Tag archives: Mo Zhou

‘Don Giovanni’ in Tinseltown
By Steven Libowitz   |   July 22, 2025

Opera director Mo Zhou made her Music Academy of the West debut two summers ago with a reimagining of La bohème – from 1830s Paris to Brooklyn in 2011. This weekend, Zhou and the talented MAW vocal and instrumental fellows take on Mozart’s Don Giovanni, with the director moving the time and place from Spain […]

A Bohemian Occupation
By Steven Libowitz   |   July 18, 2023

Mo Zhou wasn’t sure what the Academy’s new vocal program directors Sasha Cooke and John Churchwell had in mind when they asked her to helm this summer’s production of La bohème. A traditional take with period costumes and mid-19th century mannerisms? Something more modern?  Instead, they asked Zhou, who had assistant directed three previous productions […]