“Lefkowich is…high-energy…with a firehose of ideas about making opera more popular and accessible.”  – Minneapolis Star Tribune

 

David Lefkowich is an accomplished stage director and fight choreographer and has enjoyed success with different companies including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Gran Teatre del Liceu, La Monnaie, New York City Opera, Minnesota Opera, and Glimmerglass Opera.  Upcoming directing engagements include Les contes d’Hoffmann at Florentine Opera and La Finta Giardiniera.

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Recent directing engagements include Hansel and Gretel, The Magic Flute, La Boheme, Madame Butterfly and West Side Story at the Grand Teton Music Festival, Don Giovanni, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci at Opera Colorado, Bluebeard’s Castle and Cavalleria Rusticana at Sacramento Symphony and Philharmonic, a site-specific and fully-immersive Suor Angelica at the Basilica of St Mary which followed a site-specific La Traviata at the Canopy Hotel by Hilton for Out of the Box Opera in Minneapolis and Opera Columbus, Tosca at Austin Opera at a Formula 1 racetrack, a site-specific Acis and Galatea for Out of the Box Opera in the catacombs of a former Pillsbury Mill in Minneapolis and a fully-immersive Pagliacci in a circus at Boston Lyric Opera.

 

Currently he is the Artistic Director of Out of the Box Opera in Minneapolis, a company dedicated to creating high-quality operatic experiences in site-specific locations, most notably with Diva Cage Match, an epic battle of voices, egos, and talent in a boxing gym.