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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 is Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Opera Theatre for University of Northern Colorado where he has directed Hänsel und Gretel, Dido and Aeneas, Mark Adamo’s Little Women, Le nozze di Figaro, The Bartered Bride, Rossini’s La cambiale di matrimonio, The Impresario and Bastien and Bastienne, in addition to supervising opera scenes programs and opera course curriculum. He was the co-director of UNC’s Summer European Opera Theatre program in its inaugural season in 2007, in cooperation with Opera Classica Europa, where students participate in professional productions, concerts and masterclasses with international opera stars and professional orchestras in historic venues in Germany, Spain, France and Italy.
In recent seasons Mr. Luedloff has directed Madama Butterfly for the Green Mountain Opera Festival (Vermont) and assisted Mark Streshinsky on the world premiere of Colin Graham’s posthumous production of David Carlson’s Anna Karenina for Opera Theatre of St. Louis; other recent productions include Cavalleria Rusticana and Gianni Schicchi for Connecticut Opera, where he previously staged L’elisir d’amore and Lucia di Lammermoor; La traviata and Lucia di Lammermoor for St Louis’ Union Avenue Opera Theatre, 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 tour, as well as the comedy All in the Timing and the musicals I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change and Romance/Romance for the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, Maine. In January 2005 he served as associate director with Renata Scotto on Madama Butterfly for The Dallas Opera, where he previously staged a revival of the John Copley production of Hänsel und Gretel and the school matinee cast of Giulio Chazalette’s production of Tosca.
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 acting in the School’s renowned Opera Institute and the Theatre Arts Division, and directed Gilbert & Sullivan’s Trial by Jury, Christopher Hampton’s The Philanthropist, Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party, Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, The Diviners, and the musical Quilters. He has served on the staging staff at San Francisco Opera, The Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, The Dallas Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Chautauqua Opera and Boston’s Huntington Theatre Company, assisting renowned directors Colin Graham, John Copley, Mary Zimmerman, James Robinson, Jay Lesenger Leon Major, David McVicar, Giulio Chazelette, Stefano Vizioli, Olivier Tambosi and Eric Simonson, among others. Upcoming engagements include L’elisir d’amore for Loveland Opera Theatre, February 2009.
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