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Anthony Laciura

Time flies when you’re enjoying yourself. That popular sentiment occurred to Anthony Laciura as he heard an announcer introduce him as the host for a recent Saturday afternoon Metropolitan Opera broadcast. The facts, for the moment, startled him:

860 performances of some 59 roles! “I did all that?” he thought to himself. For the past twenty-five consecutive seasons, yes, he did all that. Of course there was more debuts elsewhere: Geneva, Amsterdam, Montreal, Mexico City, Tokyo, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and many summer seasons at Santa Fe.

Michael Ehrman

Michael Ehrman has staged opera productions for companies including Houston Grand Opera, Greater Miami Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Atlanta Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, and Chicago Opera Theater. Recent productions include Vanessa for Central City Opera, Noye’s Fludde for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Sound of Music and The Barber of Seville for Tulsa Opera, The Crucible and Romeo et Juliette for Indianapolis Opera, and The Tales of Hoffmann for Connecticut Opera, He directed Street Scene for Minnesota Opera, The Ballad of Baby Doe for Utah Opera and Indianapolis Opera, Carmen for Virginia Opera, and The Magic Flute for Wolf Trap.