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Michael Nutter |
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Stage Director
Michael Nutter made his Capitol City Opera Company debut in 1998, directing the Ned Rorem one-act The Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters, in which the concept for Opera Briefs was created with Donna Angel. Since then, he has directed over 20 operas with Capitol City Opera Company, including The Crucible, Meanwhile, Back at Cinderella’s, A Little Nightmare Music, the Stoned Guest, Wuthering Heights, The Old Maid and the Thief, The Saint of Bleecker Street, Susannah, Così fan tutte, and The Medium, A Streetcar Named Desire, PDQ Bach’s A Little Nightmare Music and The Stoned Guest. His most recent CCOC production was Jake Heggie’s At the Statue of Venus with Henry Purcell’s Dido and Æneas.
He has also staged productions of Cavalleria Rusticana for Eugene Opera, and Two From Seuss (Gertrude McFuzz and Gerald McBoing Boing) for the Oregon Bach Festival, as well as a production of The Telephone in Binghamton, NY and the world premiere of Where Music Comes From in Eugene, OR.
Michael has worked in opera, classical music and theatre professionally for 21 years. He has also served in many staff positions, from Stage Manager to Production Manager, for Eugene Opera, Atlanta Opera, Tri-Cities Opera in Binghamton, NY, Central City Opera in Colorado and Theatrical Outfit in Atlanta, and has served for 15 seasons as Technical Director for the Grammy-award-winning Oregon Bach Festival in Eugene, OR. He works full-time in the Human Resource department of Alston + Bird LLP, which has appeared for eight years on Fortune’s® "The 100 Best Companies to Work For"™. |
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Reviews: Pierre Ruhe, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “directed by the always savvy Michael Nuttter” - Dido and Æneas, 2007 “Michael Nutter’s stage direction had its usual clarity and humanity”.—A Streetcar Named Desire, 2006
“Stage director Michael Nutter kept the action flowing, the expressions believable”.—Susannah, 2006
It all came together under Michael Nutter’s straight-ahead stage direction… For love of opera, they pushed themselves to a highly enjoyable performance.—The Medium, 2004
Alertly directed by Michael Nutter, this “Cosi” had a stereotype-busting final twist.—Così fan tutte, 2005
The evening’s third opera Menotti’s “The Old Maid and the Thief,” from 1939, here received comparatively deluxe treatment and, with stage direction by Michael Nutter, was as tightly constructed as I’ve ever seen it staged. - Old Maid and the Thief, 2003
One of Atlanta's smaller but dependable ensembles, Capitol City succeeds with local talent and believable theater (directed here by Michael Nutter) - The Saint of Bleecker Street, 2004
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