Advisory Board
The Off-Brand Opera Advisory Board is comprised of high-level artistic industry professionals who act as artistic mentors, sharing valuable feedback on our programming, performances, and continued company development.
Mark Campbell
The Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award-winning operas of librettist/lyricist Mark Campbell are among the most successful in the contemporary canon. Mark has written 41 opera librettos, lyrics for 7 musicals and text for 11 song cycles and 5 oratorios. His works include Silent Night, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, As One, Elizabeth Cree, The Shining, Sanctuary Road, As One, The Manchurian Candidate, A Nation of Others, Stonewall, The Nefarious, Immoral but Highly Profitable Enterprise of Burke & Hare, A Thousand Acres, Bastianello/Lucrezia, Edward Tulane, The Cook-Off, Unruly Sun, Later the Same Evening and Songs from an Unmade Bed. Mark mentors future generations of librettists and composers at the American Opera Project, American Lyric Theatre and as a founding member of the American Opera Initiative. He created and funds the Campbell Opera Librettist Prize, the first award for opera librettists in the history of the art form and co-created the True Voice Award to support the training of transgender and non-binary singers. He was recently awarded the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Opera Association. www.markcampbellwords.com
Andrea DelGiudice
Andrea DelGiudice’s credits include an international career in Europe and the United States as a leading soprano and a female centered, conceptual stage director. She has performed at such prestigious venues as the Scottish National Opera, Munich State Opera, Liege Opera, Opera Bonn, Edmonton Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, and Arizona Opera alongside renowned artists such as Placido Domingo, Johan Botha, and Sherill Milnes. She made her directing debut with her edgy, female-driven conceptual productions of Verdi’s La Traviata followed by Bizet’s Carmen at the Axelrod Performing Arts Center as well as Italy’s Narnia Festival, followed by a newly imagined double bill of Puccini’s Suor Angelica with the world premiere of Pietà (directed and conceived by Andrea DelGiudice and composed by Jake Landau). This year she directed the American Premiere of Pietà and Suor Angelica at Oklahoma City University. Recent projects include La Bohème (Light Opera of New Jersey), Don Giovanni (Seton Hall), Dido and Aeneas, & Aeterna, (another Landau/DelGiudice collaboration), and Hansel and Gretel (Narnia Festival). Ms. DelGiudice is one of the most sought-after voice teachers and vocal consultants in New York City with students currently engaged nationally and internationally. Andrea is represented by Randsman Artists Management. andreadelgiudice.net
Brian Staufenbiel
Brian Staufenbiel is the creative director for Opera Parallèle where he has directed and created the conceptual designs of the company’s productions since it was founded in 2010. His progressive approach to stagecraft has garnered critical acclaim for many of the company’s productions, including Wozzeck, Orphée, Champion and Dead Man Walking. Staufenbiel recently directed films for the online festival season of the Sun Valley Music Festival, a film of Dove/Angelis’ Flight for Seattle Opera, an award-winning graphic novel film of Talbot/Scheer’s Everest with Opera Parallèle, and a feature-length film of Gordon Getty’s opera Goodbye Mr. Chips. Last season included new productions of Moravec and Campbell’s The Shining, a fully immersive experience of Talbot and Scheer’s Everest for Opera Parallèle, and Golijov’s Ainadamar for L’Opera de Montréal. Staufenbiel directed a new documentary about the life of Frederica Von Stade with Paper Wings Films and co-directed, with choreographer Yayoi Kambara, IKKAI, a dance installation about Japanese incarceration camps in the United States during World War II, which was performed at Georgia Tech last summer. Staufenbiel recently created a new production of Elektra for Minnesota Opera. His 2016 production of Das Rheingold for Minnesota Opera was reprised at Arizona Opera and L’Opéra de Montréal and opened the 60th season at Seattle Opera in 2023. It was named a Star Tribune Classical Pick of the Decade. Other recent projects include the premiere of Miguel Zenon’s Golden City Suite with SF JAZZ, and a new production of Gordon Getty’s Usher House and Canterville Ghost for the Center of Contemporary Opera in NY and LA Opera.