Amy Hutchison

Director Amy Hutchison stages "wildly imaginative" opera and theater productions throughout the US and worldwide, including William Bolcom’s A View From The Bridge at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Washington National Opera, and Portland Opera; Hansel & Gretel at Opernhaus Zürich, Canadian Opera Company, The Juilliard School, televised Live from Lincoln Center, San Diego Opera; Porgy and Bess at Teatro alla Scala Milan, L’Opera Nationale de Paris, Bunkamura Theatre Tokyo, German Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf; and Carmen for Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Milwaukee Opera, and Opera Columbus. 

 

From Verdi’s swashbuckling Il Corsaro for Opera Festival of Chicago to her “brilliantly mounted double bill" of Donizetti's Il Pigmaglione & Rita for Chicago Opera Theater, Amy's work has been hailed as “an opera lover’s dreams on a golden platter.” Hutchison’s historic production of William Grant Still’s epic masterwork Troubled Island for South Shore Opera Company of Chicago was named the number one classical music event of 2013 by the Chicago Sun-Times. She is a longtime champion of new American opera, collaborating with composers William Bolcom, Laura Kaminsky, Missy Mazzoli, Ricky Ian Gordon, Stacy Garrop, Wang Lu, Jonathan Stinson, and Steven M. Allen. She is dramaturg and director for Pittsburgh Opera’s new commission TIME TO ACT, by Kaminsky and librettist Crystal Manich, exploring the long-term emotional impact of gun violence on American students. She has Directed Kaminsky's As One in Chicago, Santa Barbara, San Antonio, Pensacola, and Duluth.

 

Amy has served on the directing staffs of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Houston Grand Opera.  Her work in academia includes: The Juilliard School, Indiana University, Boston University, Northwestern University, DePaul University, Roosevelt University, and Rider University/Westminster Choir College. Based in Chicago, Amy proudly serves on the board of directors for About Face Theatre and on the advisory board of South Chicago Dance Theatre.

 

Director Amy Hutchison stages "wildly imaginative" opera and theater productions throughout the US and worldwide, including William Bolcom’s A View From The Bridge at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Washington National Opera, and Portland Opera; Hansel & Gretel at Opernhaus Zürich, Canadian Opera Company, The Juilliard School, televised Live from Lincoln Center, San Diego Opera; Porgy and Bess at Teatro alla Scala Milan, L’Opera Nationale de Paris, Bunkamura Theatre Tokyo, German Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf; and Carmen for Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Milwaukee Opera, and Opera Columbus. 

 

From Verdi’s swashbuckling Il Corsaro for Opera Festival of Chicago to her “brilliantly mounted double bill" of Donizetti's Il Pigmaglione & Rita for Chicago Opera Theater, Amy's work has been hailed as “an opera lover’s dreams on a golden platter.” Hutchison’s historic production of William Grant Still’s epic masterwork Troubled Island for South Shore Opera Company of Chicago was named the number one classical music event of 2013 by the Chicago Sun-Times. She is a longtime champion of new American opera, collaborating with composers William Bolcom, Laura Kaminsky, Missy Mazzoli, Ricky Ian Gordon, Stacy Garrop, Wang Lu, Jonathan Stinson, and Steven M. Allen. She is dramaturg and director for Pittsburgh Opera’s new commission TIME TO ACT, by Kaminsky and librettist Crystal Manich, exploring the long-term emotional impact of gun violence on American students. She has Directed Kaminsky's As One in Chicago, Santa Barbara, San Antonio, Pensacola, and Duluth.

 

Amy has served on the directing staffs of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Houston Grand Opera. Her work in academia includes: The Juilliard School, Indiana University, Boston University, Northwestern University, DePaul University, Roosevelt University, and Rider University/Westminster Choir College. Based in Chicago, Amy proudly serves on the board of directors for About Face Theatre and on the advisory board of South Chicago Dance Theatre.