Jay Scheib
Section Head
Music and Theater Arts
Jay Scheib is the Section Head for Music and Theater Arts and the Class of 1949 Professor. He’s developed an approach to contemporary performance featuring an improvisation-rich approach to physical performance with a live cinema, technology-forward stage aesthetic.
Scheib’s most recent works including a new staging of Richard Wagner’s Parsifal for the Bayreuther Festspiele, in Germany and the world of premiere of Paola Prestini’s opera at the intersection of AI and disability, Sensorium Ex. Thomas Adès’ Powder her Face with New York City Opera, The Medea after Euripides, Müller, Passolini, Beethoven’s Fidelio, the Montiverdi opera Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, as well and many of his own original adaptations including Platonov, or the Disinherited after Chekhov, the Simulated Cities / Simulated Systems trilogy, and two live cinema Bergman adaptations – the Keeril Makan composed opera Persona, and a theatrical staging of The Silence.
