Highly regarded for his inspirational leadership and musical integrity, Steven White is one of North America’s premiere opera conductors. In February of 2009 he joins the conducting staff of the Metropolitan Opera to serve as cover conductor for a new production of Bellini’s La sonnambula starring Natalie Dessay and Juan Diego Florez. Other engagements during the 2008-2009 season include appearances with L’Opéra de Montréal (Lucia di Lammermoor), Baltimore Opera (Gala Concert), Opera Roanoke (Falstaff, Otello and Das Lied von der Erde) and the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra (Carmen).
In the 2007-2008 season Mr. White presided over performances of Roméo et Juliette with Baltimore Opera, L’elisir d’amore with Pittsburgh Opera, Lucia di Lammermoor with Fort Worth Opera, Fidelio and Hansel and Gretel with Opera Roanoke, and La bohéme and Tosca with the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra.
In November 2006 he was widely praised for his conducting of Rolando Villazon and the Greek National Radio Symphony Orchestra in internationally televised concerts from the United Nations and Alice Tully Hall. Also garnering worldwide attention and critical esteem were his performances of L’assedio di Corinto with Baltimore Opera in October 2006. Other highlights of the 2006-2007 season included appearances with Vancouver Opera (I puritani), Michigan Opera Theater (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Spoleto Festival USA (Festival Finale Concert), Syracuse Opera (Lucia di Lammermoor), the Naples Philharmonic (Le nozze di Figaro) and Opera Roanoke (La bohème and Macbeth).
Steven White is Artistic Director of Opera Roanoke. He has conducted nearly all of that company’s productions since 1999 (Fidelio, Falstaff, Otello, Macbeth, Aida, Rigoletto, La traviata, Lucia di Lammermoor, Carmen, Roméo et Juliette, La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Le nozze di Figaro, Hänsel und Gretel and Acis and Galatea.) Before his appointment in Roanoke he served for two seasons as Principal Conductor for Opera Birmingham (Madama Butterfly, Le nozze di Figaro, and gala concerts with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra.) From 1993 to 1997 he was Chorus Master and Associate Conductor of Florida Grand Opera.
Mr. White has conducted at New York City Opera (Don Giovanni, Carmen, La bohème), Baltimore Opera (L’assedio di Corinto, I puritani, La sonnambula , Roméo et Juliette) Opera Colorado (La traviata), Arizona Opera (The Merry Widow, Tosca, Don Pasquale), Vancouver Opera (Lucia di Lammermoor, La fille du régiment, I puritani), Sarasota Opera (Werther), Syracuse Opera (Don Giovanni, Les contes d’Hoffmann, Macbeth, Lucia di Lammermoor), New Orleans Opera (Lucia di Lammermoor), Wichita Grand Opera (Lucia di Lammermoor), Nashville Opera (Pagliacci), Opera North Carolina (Madama Butterfly), Wolf Trap Opera (L’elisir d’amore), Madison Opera (outdoor Gala Concerts) and Indiana University Opera Theater (La traviata).
Mr. White has conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra for a CHANDOS recording of arias featuring soprano Elizabeth Futral. He has also conducted the New World Symphony Orchestra, the Spoleto Festival Orchestra, the Colorado Symphony, the Syracuse Symphony, the Charleston Symphony, the Florida Philharmonic, the Fort Worth Symphony, the North Carolina Symphony, the Madison Symphony Orchestra, the Naples Philharmonic and many other orchestras.
