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Ian Campbell has been the General Director and
Artistic Director of San Diego Opera since 1983. Campbell was born in Australia,
and is a graduate of the University of Sydney. He also holds the two
designations of Fellow, and Certified Professional Manager, from the Australian
Institute of Management.
For forty years Campbell has worked in opera as a singer, stage director,
administrator, radio broadcaster and writer. As a stage director his work
includes La bohème (1981) and The
Tales of Hoffmann (1982) for The State Opera of South Australia;
Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci for Santa Barbara Grand Opera
(1999); Falstaff (1999), Il trovatore (2000), Tosca
(2002), Katya Kabanova, La traviata (2004) and La bohème
(2005) for San Diego Opera.
Campbell began his operatic career in 1967 as a principal character tenor with
the Australian Opera and sang until 1974. He then moved into management as
Senior Music Officer for the Australia Council from 1974 to 1976 and was General
Manager of The State Opera of South Australia in Adelaide from 1976 to 1982.
In 1982 he joined the Metropolitan Opera in New York as Assistant Artistic
Administrator, and in July 1983 became General Director of San Diego Opera.
Campbell is a past Chairman of Opera America, and locally has been a member of
the Board of Directors of the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau,
an Advisory Member for UCSD-TV, and a member of the Advisory Board for the degree
in non-profit management at the University of San Diego.
He was a Guest Professor of Music at San Diego State University in 1986,
conducted annual master classes for singers at the Music Academy of the West in
Santa Barbara for seven years, and chaired the judging panel for the
Metropolitan Opera auditions in the Sydney Opera House in Australia in August
1989.
Campbell was the San Diego Press Club Headliner of the Year for the Arts in
1991, and in 1997 was chosen as one of the Fathers of the Year for San Diego. In
2004 he received Sydney University’s prestigious Wolfensohn Award for “the
betterment of society and his profession.”
For 20 years Campbell produced and hosted programs on San Diego radio, and in
2003 his program “At the Opera with Ian Campbell” was awarded both First Place
for a radio series, and Best of Show for radio by the San Diego Press Club.
He lives in Point Loma with his wife, Ann, and two sons.
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