| | Artistic Staff Dan Rothermel, Conductor & Music Director
With the performances of Lakmé, Dan Rothermel returns for his seventh season with ConcertOPERA, Philadelphia. He debuted in 2003 with Johann
Strauss' Die Fledermaus, following it in 2004 with Friedrich von Flotow's
Martha, receiving its first Philadelphia performances in over four decades.
In 2005 he presided over the coloratura fireworks of Donizetti's The Daughter
of the Regiment and, in 2006, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. In 2007 he and
COPA returned to the bel canto repertoire with Bellini's elegiac La Sonnambula
and last season revived another rarity, Auber's delectable opéra comique,
Fra Diavolo.
Dan Rothermel is familiar to Philadelphia's opera and theater public as music
director of The Savoy Company, the city's venerable Gilbert and Sullivan
troupe, the oldest in this country. In 2005 Mr. Rothermel celebrated his first
quarter century as Savoy's music director. This season he will conduct his
third Savoy production of The Pirates of Penzance at the Academy of Music
and the Open Air Theatre, Longwood Gardens. An authority on four national
schools of light opera, Mr. Rothermel has been a guest lecturer on
light opera and on nineteenth century British music at Temple University,
the Academy of Vocal Arts, Drexel University, Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges, and the University of the Arts.
Retired from the School District of Philadelphia after more than forty years
of teaching, Mr. Rothermel continues to serve part time on the staff of the
Shawmont Academic Music Program which he helped initiate in 1980. Mr.
Rothermel currently serves on the board of the Musical Fund Society by
chairing its Career Advancement Award committee which financially assists
outstanding emerging performing artists.
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