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Jonathon Loy

Stage Director

Jonathon Loy, of New York City, is the General Director of Berkshire Opera Festival, a new summer festival in Western Massachusetts, that produced its first full festival season during the summer of 2016 to great critical and popular acclaim, restoring fully-produced opera to the Berkshire region.  Mr. Loy is also a Guest Director on the Staging Staff at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and a 2002 OPERA America Fellowship winner. As a fellow he focused on stage direction and artistic administration, during which time he completed residencies at New York City Opera, Seattle Opera, Opera Memphis, and Cincinnati Opera.

An active Stage Director, Mr. Loy directed his new production of Madama Butterfly with Berkshire Opera Festival for the 2016 inaugural season, as well as Carmen, Le Nozze di Figaro and Faust at the Metropolitan Opera. He spent five summers directing with Opera Fairbanks in Alaska where in the summer of 2014 he staged a new production of L’Italiana in Algeri with Vivica Genaux and Barry Banks and summer of 2015 saw a new production of Hansel and Gretel with David Cangelosi, Maya Lahyani and Jamie-Rose Guarrine.

The 2017-2018 season includes his ninth season at the Metropolitan Opera, where he will direct Le Nozze di Figaro and assistant direct the new production of The Exterminating Angel, and revivals of Romeo et Juliet and Semiramide.  The summer 2017 season includes directing a new production of Ariadne auf Naxos with Berkshire Opera Festival .

He has also directed Don Giovanni for Opera Las Vegas, Hansel & Gretel adapted by Perry Lorenzo for the Seattle Opera Young Artist Program, three new operas Golden Gate, Fade and Hunger Art as well as La Traviata, La Boheme, Rigoletto and more for Center City Opera Theater.  Mr. Loy is also an active assistant director and has worked with such companies as The Metropolitan Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Seattle Opera, Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Michigan Opera Theater, Palm Beach Opera, Opera Memphis, Opera North and more.

Mr. Loy is the former General Director of Center City Opera Theater in Philadelphia (2003-2007) where he was the first person to produce opera in the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.

Mr. Loy graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies, with a focus on theater, business, and Italian.  He had the unique opportunity to work at Pittsburgh Opera for four years while attending the university and also meeting the renowned voice teacher Claudia Pinza who took Mr. Loy to her school in Italy, where he was able to study the operatic repertoire and experience first hand the training of young singers.

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