This is Steven Osgood’s tenth season as General and Artistic Director of the Chautauqua Opera Company. During his tenure the company has produced operas by Puccini, Verdi, Mozart and Humperdinck alongside contemporary works by Missy Mazzoli, John Corigliano, Philip Glass and others. In 2024 he conducted the world premieres of A.E. Reverie and Love, Loss and the Century Upon Us -- two chamber operas commissioned by Chautauqua Opera. With the 2025 season, the company draws on his vast experience in the development of new works with the New Opera Workshops.  

Steve has conducted the world premieres of over 20 operas, including in recent seasons The Rising World at Seoul Arts Center, Intimate Apparel at Lincoln Center Theater, Breaking the Waves at Opera Philadelphia, JFK at Fort Worth Opera, The Scarlet Ibis, Thumbprint, Blood Moon, and Sumeida’s Song for the PROTOTYPE festival, as well as Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar with Beth Morrison Projects. He has been conductor mentor on two occasions for Washington National Opera’s American Opera Initiative, leading the premieres of six new operas. 

From 2001 to 2008 Steven was Artistic Director of American Opera Projects, where he conducted numerous developmental workshops. He founded the company’s internationally recognized Composers and the Voice Fellowship and remains the program’s Artistic Director. He conducted the premieres of As One in its sold-out run at BAM, and Paula Kimper’s Patience and Sarah at the 1998 Lincoln Center Festival. 

Steve has been a member of the Music Staff at The Metropolitan Opera since 2006, with whom he has conducted workshops of several of the company’s commissions. He made his mainstage conducting debut at the Met in 2023 with Dead Man Walking, and returned to conduct Jeanine Tesori and George Brant’s Grounded in the 2024/25 season.