John Mauceri
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John Mauceri (b. 1945 in New York) is a music director, producer and composer for theatre, opera and television. He is the only American ever to have held the post of music director of an Opera House in either Britain or Italy. He was music director of the Teatro Regio in Turin for three years, becoming music director of Scottish Opera from 1987 to 1993. Since 2001 he has been the music director of Pittsburgh Opera, and he has been principal conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra since 1991.
He had a small role playing the character of Claude Maginot in 2002's Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
Recently, he has conducted a number of performances of Howard Shore's Lord of the Rings Symphony. On 24-25 February 2006 he conducted the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a concert performance of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess that featured cuts and other changes that Gershwin himself had made in the opera during rehearsals leading up to its premiere by the Theatre Guild.[1] This performance was released on CD, and it was the first time the opera had been recorded in this form; the recording is 145 minutes long, as opposed to the complete opera's 180 minutes.
He appeared briefly as himself in the second episode of the Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip TV series, conducting the fictional "West Coast Philharmonic."
On May 12, 2006, the University of North Carolina Board of Governors unanimously approved the appointment of John Mauceri as the seventh Chancellor of the North Carolina School of the Arts [2].
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