Since 1997 Stephen Stubbs has co-directed the bi-annual Boston Early Music Festival, winning rave reviews for their concerts and opera productions and three Grammy nominations for their recordings of Conradi’s Ariadne, and Lully’s Thesee and Psyché. He began his career as an opera director with Stefano Landi’s La Morte d’Orfeo at the 1987 Bruges festival,
after which he has been in constant demand as a music director with opera companies throughout Europe and Scandinavia including Bilbao and Murcia in Spain, and several engagements at the Netherlands Opera Amsterdam. After a thirty-year career in Europe, conductor and lutenist Stephen Stubbs recently returned to his native Seattle to establish his new opera company, Pacific Musicworks. To cultivate the singers and players of the next generation he founded an early opera course called the Accademia d’Amore in 1997, which is now located in Seattle under the auspices of the Seattle Academy of Opera.
Nominated for a Grammy Award!
Ariadne by Johann Georg
Conradi
“Ariadne is awash with
beautiful music, and it moves along at a pace on this recording, no small thanks
to the bright and efficient musical direction of the lutenists Paul O’Dette and
Stephen Stubbs….a pleasure from start to finish.”
--Opera UK
