David Morelock (born on July 16, 1931) is an American stage director of opera. His career was focused on the New Orleans Opera Association, where, following a brief career as a singer, he staged his first opera, Les pêcheurs de perles, in 1971. The ensuing decades saw his "traditional" stagings of Ariadne auf Naxos (with Claire Watson), Lohengrin (with William Cochran), Manon Lescaut (with Nancy Shade and Harry Theyard), Macbeth (with Sherrill Milnes), La favorite, La traviata (with Karan Armstrong), Ernani, Faust (with Luis Lima), Salome, Macbeth again (now with Marisa Galvany), Carmen (with Shirley Verrett), Fidelio, Un ballo in maschera (with Carlo Bergonzi), Samson et Dalila, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Hänsel und Gretel, Lucia di Lammermoor, Otello, Tosca (with Sylvia Sass and Justino Dí