MADAME BUTTERFLY ARTISTIC STAFF

DOUGLAS KINNEY FROST, conductor

Douglas Kinney Frost, Director of Music at Syracuse Opera, has conducted
orchestras and opera productions throughout the world. Highlights include performances with Teatro Colon, Russian Federal Orchestra in Moscow, National Orchestra of Korea, Orquestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Utah Symphony and Opera, Bellas Artes, Grand Teton Music Festival, Kharkov Philharmonic, Florida Grand Opera, and Virginia Symphony. A leader in the training of young opera singers and conductors, he has guest conducted and taught at many universities and conservatories, including the Boston premiere of Little Women at New England Conservatory, and he was the first guest conductor of opera in the history of the
University of Michigan. He has held a ten-year affiliation with the Conductors Retreat at
Medomak; and in addition to creating a resident artist program for Syracuse Opera,
he has been a key participant in shaping opera young artist programs at Florida Grand Opera,
Utah Opera, and Virginia Opera. Last season he inaugurated an opera conducting
training program with Ithaca College, the first program of its kind in the US.
His education shows are performed across the country, and have been seen for
years on PBS. He has a reputation for creative audience development initiatives,
and has served on national discussion and lecture panels for OPERA America,
League of American Orchestras, and the National Endowment for the Arts,
as well as state and local arts councils.

Last season he served as Associate Conductor for Britten's Turn of the Screw for
LAOpera and James Conlon; he returns to the Company next season by
invitation of Maestro Conlon in the same role for Albert Herring. His work as a
nationally acclaimed chorus master can be seen on the recent Naxos recording
of John Adam's Nixon in China.