Engagements for the 2012-13 season include Jake Heggie's Moby-Dick with San Francisco Opera, the Richard Tucker Gala at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, a U.S. He has enjoyed longstanding relationships with the Metropolitan Opera, where he has conducted regularly since 1998 with San Francisco Opera, where he has been principal guest conductor since 1999 and with Opera Australia. At HGO, he has conducted world premieres (André Previn's Brief Encounter, Christopher Theofanidis's The Refuge, Jake Heggie's The End of the Affair and Three Decembers, and Carlisle Floyd's Cold Sassy Tree) and works that span the operatic canon, including Verdi's Don Carlos, La traviata, Nabucco, Rigoletto, Il trovatore, Simon Boccanegra, Falstaff, and A Masked Ball Puccini's La bohème, Madame Butterfly, Manon Lescaut, and Tosca Mozart's Così fan tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, The Abduction from the Seraglio, and Idomeneo Donizetti's Mary Stuart, The Elixir of Love, Lucia di Lammermoor, and Don Pasquale Lehár's The Merry Widow Handel's Julius Caesar Rossini's The Barber of Seville Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos Britten's Billy Budd, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Turn of the Screw, and Peter Grimes and Wagner's Lohengrin. He has been responsible for many of HGO's important artistic advances, including the development of the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, regularly praised by critics as a world-class ensemble. Patrick Summers currently holds the Margaret Alkek Williams Chairs and was named artistic and music director of HGO in 2011 after having served as the company's music director since 1998. Patrick Summers, The Margaret Alkek Williams Chair Artistic and Music Director, Houston Grand Opera Faculty Funding Resources and Opportunities.Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS).Humanities Graduate Student Association (HGSA).Elizabeth Lee Moody Undergraduate Research Fellowship in the Humanities and the Arts.

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