Director
As the Director of Opera at the University of Mobile, Dr. Patrick Jacobs has stage directed more than twenty-five productions. Recent productions include Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, a double-bill of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel with Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges as well as Menotti’s The Consul.
Engagements for 2019-20 included directing Verdi’s La Traviata with Mobile Opera, Iolanthe and Girl Power for the University of Mobile as well as Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette for Mississippi Opera, Natchez Festival of Music, and University of Mobile. The productions of Roméo et Juliette with Mississippi Opera and Natchez Festival of Music were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 2020-2021 season includes directing an online scenes presentation in November for the University of Mobile, a co-production of a double-bill: Mozart’s The Impressario and Salieri’s Prima la musica e poi le parole with the University of Mobile and First Coast Opera (St. Augustine, FL) in January / February, and closes with a new production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte at the University of Mobile in April.
Dr. Jacobs also directed scenes for the International Performing Arts Institute in Kiefersfelden, Germany during the summers of 2011-2014, and plans to return to the faculty in the summer of 2021.
STAGE DIRECTION / MUSICAL DIRECTION / PRODUCTION
Mozart: Così fan tutte
Mozart: Der Schauspieldirektor
Salieri: Prima la musica e poi le parole
Mozart: Der Schauspieldirektor
Scenes: Absence
Gounod: Roméo et Juliettee
Scenes: Girl Power
Sullivan: Iolanthe
Herman: Hello, Dolly!
Scenes: Brush Up Your Shakespeare
Menotti: The Consul
Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel
Ravel: L’enfant et les sortileèges
Flaherty: Ragtime
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
Pergolesi: La Serva Padrona
Monteverdi: Il Combattimento Tancredi e Clorinda
Sullivan: The Gondoliers
Sondheim: Sweeney Todd
Mozart: The Magic Flute
The Drowsy Chaperone
Gala: Songs of Love and Loss
Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance
Strauss: Die Fledermaus
Opera Scenes showcase
Scenes: Opera on the Air including
Menotti: The Old Maid and the Thief
Young Arist Showcase Cabaret
Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors
Sullivan: The Mikado
Role Reversal: A Twisted Broadway Revue
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Seenes: “Everything but the Groom”
Scenes: “Once Upon A Time”
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi
Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors
Mozart: The Magic Flute

The Magic Flute

Iolanthe

The Drowsy Chaperone
