Steven White

Praised by Opera News as a conductor who “squeezes every drop of excitement and pathos from the score,” Steven White is one of North America’s premiere operatic and symphonic conductors. He made his acclaimed Metropolitan Opera debut in 2010, conducting performances of La traviata starring Angela Gheorghiu and Thomas Hampson. Since then, he has conducted several Metropolitan Opera performances with such stars as Natalie Dessay, Dmitri Hvorostovksy and Matthew Polenzani.

This season Maestro White returns to the Met to lead seven performances of Julie Taymor’s famed production of The Magic Flute. He also returns to conduct L’elisir d’amore with the Utah Symphony and Opera, where he previously has led productions of Thaïs, Tosca and La traviata.

Steven White is the Principal Guest Conductor of Opera Omaha, where this season he will conduct Patricia Racette’s production of Susannah, in honor of the 100th anniversary of Carlisle Floyd’s birth in 1926. Last season he conducted the fabled David Hockney production of The Rake’s Progress. Other past productions in Omaha include Eugene Onegin, La traviata, Le nozze di Figaro, Rigoletto, Così fan tutte, Il barbiere di Siviglia and the world-premiere staged production of a brand-new Bärenreiter Urtext edition of Gounod’s Faust.

This season brings Maestro White to return engagements as an artist in residence with some of this country’s most prestigious conservatories and artist-training programs. He will lead a production of Falstaff at the Academy of Vocal Arts, where last season he conducted Faust and AVA’s 90th Anniversary Gala Concert, and where he conducted Anna Bolena the previous season.

He also returns to Peabody Conservatory, where he will lead Street Scene in a historic collaboration with Morgan State University. Previous Peabody productions include Dialogues des Carmélites, Le nozze di Figaro and Postcard from Morocco.