Artistic Director
Great River Shakespeare Festival
“…the audience was in heaven. From the conversations I overheard during intermissions, they were clearly loving it. At the final curtain drop, they gave the most enthused and prolonged standing ovation I have seen in my 3 years in attendance at the Long Center. It was much deserved.”
-Pat Dixon for the Austin Post
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Pittsburgh Opera’s ‘Lucia’ is riveting production
“…The opera is famous for Lucia’s mad scene in the last act, but Pittsburgh Opera’s production directed by Doug Scholz-Carlson built to that climax with commitment from first note to last…” (Read the full review)
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Pittsburgh Opera’s Facebook Page
Brundibar
“The History teacher was moved to tears throughout the play. She said that the play was the most outstanding performance and important performance that she had ever taken the children to at the Kravis. Her only regret is that she had not closed middle school and taken them all.” -Lucy Dwyer, Principal, Palm Beach Area Schools
St. Louis Post Dispatch
“Hans Krasa’s “Brundibar is a sweet, charming opera for children, a simple tale of good overcoming evil. In Opera Theatre of St. Louis’ intense new production, performed Wednesday at the Touhill Performing Arts Center, it becomes much more….”
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Great River Shakespeare Festival on Flickr.
The Sorcerer – Gilbert and Sullivan Very Light Opera Company
Light opera company conjures up frolicsome, frivolous fun
“Director Doug Scholz-Carlson and a cast of dozens fill the show with clever comic staging ideas, helping make the production a smile inducing delight…”
–St. Paul Pioneer Press
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Other Productions:
Madison Opera
The Tender Land
The Great River Shakespeare Festival (Apprentice Company)
Cymbeline
As You Like It
Minnesota Opera (Resident Artist Program)
The Rape of Lucretia
New Breath Productions
Rags
Theater 3 (touring, Port Jefferson, NY)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Minnesota Shakespeare Festival at Grand Marais
Hamlet
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Macbeth
Also Company Co-Founder and Artistic Director
Minnesota Shakespeare Project
Hamlet
Also Company Co-Founder and Artistic Director
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra (Education programs)
Bastienne and Bastienna
Institute of Vocal Artistry, Minneapolis
Hansel and Gretel
Minnesota Orchestra and the Minnesota Opera
Scenes from La Boheme
Minnesota Opera Resident Artist Program
An Evening of Scenes
Northfield Arts Guild
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
Seattle Police Department
Lily Loves Charlie, OK?
Lake Country School
Mid-West Side Story (An original Moliere adaptation)
Northfield Youth Choirs
H.M.S. Pinafore
The Mikado
Assistant Director
Minnesota Opera
The Grapes of Wrath (World Premier) Eric Simonson
Carmen (David Roth org. Keith Warner)
Lucia di Lammermoor (James Robinson)
The Magic Flute (Michael Cavanaugh)
Carmina Burana/Pagliacci (Christopher Mataliano)
Don Carlos (Tim Albery)
The Barber of Seville (Chuck Hudson)
La Boheme (David Roth)
Der Rosenkavalier (Sandra Bernhardt)
The Handmaid’s Tale (American Premier) (Eric Simonson)
Street Scene (Michael Erlich)
Utah Opera & Symphony
The Grapes of Wrath (Eric Simonson)
Pittsburgh Opera
The Grapes of Wrath (Eric Simonson)
Lucia di Lammermoor (James Robinson)
Doug Scholz-Carlson 