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Biography
David Bamberger, librettist, director, translator, teacher, and arts administrator, has staged some 200 productions on three continents in styles from grand opera to musicals. Internationally he staged Rigoletto and Lucia di Lammermoor in Santiago, Chile, and La Bohème and La Cenerentola for the Israel Vocal Arts Institute. His coast-to-coast work in America features such productions as The Barber of Seville at Lincoln Center (New York City Opera) and The Ballad of Baby Doe (Los Angeles Music Center). Stars he has directed include Roberta Peters, Beverly Sills, Justino Diaz, and Sherrill Milnes. A founder of Cleveland Opera, Bamberger was the company's General Director from 1976 to 2004, presenting works from the entire history of musical theatre and commissioning Stewart Copeland's Holy Blood and Crescent Moon (1989), the first grand opera by a major popular music figure since Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (1934). Bamberger wrote the libretto for Copeland's The Cask of Amontillado, which had its New York premiere in January 2016 and, for the 75th Anniversary of the birth of Anne Frank. he created Come to Me in Dreams based on the songs of Lori Laitman. Other highlights include obtaining Jerome Robbins' permission for Cleveland Opera to be the only opera company in the Western hemisphere to re-create the original choreography of West Side Story, and securing The Three Tenors in Concert to celebrate Cleveland Opera's 25th anniversary. Since 2004, Bamberger has been Artistic Director of the Opera Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music, presenting a distinctive repertoire including G.F. Handel's Serse, Hector Berlioz's Beatrice and Benedict and Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos. On the non-musical stage, Bamberger directed the first major New York production of Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus at Colonus and a national tour of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. His writings include articles for Opera News and best-selling textbooks for religious schools. His two-volume history of the Jews based on Abba Eban's My People, banned in the Soviet Union, has since the collapse of the Iron Curtain been used in Russian translation in both Russia and Israel.
Productions
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