Redden at a 1996 rehearsal with Steven Sloane, who served as the festival’s music director from 1996 to 1999, and returned most recently in 2019 to conduct the opera Salome
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Redden, who developed a love of opera as a young boy in Italy, has encouraged bold and often edgy productions, including Don Giovanni (pictured here in 2006), starring (left) Andrey Telegin and Nmon Ford.
