Adam Turner
Currently in his sixth season as Artistic Director of Virginia Opera (following four seasons as Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor), Maestro Adam Turner garners critical acclaim for the breadth of his repertoire, artistic vision, and polished technique. Of his performance of Street Scene with Virginia Opera, Opera News hailed the “sensitive conducting” of Adam Turner “who demonstrated an affinity for a score as stylistically diverse as the characters in the plot” and of his conducting of Der Freischütz, Opera News hailed: “Conductor Adam Turner… ensured crackling rhythms as much as lyrical spaciousness, resulting in a performance that felt vital and spontaneous throughout.” In April at Virginia Opera, Turner was on the podium for the world-premiere of Loving v. Virginia by Damien Geter and Jessica Murphy Moo, commissioned by Virginia Opera. Further appearances last season included his début with the Pacific Symphony for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a return to Toledo Opera conducting Roméo et Juliette, and Central City Opera’s Street Scene. Turner also conducted Virginia Symphony’s To Whitney with Love featuring American Idol-finalist LaKisha Jones in a celebration of the great ladies of soul. In recent seasons, he has conducted Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, La Bohème, Three Decembers, Le Nozze di Figaro, The Pirates of Penzance, Fellow Travelers, and La Traviata at Virginia Opera. Appearing with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra in the “POPS! Concert Series” he has led programs including “Never Break the Chain,” featuring the music of Fleetwood Mac, “Broadway Rocks,” and “Music of the Bee Gees.” He was also recently at the helm for Central City Opera’s productions of Kiss Me, Kate and The Light in the Piazza, Toledo Opera’s Il Trovatore, as well as Portland Symphony Orchestra’s concert “Classical Broadway.” Maestro Turner has conducted Il Trovatore and Roméo et Juliette for Toledo Opera.