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photo Lin White

Lin White is the Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Music Theatre Company, a company which she founded in 1975 for the purpose of developing young professional singers in the field of opera. She has directed over two dozen operas there, ranging from Cimarosa and Mozart to Poulenc and Bernstein. In the last few years she has also directed opera productions at the John Anson Ford Theatre in Los Angeles (Mozart's La Finta Semplice and Rossini's La Scala di Seta), Pacific Repertory Opera (Menotti's Amahl and the Night Vistors and The Consul, Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Le Villi, and Rossini's La Cenerentola) Santa Barbara Grand Opera (Amahl and Hansel and Gretel), and the Redlands Bowl (La Bohème and The Barber of Seville). Last year she organized The Opera Discovery Showcase, an advanced program of operatic scenes and arias prepared for management and agents, in New York City. A graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, Ms. White has directed opera programs at Los Angeles Valley College, the University of California at Irvine, Chapman College, and the South Bay Conservatory in California.


23 Feb 1996

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