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Yefim Maizel
Yefim
Maizel is the director for The
Merry Widow. Previous productions with West Bay Opera include
Madama Butterfly, Don
Pasquale,
and The Italian
Girl in Algiers.
Mr. Maizel has directed and assisted in the former Soviet Union, in Europe, and in the US, at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Washington Opera, Kirov Opera, Wexford Opera Festival, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Pacific, Michigan Opera Theater, and Opera Santa Barbara. Since 1999 he has been at the Metropolitan Opera, where he directs Madama Butterfly, and he has assisted on productions of Mazeppa, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Il trovatore, Manon, The Gambler, Idomeneo, Don Carlo, Elektra, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Otello, The Queen of Spades, and Das Rheingold. From 1993 to 2001, he worked as an assistant stage director for San Francisco Opera productions of The Queen of Spades, Ruslan and Lyudmila, Madama Butterfly, Faust, Rusalka, Prince Igo, Eugene Onegin, Betrothal in a Monastery, The Tsar’s Bride, and Simon Boccanegra.
In 2005, Mr. Maizel established the Opera Academy of California, a non-profit educational organization, where he serves as CEO and Artistic Director. He is also a member of the faculty of the Bay Area Summer Opera Training Institute (BASOTI).
