David Lefkowich is an accomplished stage director and fight choreographer and has enjoyed success with different companies including the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, Minnesota Opera, and Glimmerglass Opera. Upcoming directing engagements include Bluebeard’s Castle at Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera and Les contes d’Hoffmann at Florentine Opera.
Recent directing engagements include Hansel and Gretel, The Magic Flute, La Boheme and Madame Butterfly at the Grand Teton Music Festival, Don Giovanni, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliaci at Opera Colorado, a site-specific and fully-immersive Suor Angelica at the Basilica of St Mary which followed a site-specific La Traviata at the Canopy Hotel by Hilton for Out of the Box Opera in Minneapolis and Opera Columbus, Tosca at Austin Opera at a Formula 1 racetrack, a site-specific Acis and Galatea for Out of the Box Opera in the catacombs of a former Pillsbury Mill in Minneapolis and a fully-immersive Pagliacci in a circus at Boston Lyric Opera.
Currently, he is the Artistic Director of Out of the Box Opera in Minneapolis, a company dedicated to creating high-quality operatic experiences in site-specific locations, most notably with Diva Cage Match, an epic battle of voices, egos, and talent in a boxing gym.