Conductor Mark Flint has led the majority of orchestras in world-renowned opera houses and symphonies throughout the United States and Canada. A native of West Virginia, Maestro Flint frequently guest conducts with New York City Opera, L’Opera de Montreal, Michigan Opera Theatre, Opera Pacific, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Florida Grand Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Fort Worth Opera, Arizona Opera, Hawaii Opera Theatre, Orlando Opera, Nashville Opera, Kentucky Opera, Central City Opera, Lake George Opera Festival, Chautauqua Opera, and Opera Columbus. With symphony orchestras, he has guest conducted with the Orchestre National de Lyon, L’Orchestre Metropolitan de Montreal, the Detroit Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony, the Fort Worth Symphony, Chautauqua Festival Orchestra, among others.

Maestro Flint orchestrated the new David DiChiera / Bernard Uzan opera Cyrano, which he conducted in October 2007 at the Michigan Opera Theatre. Additional recent engagements include The Merry Widow with Florentine Opera of Milwaukee, Roméo et Juliette with Hawaii Opera Theatre, Die Fledermaus and Die Entführung aus dem Serail at Opera New Jersey, Hansel and Gretel at Syracuse Opera, Carmen at Michigan Opera Theatre, Il Trovatore with Nashville Opera, La Traviata with Lake George Opera Festival, La Bohème at Fresno Grand Opera, and Augusta Opera’s productions of La Tradegie de Carmen, I Pagliacci and Sweeney Todd. Next, he returns to Opera New Jersey for Faust, returns to Hawaii Opera Theatre for Faust,returns to Michigan Opera Theatre for The Mikado, returns to the Shreveport Opera for Don Giovanni, and conducts a remount of Cyrano at the Florida Grand Opera.

Noted engagements include the world premiere of Ned Rorem’s Our Town at Lake George Opera, and the International premiere of Tobias Picker’s Thérese Raquin at L’Opera de Montreal, where he has also conducted Die Zauberflöte, Susannah, La Bohème, Rigoletto, La Fille du Régiment, Orphee aux Enfers, La Cenerentola,and La Traviata.Maestro Flint recently returned to the Nashville Opera for several productions including Madama Butterfly, Faust, Tosca, Lucia di Lammermoor, La Traviata, Carmen and Salome,and returned to Hawaii Opera for Samson et Dalila, Rigoletto, Carmen, The Merry Widow and The Flying Dutchman.With the Michigan Opera Theatre, he has returned for several season to conduct Roméo et Juliette, Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Lakme and Faust, as well as returning to Orlando Opera for Roméo et Juliette and Carmina Burana/I Pagliacci, Fort Worth Opera for Pirates of Penzance,and Lake George Opera for I Pagliacci.