James Albritten
…March 23, 2007OperaComments Off on Così fan tutte: Piedmont OperaPowerful Ending: Piedmont Opera gives ‘Cosi’ some clarity–stage director Chuck Hudson clarifies the less-than-clear conclusion of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte. Hudson’s brilliant take on an opera:…Almost everything the singers
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Louis Menendez
Review: ‘Madama Butterfly’ soars with simplicity
…November 11, 2006OperaComments Off on Madama Butterfly: Shreveport OperaStillness has a way of making sudden gestures seem profound. On Saturday, the Shreveport Opera’s production of “Madama Butterfly” soared because it made the
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Kemal Kahn
…August 20, 2006OperaComments Off on Le Nozze di Figaro: Cape Town Opera (South Africa)Overall credit must obviously go to a production team, who have worked long and hard to achieve so fluent a production, especially one which moves at this pace. Chuck
Composed by Gioacchino Rossini
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Robert Wood
…July 14, 2006OperaComments Off on Le Comte Ory: Wolf Trap OperaImagine Boccaccio channeled by Monty Python and you’ll have some idea of the hilarity of Wolf Trap Opera Company’s production of Rossini’s Le Comte Ory…The splendid 20-member cast revels
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson…
May 20, 2006OperaComments Off on Sing to Love: Florida Grand Opera Resident Artist ShowcaseComposer: Jules Massenet
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Laurent Pillot
…April 26, 2006OperaComments Off on Cendrillon: Manhattan School of Music Opera TheaterMassenet has always gone down easy…or at least it did…at the second performance of the Manhattan School of Music Opera Theater’s perfectly enjoyable production…Chuck Hudson, the director, stuck clearly to
Associate Stage Director: Chuck Hudson (with Mark Lamos)
Conductor: Stewart Robertson…
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: William Lumpkin…
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Original Text Adaptation: Chuck Hudson
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Cal Stewart Kellogg
Presented in collaboration with The Puccini Festival Foundation and the Province of Lucca, Italy.
…October 28, 2005OperaComments Off on Le Donne di Giacomo Puccini: Opera Santa Barbara/Puccini Festival Foundation (Italy)The first-rate production featured…a terrifically strong cast of five sopranos
Composer: Gioacchino Rossini
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Timm Rolek
…September 16, 2005OperaComments Off on The Barber of Seville: Sacramento OperaThe Barber of Seville…will keep you laughing for the better part of the night… Director Chuck Hudson never veered into slapstick or overextended the joke; he knew when to trust
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Philip Wharton’s Two Saintes Caught in the Same Act
Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette
Bizet’s Carmen
Giannini’s Taming of the Shrew
Floyd’s Of Mice and Men
…
August 14, 2005OperaComments Off on Apprentice Artist Scenes Program: Santa Fe OperaComposer: Giuseppe Verdi
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Will Crutchfield…
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
…May 21, 2005OperaComments Off on Make Our Garden Grow: Florida Grand Opera Resident Artist ShowcaseAided by Chuck Hudson’s lively direction, these opera excerpts granted the artists space to create
more rounded characterizations than the usual short, isolated arias. Lawrence A. Johnson, Florida Sun-Sentinel
Composer: Franz Lehár
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Michael Borowitz
Nevada Opera’s “Merry Widow” waltzes into Reno’s Pioneer Center
…March 18, 2005OperaComments Off on The Merry Widow: Nevada OperaFranz Lehar’s sumptuously tuneful “The Merry Widow” … a production that looks ravishing, sounds glorious and entertains to the nth degree
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Cristofer Macatsoris
After a wonderful AVA directorial debut last season with L’elisir d’amore, Chuck Hudson returns to direct Così. AVA Opera Theater
…November 5, 2004OperaComments Off on Così fan tutte: AVA Opera TheaterVibrant singing, acting lift Academy of Vocal Arts’ `Cosi
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Mozart’s Idomeneo
Gounod’s Faust
Rossini’s Barbiere de Siviglia…
Composed by Gaetano Donizetti
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Dean Williamson
…August 6, 2004OperaComments Off on Don Pasquale: San Francisco Opera Merola ProgramEverything about the production cohered, from the ingeniously funny staging by director Chuck Hudson to the musical performance, conducted by Dean Williamson and sung with tremendous vivacity by the
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson…
May 22, 2004OperaComments Off on Resident Artist Showcase II: Florida Grand OperaStage Director: Chuck Hudson…
May 14, 2004OperaComments Off on Resident Artist Showcase I: Florida Grand OperaComposer: Gaetano Donizetti
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Cristofer Macatsoris
…April 29, 2004OperaComments Off on L’elisir d’amore: AVA Opera Theater‘The Elixir of Love’ shines at American Vocal Academy…Stage director Chuck Hudson lets the action unfold in a natural way. He draws honest, unaffected characterizations from his cast (who) transition
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Valéry Ryvkin
