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 Brian Clay Luedloff
Director of Opera Theatre
Assistant Professor of Music
Frasier 150
970.351.2330
brian.luedloff@unco.edu
Mr. Luedloff comes to UNC from his present appointment as Artistic Director for LyriCo, the light opera company of St. Louis. This season Mr. Luedloff staged Amahl and the Night Visitors for LyriCo, Lucia di Lammermoor for St. Louis’ Union Avenue Opera, l’Elisir d’amore for Connecticut Opera, the musical Romance/Romance and the comedy All in the Timing for the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and served as associate director with Renata Scotto on Madama Butterfly for The Dallas Opera. In recent seasons he has directed La Bohéme and The Thunder of Horses for Opera Theatre of St. Louis, The Barber of Seville, The Daughter of the Regiment and Hänsel and Gretel for Boston Lyric’s Opera New England, La traviata for Union Avenue Opera, Lucia di Lammermoor for Connecticut Opera, and The Happy Prince and Down in the Valley for Sarasota Youth Opera. He has served on the directing staff of Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Washington National Opera and Houston Grand Opera, assisting renowned directors Colin Graham, John Copley, Mary Zimmerman, Stefano Vizioli, Olivier Tambosi, David McVicar, Leon Major, James Robinson and Eric Simonson, among others.
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. Mr. Luedloff continues to serve as Artistic Director for LyriCo of St. Louis which begins its second season in September 2005.
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