ANDREW SEIFERT began his professional operatic directing career in his native Napa, California producing four summer’s worth of zarzuela workshops at the Jarvis Conservatory, the only professional Spanish operetta theater in the United States.

After earning a bachelors degree (Chapman University - Orange, California) and a masters degree (University of Washington - Seattle, Washington) in conducting, Andrew went on to complete a doctorate of musical arts degree in opera production (University of Washington).

Passionate about the operatic experience from a musical standpoint as well as a dramatic one, Andrew is also active as an opera coach and educator; he frequently works with collegiate-level singers in a variety of universities and on a wide range of operatic and musical theater repertoire in all the major world languages.

Andrew’s directing and producing credits are numerous and include: Die Zauberflöte (Mozart), Suor Angelica (Puccini), The Old Maid and the Thief (Menotti), Der Jasager (Weill), A Water Bird Talk (Argento), The Women (Pasatieri), L’Enfant et les sortilèges (Ravel), Orphée aux enfers (Offenbach), Trial by Jury (Gilbert and Sullivan), La chulapona (Moreno Torroba), many other zarzuelas, as well as other major operatic and musical theater offerings.