Stephen Wadsworth
2007 Regional Judge

Stephen Wadsworth has directed all performances of Seattle Opera’s third production of Wagner’s Ring cycle (2000 preview, 2001, and 2005). Other Seattle Opera credits include Janacek’s Jenufa Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice, Wagner’s Fliegende Holländer and Lohengrin (1994 and 2004), and Handel’s Xerxes. His work in opera has also been seen at the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Vienna Staatsoper, De Nederlandse Opera, Edinburgh Festival, and in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Toronto, and Santa Fe. Recently, he directed Shaw’s Misalliance for San Diego’s Old Globe, Don Juan at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., and Handel’s Rodelindaat the Metropolitan Opera. Wadsworth’s productions of plays by Aeschylus, Shakespeare, Molière, Marivaux, Goldoni, Shaw, Wilde, and Coward, a number of which have played at Seattle Rep, have established him as a master of the classical repertoire. He has translated and adapted a number of works for the stage, including operas by Monteverdi, Handel, and Mozart. For composer Leonard Bernstein, Wadsworth wrote the libretto for A Quiet Place (first performed in 1983). His groundbreaking translations of Marivaux are available as Marivaux: Three Plays; his translation of Molière’s Don Juan was published in 2005. In 2004, the French government named him Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He directed 2005-2006 Metropolitan Opera productions of Handel's ''Rodelinda'' with Renee Fleming in the title role. He hs long been an adjudicator for the MONC auditions.

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