Maestro Candillari continues to impress with many forays into contemporary opera repertoire, and made her L.A. Opera debut leading Ellen Reid’s new opera, p r i s m.  She recently made her Lyric Opera of Chicago debut with Gregory Spear’s Fellow Travelers, leading to a reengagement for the following season Jack Perla’s An America Dream.  She also led Du Yun’s Pulitzer Prize winning opera Angel’s Bone (including dell’Arte alumnus Kyle Pfortmiller, baritone) and her Opera Philadelphia debut with Rene Orth’s Empty the House, coproduced with the Curtis Institute of Music.  She will conduct the West Coast premiere of Jennifer Higdon’s Cold Mountain at Music Academy of the West in summer 2019, and make additional debuts with Arizona Opera and Cincinnati Opera. Ms. Candillari led a production of Paisiello’s Il barbiere di Siviglia with dell’Arte in 2015.  www.danielacandillari.com

We are proud to announce Brittany Goodwin as Stage Director for Cavalli’s La Calisto for our August 2017 UNTAMED! Festival. Brittany made her dell’Arte debut as Stage Director of Act I of Puccini’s La Rondine on the “Scenes from the Demimonde” program, and as Assistant Director for La traviata. The previous spring, Brittany made her opera stage directing debut with Felix Jarrar’s Fall of the House of Usher at the Dimenna Center of Classical Music. She serves as Artistic Director of speakNOW theatre co. where she devises new works on current social issues across Northern NJ & NYC (upcoming tour: Public Privacy). A four year resident of Writer’s Theatre, Brittany’s new adaptation of Alice in Wonderland is premiering this month.