BIOGRAPHY

Adam Cioffari is an active administrator, stage director and opera singer known for evocative performances and rich understanding of the operatic canon. Before joining San Diego Opera as Artistic Administrator, Cioffari served in similar roles at the Merola Opera Program at San Francisco Opera, Sarasota Opera, Maryland Lyric Opera and Opera Project Columbus.

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Cioffari was awarded the “Outstanding Stage Director” prize by Theater Tampa Bay for his production of The Merry Widow for St Petersburg Opera, where he has also directed productions of Samson et Dalila, Tosca, Amahl and the Night Visitors and Così fan tutte. Other directorial credits include Tosca with New York City Opera, Le nozze di Figaro and Die Fledermaus with Opera in Wiliamsburg, Rigoletto and Così fan tutte at Shreveport Opera and The Magic Flute at Opera North, and Viva la Mamma for Opera À La Carte. In 2027, he will direct his first musical: The Light in the Piazza at Wichita Grand Opera.

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As a bass-baritone, Cioffari has performed around the world with companies including New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Festival, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Central City Opera, Dayton Opera, Castleton Festival, Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Knoxville Opera, Opera Columbus, Pittsburgh Festival Opera, and Austin Opera, Theatre Capitole de Toulouse, Staatsoper Stuttgart, and Komische Oper Berlin.

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Cioffari is an alumnus of the Houston Grand Opera Studio, the Merola Opera Program, Music Academy of the West, and Aspen Opera Theater. He is a graduate of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.