Roger Pines
2003 District Judge
Roger Pines has judged annually for the District and Regional Auditions
of the Metropolitan Opera National Council since 1992. Mr. Pines is currently
editorial dramaturg at Lyric Opera of Chicago, where he edits the program,
co-edits the magazine, and undertakes a wide variety of writing, public
speaking, and research. This season he will serve as dramaturg for the
new production of Massenet's Thaïs. During 1989-1995 Mr. Pines
was Director of Education at San Diego Opera, where he greatly expanded
the company's education/outreach activities. He has also held positions
at The Dallas Opera and Glimmerglass Opera.
Mr. Pines has lectured for the San Diego Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra,
the Art Institute of Chicago, the "University of Chicago Presents"
concert series, and numerous opera-related professional conferences. He
writes two separate columns for OPERA America's bulletin for singers,
and recently chaired panels for that organization's Singer Career Development
Workshops in Chicago and Cincinnati. He has written extensively for Opera
News, The Opera Quarterly, and International Record Review, while also
contributing articles to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove
Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Opera magazine, BBC Music magazine,
Playbill, and programs of major opera companies and orchestras nationwide,
most recently the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, The Santa
Fe Opera, and Cincinnati Opera. He has written liner notes for recordings
by many renowned artists, among them Renée Fleming, Susanne Mentzer,
Plácido Domingo, and Ben Heppner.
Many of Mr. Pines's more than 30 translations for projected English titles
have been rented to major North American companies. In 1999 his projected
titles for Alcina were seen in Lyric Opera's internationally acclaimed
production of Handel's opera. Twice Mr. Pines has taught his ten-week
course on Verdi operas for OPERA America's "Prompter's Box," a new on-line learning project. Earlier this year he completed four on-line
lectures on The Barber of Seville, also for OPERA America. For
three years Mr. Pines served as "Opera Wizard" for CultureFinder,
an on-line cultural information service.
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