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On Directing, Teaching, and Creating with AI


Reflections on AI, Alcina, and the Artistic Process
Who I Am, and Why I Did This I am a professor and director of opera at a state university, a position I have held for more than fifteen years. I create art on a limited budget, from a deeply student-centered point of view, and I frequently adapt or modernize works in order to promote engagement and learning. I operate in a high–resource-demand art form within a chronically scarce-resource environment. I approached Alcina in a spirit of curiosity about what AI might bring to o

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Feb 5


Something ChatGPT Does Really Well (Mostly): Scheduling
Over the past 15 years of directing opera, I’ve found that a subset of my students needs an exceptionally clear, transparent rehearsal...

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Sep 8, 2025


Callbacks, Cuts, and Collaboration
Why Callback Sides Matter As part of our upcoming Alcina production, Victoria Shively and I needed to create callback sides for all of...

drakedantzler
Sep 5, 2025
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