Michael Borowitz

Barineau Endowed Professor of Opera
Turner-Fischer Center for Opera

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Biography

Conductor, coach, and pianist Michael Borowitz is in his seventeenth year as Barineau Endowed Professor of Opera and Music Director of the Turner-Fischer Center for Opera at LSU, where this season he conducts Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, the La-La-Palooza Lagniappe Gala, Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, and Heggie's Before It All Goes Dark. As Artistic Director with Opéra Louisiane, Michael will lead performances of Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors and Puccini's Madama Butterfly.

As Ohio Light Opera’s Music Director, this summer Michael will conduct Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady, Rodgers and Hart's The Boys from Syracuse, and Lehár's The Merry Widow. As editor and publisher for Gobblers Run Music Publishing, Michael currently has 22 operatic orchestral reductions available for rent. His recordings include: Offenbach’s Bluebeard, Kern’s Cabaret Girl, Gilbert & Sullivan’s Ruddigore and Patience, Kálmán’s The Duchess of Chicago (DVD), Youman's No, No, Nanette (DVD) and the recital Aux filles du désert with soprano Lisette Oropesa. He is also in his fourteenth year serving as pianist for both New Orleans District and Gulf Coast Regional Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competitions. Michael was Artistic Director of Nevada Opera for nine seasons, and has been guest conductor for La Musica Lirica, OperaFestival di Roma, Baltimore Concert Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Opera Delaware, Pensacola Opera, and Opera Columbus, as well as assistant conductor with The Metropolitan Opera, Indianapolis Opera, and Cleveland Opera.