Steven Osgood

Steven Osgood's conducting credits include Seattle Opera, Arizona Opera, L’Opéra de Montréal, New York City Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Atlanta Opera, Opera Memphis, Utah Opera, Rice University, and the Juilliard School. He joined the music staff of The Metropolitan Opera in 2006 as Cover Conductor for the world premiere of Tan Dun’s The First Emperor.

He has continued in that role for subsequent productions including Satyagraha, Akhnaten, Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer, and most recently The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. He made his conducting debut at the Met in 2023 leading two performances of Dead Man Walking. He will conduct the May 22, 2026 performance of El último sueño de Frida y Diego.

Mr. Osgood has conducted the world premieres of over two dozen operas, including The Rising World for Seoul Arts Center and Intimate Apparel at Lincoln Center Theater.  Other notable premieres include As One (American Opera Projects), The Long Walk (Opera Saratoga), Breaking the Waves (Opera Philadelphia) and JFK (Fort Worth Opera). He conducted the world premieres of Sumeida’s Song, The Scarlett Ibis, Blood Moon and Thumbrint for the PROTOTYPE Festival. He has been the Conductor Mentor for Washington National Opera’s American Opera Initiative, leading the premieres of six of their commissioned works.  

As Artistic Director of American Opera Projects from 2001 to 2008 he created the company’s prestigious Composers & the Voice fellowship program which has fostered the careers of over 80 composers and librettists during its 12 cycles.  

Osgood has been General and Artistic Director of the Chautauqua Opera Company since 2016, during which time he has led productions ranging from La Traviata and Don Pasquale to contemporary masterpieces such as Song From the Uproar, Hydrogen Jukebox and The Ghosts of Versailles. In the 2025 season Chautauqua hosted an orchestral workshop of Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s Lincoln in the Bardo, alongside a full production of La bohème.