Peter Kazaras

OrestesLebt: +cat American opera directors

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'''Peter Kazaras''' is an American stage director, artistic director and opera singer from [[New York City|New York]].

== Career ==
Kazaras holds an undergraduate degree in government. Before his career in opera, he worked in a law firm.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> He served as Artistic Director for the Seattle Opera Young Artist Program from 2006 to 2013.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref name=":0">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>

He is Professor of Music and Director of Opera at UCLA.

== Education ==

* New York Univerity: School of Law, New York, New York, 1977<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
* Riverdale Country School, Bronx, New York, 1969<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>

== Opera ==

=== Operas staged ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!Opera
!Place
|-
|[[Cendrillon]]
|[[Juilliard School|Juliard School]]
|-
|An American Dream
|[[Seattle Opera]]
|-
|[[La bohème]]
|[[Los Angeles Opera]]
|-
|[[La gazza ladra|The Thieving Magpie]]
|[[Glimmerglass Festival|Glimmerglas Festival]]
|-
|[[The Marriage of Figaro|Le Nozze di Figaro]]
|[[Washington National Opera]]
|-
|[[Der Ring des Polykrates (opera)|Der Ring des Polykrates]]
|[[Dallas Opera]]
|-
|[[The Turn of the Screw (opera)|The Turn of the Screw]]
|[[Seattle Opera]]
|-
|[[Mansfield Park (opera)|Mansfield Park]]
|[[UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music|Opera UCLA]]
|-
|[[The Ghosts of Versailles]]
|[[Chautauqua Opera]]
|}

=== Operatic roles ===

* Loge, [[Der Ring des Nibelungen|''Der Ring des Nibelungen'']]<ref name=":0" />
* Erik, ''[[The Flying Dutchman (opera)|Der Fliegende Holländer]]''
*Monsieur Grivet, ''[[Thérèse Raquin (opera)|Thérèse Raquin]] (''2001 premier cast)
*Pelegrin, [[New Year (opera)|New Year]] (1989 premier cast)
*François, [[A Quiet Place (opera)|A Quiet Place]] (1983 premier cast1983 premier cast)

== Competition jury member ==
[[José Iturbi International Music Competition]] (2010)<ref></ref>

[[Marilyn Horne Song Competition]]<ref> Historic Pittsburgh|last=|first=|date=|website=historicpittsburgh.org|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20181229121944/https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt%3AUS-PPiU-ctc201001/from_search/ca8e58282d44cbd9569f726020dc8d50-0|archive-date=2018-12-29|dead-url=|access-date=2018-12-29}}</ref>
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== Filmography ==
The Ghosts of Versailles (Brian Large, 1992)<ref></ref>

== References ==


== External links ==
* [http://bit.ly/2AiiSDd Peter Kazaras] [[Operabase]]
* [http://bit.ly/2SyafeQ Peter Kazaras] Uzan International Artists

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