 In Spring of 1983 he conducted student performances of Puccini's "Madame Butterfly", and in 1984 he conducted the Spring production of Gilbert & Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance".Morehead was the cover conductor for the Lyric Opera of Chicago for "Die Meistersinger", "Jenůfa", "Der fliegende Holländer", "", "Billy Budd" and others.He conducted performances of "Un ballo in maschera", "The Mikado" and "Die Fledermaus" and the premiere production of Anthony Davis's "Amistad"  and student performances of "La traviata", "The Cunning Little Vixen", and "Carmen".