Home Alone—Film with Live Orchestra

Constantine Kitsopoulos has established himself as a dynamic conductor known for his ability to work in many different genres and settings.  He is equally at home with opera, symphonic repertoire, film with live orchestra, music theatre, and composition.  His work has taken him all over the world where he has conducted the major orchestras of North America, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and the Tokyo Philharmonic.

In addition to Maestro Kitsopoulos’ engagements as guest conductor, he is Music Director of the Festival of the Arts Boca and General Director of Chatham Opera.  He is General Director of the New York Grand Opera and is working with the company to bring opera, free and open to the public, back to New York’s Central Park.

During the 2019-20 season Maestro Kitsopoulos will conduct return engagements with the Dallas Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Toronto Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Santa Barbara Symphony, Hartford Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and Indiana University.

Highlights of the 2018-19 season included return engagements with the Dallas Symphony, Detroit Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Houston Symphony, Toronto Symphony, New York Philharmonic, and Louisiana Philharmonic.  Kitsopoulos also conducted Leonard Bernstein’s Mass at Indiana University Opera Theatre.  Debuts included engagements with the Seattle Symphony, and Phoenix Symphony.

Maestro Kitsopoulos’ has developed semi-staged productions of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, for which he has written a new translation, Don Giovanni, and La Bohème.  He has conducted IU Opera Theatre’s productions of Falstaff, Die Fledermaus, A View from the Bridge, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Most Happy Fella, South Pacific, Oklahoma, The Music Man and The Last Savage.  He was Assistant Chorus Master at New York City Opera from 1984-1989.

On Broadway Maestro Kitsopoulos has been Music Director of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess (cast album on PS Classics), A Catered Affair (cast album on PS Classics), Coram Boy, Baz Luhrmann’s Production of Puccini’s La Bohème (cast album on DreamWorks Records), Swan Lake, and Les Misérables.  He was Music Director of ACT’s production of Weill/Brecht’s Happy End and made the only English language recording of the piece for Sh-K-Boom Records.

Maestro Kitsopoulos studied piano with Marienka Michna, Chandler Gregg, Edward Edson, and Sophia Rosoff.  He studied conducting with Semyon Bychkov, Sergiu Commissiona, Gustav Meier and his principal teacher Vincent La Selva.

The Vocal Department at Kinder HSPVA includes 105 auditioned vocal majors who are members of either Chorale or Concert Singers. Upper-level singers perform in a specialized Chamber or Pop/Jazz style ensemble. Over their four years, vocalists study class voice, perform in yearly voice recitals, and take academic music classes. They consistently earn membership in TMEA Region and All-State choirs, earn Sweepstakes at UIL Concert and Sight-Reading evaluations, and perform throughout the city. In 2017, the non-varsity treble choir was honored to be a TMEA Invited Choir. HSPVA Madrigals has twice won the American Classics Madrigal and Chamber festival and has been named a choir of distinction many times. Chorale has won first place in the American Classics Celebration of Excellence and was named first runner up in Spring 2022.