Director
For more than fifteen years, Dr. Patrick Jacobs served as the Director of Opera at the University of Mobile, where he stage directed more than twenty-five productions. Recent highlights include directing Verdi’s La Traviata with Mobile Opera, a co-production of 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) and Puccini’s Suor Angelica with University of Mobile. In addition to directing operas, he is also comfortable staging musical theatre productions. Recent musicals staged include Sweeney Todd, Ragtime, and Hello, Dolly! with the Joe Jefferson Players (Mobile, AL) as well as The Drowsy Chaperone at the University of Mobile.
Dr. Jacobs also directed scenes programs for the International Performing Arts Institute in Kiefersfelden, Germany and LOOK Musical Theatre in Tulsa OK.
Engagements for 2022-2023 include directing Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors at Christ Church Cathedral in Mobile, AL in December of 2022.
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
