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| Lincoln Clark's opera career has been three-fold: as lyric tenor singing in the opera houses of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and as featured actor-singer in German film and television, as stage director in the United States, Europe and Asia, as Director of Opera and Professor of Music at Florida State University, and as Visiting Professor and interim Director of Opera at Ohio University. | ||||||||
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Lincoln Clark - 6425 South Blackburn Road, Athens, OH 45701 |
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Following Music, Drama and Romance Language studies at UCLA and City College with Jan Popper and Ludwig Donath, and Opera Performance at the Music Academy of the West with Lotte Lehman, Fritz Zweig and Armand Tokatyan, Lincoln Clark won a Fulbright fellowship to the Bavarian State Music Academy in Munich, which led to a 3-year contract with the Hannover State Opera. Guest Engagements followed at the Hamburg State Opera, the State Opera houses at Braunschweig and Karlsruhe, the Munich Chamber Opera and the Raimund Theater in Vienna for leading tenor roles. |
| Mr. Clark was also featured in the music films, Voyage dans la lune for the Real Studio, Hamburg, and Ein Hofball für den Walzerkönig and Ein Faschingsball for the West German Television in Cologne, Germany. In 1974 he received a National Opera Institute grant to enable his transfer back to the USA to study directing under George London, Italo Tajo and Georges Hirsch at Seattle Opera, where he made his directing debut with an acclaimed production of Der Rosenkavalier (Review & Photo). Since then he has directed 58 productions for the opera companies at Seattle, Vancouver, BC, Denver, Philadelphia, San Diego and Portland, and for the Manila Metropolitan Theater, where he was a regular guest director of Italian and French works for five seasons. Mr. Clark also won international praise for his direction of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen for the Pacific Northwest Festival, and his Siegfried (Review) at the Teatro del Gran Liceu in Barcelona, Spain. In 1983 Lincoln Clark became full professor and Director of Opera at the Florida State Opera at Florida State University. During his 12-year tenure at Florida State he initiated the doctoral degree in Opera Performance and the master's degree in Opera Stage Direction. He later also organized and initiated a study and performance program for American singers at the FSU Study Center in Florence, Italy. Mr. Clark has been an adjudicator of the Metropolitan Regional Auditions in Chicago regularly since 1984. In 1996 he returned to free-lance directing and consulting. He has since directed productions for the Piedmont Opera in Winston-Salem, NC, and the new opera Reverend Everyman by Salvador Brotons for the Portland State University Opera. Current engagements include directing a Mozart program in Krakow, Poland and a lecture series for the Il Chiostro Autumn Arts Festival in Tuscany at Dievole/Siena, Italy. The University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign has recently employed Lincoln Clark as opera consultant for the 1999-2000 academic year. | |
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| Marie Caruso | Stadtische Opera - Berlin |
| Teri Hansen | Magnolia in the Harold Prince production of SHOWBOAT |
| Claudia Waite | Metropolitan
Opera and San Francisco Opera |
| Caroline Whisnant | Milwaukee Opera |
| John Gates | Stadttheater, Mönchengladbach |
| John La Forge | Atlanta Opera |
| Daniel Weeks | Metropolitan
Opera Finals winner |
STAGE DIRECTORS
| Steven Daigle | Stage and Dramatic Director, Eastman Opera Theater |
| Michael Johnson | Director, University of Memphis |
| Don Rierson | Director of Opera and Music Theatre at James Madison University |
RECENT ENGAGEMENTS
Visiting Professor and interim Director of Opera at Ohio University, 2005-2006
Consultant to the University of Illinois Opera Program, Urbana-Champaign
Art Media Productions (Munich) touring production of Mozart Operas with Krakow State Television Orchestra
Il Chiostro Autumn Arts Festival - Dievole/Siena, Italy
