Richard Carsey
RICHARD CARSEY (Music Director/Conductor). Theatre: Little House on the Prairie(Guthrie); Skylight Opera Theatre, Milwaukee: artistic director (1997–2005), principal conductor (current), and more than 40 productions as music director including Ballymore (world premiere and PBS broadcast), The Mikado (PBS broadcast), Sweeney Todd, The Marriage of Figaro, White Christmas, The Spitfi re Grill, Eugene Onegin, Kirke Mechem’s Tartuff e, and Mark Adamo’s Little Women, as well as Souvenir as performer. As music director: Liceu Opera, Barcelona: A Little Sondheim Music; Lyric Opera Cleveland: The Barber of Seville, Side by Side by Sondheim, Hiram Titus’ Rosina; First Stage Milwaukee: Honk!, Anne of Green Gables; Florida State Opera: Orpheus in the Underworld. As a performer: Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Laguna Beach Playhouse, Globe Theater (Regina, Saskatchewan), Hartford Stage: 2 Pianos, 4 Hands; Milwaukee Chamber Theater: Dirty Blonde. Other Racine Symphony, Wisconsin: resident conductor. Awards: Connecticut Critics’ Circle Award for 2 Pianos, 4 Hands. Training: M.M., Indiana University; B.M., University of Louisville.