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Summers, Patrick

Patrick Summers

(Loogootee, Indiana)

2025–26 Season: Conductor, Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally's Dead Man Walking

San Francisco Opera Highlights: André Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire; Il Trittico; Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Moby-Dick; Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally's Dead Man WalkingSweeney ToddGuillaume Tell

Recent and Upcoming: Le Nozze di Figaro (Houston Grand Opera); Handel's Saul (Houston); Madama Butterfly (Houston); Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers (Houston); Tarik O’Regan’s The Phoenix (Houston); Joel Thompson's The Snowy Day (Houston)

Former Principal Guest Conductor of San Francisco Opera

Artistic and Music Director of Houston Grand Opera

Co-Artistic Director of Aspen Music School’s Aspen Opera Theater and Vocal Arts program

Recipient of the San Francisco Opera Medal 2015

Merola Opera Program: 1986, 1987