American stage director David Gately made his San Diego Opera debut in 2002 directing Don Pasquale in the “wild west” production, a production also seen at Kentucky Opera, Opera Colorado, Calgary Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Virginia Opera, Dayton Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Opera Omaha, Edmonton Opera and Forth Worth Opera. Recent productions of note include The Elixir of Love with The Dallas Opera and Atlanta Opera, Madama Butterfly with Seattle Opera, La bohème with Florida Grand Opera, Carmen in New Orleans, The Tales of Hoffmann with Edmonton Opera, The Magic Flute with Cincinnati Opera and Vancouver Opera, A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Florentine Opera and Glimmerglass Opera, Falstaff with Opera Omaha and Rigoletto with Utah Opera. Other recent productions include The Barber of Seville with Washington National Opera, Opera Colorado and Manitoba Opera, Simon Boccanegra for L’Opéra de Montréal and Before Night Falls with Fort Worth Opera where he also directed an acclaimed production of Dead Man Walking and Cinderella, among others.