…February 28, 2004OperaComments Off on Così fan tutte: Opera Santa BarbaraSensitive to musical nuance, Mr. Hudson made some wonderful connections between the score and detailed stage business. Delightful…moments between lovers at the end of the first act that had
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson…
January 30, 2004OperaComments Off on Opera Scenes Program: USC ThorntonComposer: Englebert Humperdinck
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Dean Williamson…
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Scenes Program:
Puccini’s La Boheme
Gluck’s Orfeo ed Eurydice
Delibes’ Lakme
Handel’s Semele
Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor
Master Teacher: Arias and Action…
August 18, 2003OperaComments Off on Apprentice Artist Scenes Program: Santa Fe OperaAmerican Professional Premier
Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Antony Walker
Choreographer: Catherine Turocy
…July 18, 2003OperaComments Off on Dardanus: Wolf Trap Opera CompanyTalk about neglected genius! The Wolf Trap Opera Company ( production of Rameau’s opera “Dardanus”)… compensated for bygone neglect with a sparkling performance, worthy
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Will Crutchfield
…April 5, 2003OperaComments Off on La Traviata: Minnesota OperaJudging from Saturday night’s opening, this “La Traviata” is anything but a perfunctory reading of an operatic chestnut…Chuck Hudson’s direction is refreshingly naturalistic for an opera that could easily slip
Composer: Franz Lehár
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Martin Fischer-Dieskau
…November 9, 2002OperaComments Off on The Merry Widow: Minnesota OperaA crème brûlée of a production…deliciously sweet… directed by Chuck Hudson amid a set reminiscent of a Viennese chocolate box (The Merry Widow) consistently leans upon the twin crowd pleasers
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Scenes Program:
Verdi’s MacBeth
Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffman
Britten’s Rape of Lucretia
Master Teacher: Arias and Action…
August 11, 2002OperaComments Off on Apprentice Artist Scenes Program: Santa Fe OperaComposer: Gaetano Donizetti
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Dean Williamson
…June 21, 2002OperaComments Off on Don Pasquale: Wolf Trap Opera CompanyThat the staging works as well as it does owes much to the cast of flexible young singers and to director Chuck Hudson’s well-gauged, highly detailed approach to physical comedy…And
After a play by August von Kotzebue
Composer : Albert Lortzing
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Steven Osgood…
Text and Music: Carlisle Floyd
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Robert Ashens
…March 8, 2002OperaComments Off on Susannah: Eugene OperaRisk pays off for opera company
Eugene Opera did an excellent job of bringing this riveting opera to the stage…the production on Friday night was what any opera
Composer: Georges Bizet
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Dean Williamson…
Composer: Gioacchino Rossini
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Emmanuel Plasson
…March 31, 2001OperaComments Off on The Barber of Seville: Minnesota OperaBarber of Seville [was] a witty confection: Barber is a warhorse, but director Chuck Hudson gives it a new patina. His emphasis on physical busyness, including an amazing amount of
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Timothy Lindberg
…October 28, 2000OperaComments Off on The Marriage of Figaro: Opera IdahoFigaro has explosively lively staging by Chuck Hudson…[with] fully believable character[s] whose every gesture worked toward greater expressive depth. Melinda Bargreen, The Seattle Times
An Opera-Theatre Production
Written by Joann Farías after a story by Chuck Hudson
Orchestration: Dean Williamson
Production Concept and Direction: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Timothy Lindberg…
An Entertainment based on the poems of Anne Sexton
Composer: Conrad Susa
Production Concept and Direction: Chuck Hudson…
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Dean Williamson
…November 13, 1999OperaComments Off on The Marriage of Figaro: Seattle OperaFigaro has explosively lively staging by Chuck Hudson…[with] fully believable character[s] whose every gesture worked toward greater expressive depth. Melinda Bargreen, The Seattle Times
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Dean Williamson
…November 15, 1998OperaComments Off on Così fan tutte: Seattle OperaThe director of Così, Chuck Hudson [approached] the piece rather like the current Metropolitan Opera production, [playing] up its comedy with very few dark overtones. The audience loved it,
Composer: Umberto Giordano
Stage Director: Bernard Uzan
Movement Director: Chuck Hudson…
Composer: Henry Mollicone
Stage Director: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Dean Williamson…
An Opera-Theatre Production
Written by Joann Farías after a story by Chuck Hudson
Orchestration: Dean Williamson
Production Concept and Direction: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Dean Williamson…
An Opera-Theatre Production
Written by Joann Farías after a story by Chuck Hudson
Orchestration: Dean Williamson
Production Concept and Direction: Chuck Hudson
Conductor: Dean Williamson…
Composer: Gaetano Donezetti
Director of Choral Movement: Chuck Hudson
Corporeal Actor (Various Roles)…