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Jonathon Field Bio | Critical Acclaim
Role: Stage Director for The Daughter of the Regiment | Where: Sugar Creek Symphony & Song | When:Fri., Aug. 5 at 8 pm, Sun., Aug. 7 at 3 pm

Stage Director Jonathon Field has become one of America's more versatile and popular stage directors. Mr. Field is currently the Director of the Oberlin Opera Theater and an Associate Professor at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where his productions this season include Evangelista's Excercies de Style, The Bartered Bride, La Clemenza di Tito, and The Little Match Girl Passion.

From 2000 through 2006 he served as Artistic Director of Lyric Opera Cleveland, where he presented the operas of Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti and the Ohio premieres of works by John Adams, Mark Adamo and Philip Glass.

Mr. Field has worked with companies including:

Lyric Opera of Chicago | Arizona Opera | San Francisco Opera | Fremont Opera | Toledo Opera | Edinburgh Fringe Festival | Teatro Colon | Urbania Festival in Italy | Miller Theater in New York | Real Time Opera with Oberlin Conservatory

After directing the The Barber of Seville in 2010, Mr. Field returns to Sugar Creek to direct The Daughter of the Regiment. Tickets.
What the Critics are Saying about Jonathon

“Under the artistic direction of Jonathon Field, Lyric's (Lyric Opera Cleveland's) seasons have been adventurous and challenging.”

Opera News

“director Jonathon Field drew skilled, committed acting from all of the singers.”

“Jonathon Field's staging is a keen mix of the uproarious and the reverent, just what Mozart and Schikaneder appear to have intended.”

“Jonathon Field contributes marvelously resourceful direction . . . ”