Christopher Lacy (23/09/1956), an American composer, born in San Francisco, California USA. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Arkansas, where he serves as Artistic Director of the University Opera Theater. As a stage director, his productions at UAF have included La Boheme, La Traviata, The Turn of the Screw, The Medium, La Voix Humaine, Rinaldo and Suor Angelica. His other duties at the University of Arkansas include the teaching of Italian, French, and German diction, as well as Vocal Literature. In 2001, he founded the Fayetteville Opera Chorus and serves as its conductor.In the summer of 2001, he was on the artistic staff of Spazio Musica Orvieto, in Orvieto, Italy for a production of Verdi's Falstaff, working under Graziella Ravazzi and Ricardo Marsano of La Scala Milano.