YOUNG ARTISTS PROGRAM

MARINETTE GOMEZ Jacksonville, Florida

Glimmerglass 2023: Assistant Director for Rinaldo and Love & War

Past: Stage Director, A Hand of Bridge, UNF Affiliated Project; Assistant Director, La bohème, Jacksonville Symphony; Stage Manager, The Magic Flute, Jacksonville Symphony.

Future: Director, Suor Angelica, Bold City Opera.

EMILY HARMON Barrington, New Hampshire

Glimmerglass 2023: Ensemble and Baroness/ Vanderdendur (cover) in Candide; Ensemble in Romeo and Juliet.

Past: Suzuki (cover), Madama Butterfly Central City Opera; Third Place Winner, Mildred Miller International Voice Competition; Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney Todd, Lowell House Opera; Marcellina, Le nozze di Figaro, Boston Opera Collaborative; Old Lady, Candide, Opera del West; Amastre, Xerxes, Pittsburgh Festival Opera. emily-harmon.com

MADISON HERTEL Traverse City, Michigan

Glimmerglass 2023: Ensemble/Dancer/ Dance Captain and Paquette (cover) in Candide; Dancer/Actor in Rinaldo.

Past: Anybodys, West Side Story, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari; Associate Choreographer/Sister

Sophia/US Liesl and Louisa, The Sound of Music, Arizona Opera; Principal Dancer, Carmen Portland Opera; Principal Dancer, Carmen, The Glimmerglass Festival; Nun/Liesl and Louisa (cover), The Sound of Music The Glimmerglass Festival; Bagheera, The Jungle Book The Glimmerglass Festival; Co-Choreographer, Inherited by Word of Mouth, NYS DanceForce Choreographers Initiative. madisonhertel.com

GRANT JACKSON Columbus, Ohio

Glimmerglass 2023: Ensemble and Schaunard (cover) in La bohème; Ensemble in Romeo and Juliet; Milo in The Rip Van Winkles.

Past: Don Giovanni (cover), Don Giovanni, Rice University; Pallante, Agrippina, Rice University; Cuno (cover), Der Freischütz, Queen City Opera; Dr. Falke, Die Fledermaus, Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music; Sam, Trouble in Tahiti, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music; Alidoro (cover), La Cenerentola Queen City Opera; Mr. Gedge, Albert Herring, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

JORRELL LAWYER-JEFFERSON

Copperas Cove, Texas

Glimmerglass 2023: Ensemble/Dancer in La bohème and Candide; Choreographer for Rinaldo

Past: Featured Dancer, The Glimmerglass Festival; Choreographer, Aida, Houston Grand Opera; Swing, Carmen, Houston Grand Opera.

Future: Company Member, The Big Muddy Dance Company.

RYAN JOHNSON Muleshoe, Texas

Glimmerglass 2023: Grand Inquisitor/ Governor in Candide; Ensemble and Tybalt (cover) in Romeo and Juliet

Past: Ira, Sky on Swings, Saratoga Opera; Frederic, The Pirates of Penzance Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; Borsa, Rigoletto Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; Male Chorus, The Rape of Lucretia Lyric Theatre; Rodolfo, La bohème, Lyric Theatre; Don Ottavio, Don Giovanni Lyric Theatre.

ROBERT KAHN Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

Glimmerglass 2023: Assistant Conductor for La bohème and Romeo and Juliet

Past: Cover Conductor, New York Philharmonic; Assistant Conductor, Tenor Overboard, The Glimmerglass Festival; The Sound of Music, The Glimmerglass Festival.

Future: Conductor, Iceland Overtone Industries; Assistant Conductor, Suor Angellica/Gianni Schicchi, Julliard; Assistant Conductor, Don Giovanni AVA Philidelphia; Assistant Conductor, Don Pasquale, AVA Philidelphia. robertkahn.com

EMILIE KEALANI San Francisco, California

Glimmerglass 2023 Musetta in La bohème Almirena (cover) in Rinaldo.

Past Dalinda in Ariodante, Curtis Opera Theatre, The Kimmel Center; Adina, L’elisir d’amore, Curtis Opera Theatre, Philadelphia Film Center; Miss Jessel, The Turn of the Screw Curtis Opera Theatre, Philadelphia Film Center; Opera Chorus, Carmen/Falstaff/M.Butterfly Santa Fe Opera; Sophie, Der Rosenkavalier, Apprentice Scenes, Santa Fe Opera. emiliekealani.com

NICHOLAS KELLIHER Baldwin, New York

Glimmerglass 2023: Ensemble in La bohème; Sorcerer and Goffredo (cover) in Rinaldo

Past: Oberon (cover), A Midsummer Night’s Dream Des Moines Metro Opera; Semifinalist, Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition; Cardinal 1, Galileo Galilei Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music; Man Under the Arch, The Hours Cincinnati Opera Fusion; Alto Soloist, St. John Passion Bach Society of Dayton.

HAYLEY MALONEY Covington, Kentucky

Glimmerglass 2023 Ensemble in La bohème and Romeo and Juliet

Past Sagredo/Marie/Eos, Galileo Galilei, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music; Miss Hayes/Young Artist, Susannah Wolf Trap Opera; Laura Gates, Tale for a Deaf Ear, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music; Florence Pike in Albert Herring, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. hayleymaloney.com