Andrew Eggert

Position
Associate Professor of Opera
Affiliated Departments

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Andrew Eggert joined the Conservatory in 2021 and is an opera stage director and dramaturg. 

Prior to joining Boston Conservatory, Eggert served as senior manager, artistic, of Boston Lyric Opera (2019–2021) and head of opera at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University (2013–2019). He received a Fulbright grant to lead a workshop on contemporary American opera at Budapest’s Liszt Academy (2017). 

He has collaborated with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on concert performances of Der Rosenkavalier (2016), Das Rheingold (2017), and Die Walküre (2019) in Boston and at Tanglewood. Other directing projects have included Dido and Aeneas (Pegasus Early Music, 2017), La descente d’Orphée aux enfers (Gotham Chamber Opera, 2014), and Death and the Powers (Dallas Opera, 2014), as well as the U.S. premiere of Clemency by James MacMillan (Boston Lyric Opera, 2013) and Bluebeard’s Castle (2013) and Così fan tutte (2017) for Opera Omaha. He has enjoyed a longstanding relationship with Chicago Opera Theater, where he directed Mosè in Egitto (2010) and La Tragédie de Carmen (2009) and served eight seasons as an assistant director. He has frequently collaborated with stage director Diane Paulus, having served as associate director on a number of projects at the American Repertory Theater, Chicago Opera Theater, Canadian Opera Company, Gotham Chamber Opera, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He has been a guest director at Princeton University and the Yale Baroque Opera Project and has worked with the young artist programs of Glimmerglass Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, and NAPA Music Festival. His production of Mourning Becomes Electra was selected as a winner of Opera America’s Director-Designer Showcase (2009).

Eggert earned his B.A. in English from Yale University and his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from Columbia University.

Awards
  • Fulbright Specialist Program (2017)
  • Delmas Fellowship for Independent Study in Venice (2010–2011)
  • Opera America Director-Designer Showcase (2009)