
Gregory Buchalter
Music Director and Conductor
Gregory Buchalter currently holds the title of Music Director and Conductor of both Varna International and Vero Beach Opera and is in high demand as a guest conductor throughout the world. He has received rave reviews for his frequent appearances at the Florida Grand Opera. He regularly conducts the South Florida Symphony and has made recent appearances with Teatro Lirica D'europa, the Vienna Summer Music Festival, Opera Orlando and the New England Conservatory of Music. Internationally, Maestro Buchalter made his debut with the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra earlier this year and has conducted Salome at the Savonlinna Opera Festival, Die Fledermaus at the Vienna Volksoper, Mozart’s Entführung aus dem Serail at the Spoleto Festival, Cosi fan Tutte with the Mediterranean Opera Festival in Italy, Eugene Onegin with the New Opera World Festival in Moscow, Don Giovanni in Belgrade and many operas at Varna International including the Bulgarian premieres of Candide and Kurt Weil's Street Scene.
Recently Maestro Buchalter had a very successful run of Verdi’s Requiem throughout Italy with Varna International. This past year he made his debut in Latvia conducting concerts at the Latvia Academy of Music. He recently made his debut with Mobile Opera and will return this Fall for Die Fledermaus. He has conducted the American Premieres of Mercadante’s I due Figaro, Von Winter’s Das Labyrinth and Donizetti’s Olivo e Pasquale in New York City.
Maestro Buchalter was Music and Artistic Director of Opera Fairbanks and Opera Las Vegas. For many seasons he was a Cover Conductor and the Maestro di Banda at the Metropolitan Opera.