Opera Project Columbus is elated to welcome Eric Gibson to the OPC family as our new Executive Director.
Gibson is a stage director equally comfortable with opera and musical theatre.
He has directed productions of Die Fledermaus, Madame Butterfly, The Pirates of Penzance, Hansel and Gretel, Trouble in Tahiti, Bastien and Bastienne, and The Barber of Seville for Fargo-Moorhead Opera.
Other engagements include The Barber of Seville for Opera Tampa, The Mikado and HMS Pinafore for Union Avenue Opera in St. Louis, Rigoletto for MidAtlantic Opera Company, and The Barber of Seville, The Mikado, Sweeney Todd and The Light in the Piazza for Mobile Opera. Recently Gibson staged la Rondine for Winter Opera in St. Louis after staging The Italian Girl in Algiers for the company.
Gibson served as artistic director of LOOK Musical Theatre (Tulsa) directing nearly fifty original productions including Die Fledermaus, Naughty Marietta, The Merry Widow, Sweeney Todd, Guys & Dolls, South Pacific, Candide and multiple productions of nearly the entire Gilbert & Sullivan cannon.
Gibson has taught acting at AIMS in Graz, Austria and the Kashu-do Opera Studios in Harnosand, Sweden.
He directed Cosi fan tutte for Varna International in Bulgaria and is the current acting teacher and stage director for the International Performing Arts Institute in Kiefersfelden, Germany.
As Director of Lyric Theatre at Northern Arizona University from 2015-2020, Gibson staged original productions of Signor Deluso, Il Campanello, Beethoven’s Slippers, Dido & Aeneas, Kiss me, Kate, Trouble in Tahiti, The Pirates of Penzance, The Magic Flute, The Light in the Piazza, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi.
Past productions include Dido & Aeneas at Ohio State, with Gallantry, Signor Deluso and Hansel und Gretel on the horizon.
Gibson is currently the professor, opera stage director and acting teacher at The Ohio State University and resides in Columbus, Ohio.
We are great hands with his leadership and the future is exciting with his vision. Eric's experience and expertise will be an amazing asset to Opera Project Columbus and we can't wait to see his imprint on our organization.
Welcome Eric!