RICHARD BADO
Professor of Opera Studies
Director of the Opera Studies Program
A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, RICHARD BADO made his professional conducting debut in 1989 leading Houston Grand Opera’s acclaimed production of Show Boat at the newly restored Cairo Opera House in Egypt. Since then, Mr. Bado has conducted at Teatro alla Scala, Opéra National de Paris, Houston Grand Opera, New York City Opera, the Tulsa Opera, the Florida Philharmonic, the Montreal Symphony, Wolf Trap Opera, Houston Ballet, and has conducted the Robert Wilson production of Virgil Thompson’s Four Saints in Three Acts at the Edinburgh Festival.
He appears regularly in recital with Renée Fleming and has also accompanied Cecilia Bartoli, Frederica von Stade, Denyce Graves, Susan Graham, Marcello Giordani, Ramon Vargas, Samuel Ramey and Nathan Gunn. Mr. Bado, who holds music degrees from the Eastman School of Music, where he received the 2000 Alumni Achievement Award and West Virginia University, has studied advanced choral conducting with Robert Shaw.
As Houston Grand Opera’s Chorus Master, Mr. Bado has prepared choruses for 20 seasons. In the fall of 2005 Mr. Bado joined the faculty at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music as Director of the Opera Studies Program. He has been on the faculty of the Aspen Music Festival and School for 13 summers and has served on the music staff of the Metropolitan Opera, Seattle Opera, Opera Australia, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Chautauqua Opera and Wolf Trap Opera. Mr. Bado regularly judges for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and served as Houston Grand Opera’s Head of Music Staff for 14 seasons.
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