Summers, Patrick

(Washington, Indiana)

2022–23 Season: Conductor, 100th Anniversary Concert

San Francisco Opera Highlights: Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s It’s a Wonderful Life

Recent and Upcoming: Le Nozze di Figaro (Houston Grand Opera); Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers (Houston); Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking (Israeli Opera); Tarik O’Regan’s The Phoenix (Houston); La Favorite (Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu

Former Principal Guest Conductor of San Francisco Opera

Artistic and Music Director of Houston Grand Opera

Co-Artistic Director of Aspen Music School’s Aspen Opera Theater and Vocal Arts program

Recipient of the San Francisco Opera Medal 2015

Author of The Spirit of This Place