William Farlow, Professor of Music and Director of Opera at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has well over two hundred fifty productions to his credit. His career has taken him to Scotland, Mexico, and Canada, as well as throughout the United States including New York City, Chicago, Memphis, and Fort Worth. He has directed productions for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Los Angles Opera, and the Canadian Opera, and has worked with such artists as Placido Domingo, Kiri Te Kanawa, Carlo Maria Giulini, and David Hockney. As a singer Mr. Farlow has performed major roles in La Cenerentola, La belle Hélène, and Così fan tutte, as well as principal roles in nine Gilbert and Sullivan operas. He has choreographed national touring productions of The Merry Widow and Naughty Marietta for the Eastern Opera Company. As a stage director Mr. Farlow's repertoire ranges from Handel to Schoenberg and Mozart to Ravel. His credits include major productions of Tristan und Isolde for the Pittsburgh Opera, Turandot for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Salome for the Los Angeles Opera. He has directed the Florentine Opera's young audience production of The Barber of Seville and The Mikado for the Lyric Opera of Kansas City. He was invited chair a panel at Opera America's Young Singers' Workshop in Chicago in March 2001, is a contributor of articles to Opera America's Perspective series and a frequent judge for the Metropolitan National Council Auditions. In July 2001 Mr. Farlow directed the world premiere of The Children of the Keweenaw for Michigan's Pine Mountain Music Festival. Past productions include a double bill of the Mahagonny Songspiel and Trouble in Tahiti for the University of Kansas and Doctor Miracle for the Florentine Opera Company. Recent engagements include La bohème and Die Zauberflöte for the Kalamazoo Symphony, Turandot for the Pensacola opera, and Tosca for the Midland Symphony. 2005-06 engagements included the world premiere of Alicyn Warren's Mirror Story for the University of Michigan, La bohème for the Midland Symphony, and productions of Hänsel und Gretel and the world premiere of Andrzej Hanzelewicz's Maud Powell: Queen of Violinists for the Maud Powell Music Festival. In 2007 he returned to the Kalamazoo Symphony for a production of Faust, Opera Iowa for Don Pasquale, and the Maud Powell Music Festival for the world premiere of Jonathan Schwabe's The Bake Shop Ghost. Recent productions include Madama Butterfly for the Midland Symphony, the world premiere of Maura Bosch's opera Art and Desire, and Alcina. This season he will direct Thaïs and Maria Stuarda for UW-Madison, Turandot for the Kalamazoo Symphony, and Hansel and Gretel and The Barber of Seville for Opera Iowa. Mr. Farlow has a Bachelor of Music in Theory and Composition from the University of Texas-El Paso and a Master of Music in Opera from the University of Texas-Austin.