YOUNG ARTISTS PROGRAM

SERGIO MARTÍNEZ Bogotá D.C., Columbia

Glimmerglass 2023: Ensemble and Benoit/ Alcindoro (cover) in La bohème; Friar Laurence and Duke of Verona (cover) in Romeo and Juliet Bass in Love & War

Past: Zuniga, Carmen The Glimmerglass Festival; Sparafucile, Rigoletto, Resonance Works; Gouverneur, Le Comte Ory, Yale Opera; Don Alfonso, Così fan tutte The Opera Next Door; Basilio, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Opera de Colombia; The Bonze, Madama Butterfly, Opera de Colombia. sergiomartinezbass.com

JOHN MBURU Warwick, Rhode Island

Glimmerglass 2023: Ensemble and Colline (cover) in La bohème Duke of Verona and Friar Laurence (cover) in Romeo and Juliet.

Past: Pallante in Agrippina Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music; First Man (cover), Castor and Patience, Cincinnati Opera; Chorus, Aida, Cincinnati Opera; Pope Urban VIII, Galilei Galileo Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music; Bartolo, Le nozze di Figaro Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

PETER MURPHY Lowell, Massachusetts

Glimmerglass 2023: Ensemble/Dancer in Candide; Dancer/Actor in Rinaldo

Past: Ensemble, Rent, Ithaca College; Robbie Hart, Wedding Singer Palace Teen Company; Ensemble/Musidorous (cover), Head Over Heels, Ithaca College; Ensemble, Wizard of Oz, Palace Theatres; Billy Lawlor, 42nd Street, Actor’s Incorporated.

MARIO PACHECO Toronto, Ontario

Glimmerglass 2023: Assistant Director for Candide

Past: Assistant Stage Director, The Magic Flute, Tosca, Ariadne auf Naxos The Falling and The Rising, Arizona Opera; The Magic Flute Canadian Opera Company.

JONATHAN PATTON Durango, Colorado

Glimmerglass 2023: Marcello (cover) in La bohème; Martin/James in Candide; Paris in Romeo and Juliet

Past: Marcello, La bohème Washington National Opera; Demon, Bubbie and the Demon Washington National Opera; Tarquinius, The Rape of Lucretia, University of North Texas; Marco, Gianni Schicchi Festival Napa Valley. jonathan-patton.com

JONATHAN PIERCE RHODES

Orlando, Florida

Glimmerglass 2023: Cacambo and Candide (cover) in Candide; Ensemble in La bohème

Past: Frank, The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson, The Washington National Opera; Cherubiel, Holy Ground, The Glimmerglass Festival; Frank, The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson, The Glimmerglass Festival. Jonathanpiercerhodes.com

LISA MARIE ROGALI Hawley, Pennsylvania

Glimmerglass 2023: Paquette in Candide; Stéphano in Romeo and Juliet.

Past: Mercédès, Carmen, The Glimmerglass Festival; Sister Sophia and Maria (cover), The Sound of Music The Glimmerglass Festival; Princess/Lucy, Edward Tulane, Minnesota Opera; Papagena, The Magic Flute, The Glimmerglass Festival; Tina, Flight Minnesota Opera. Future Lapák, The Cunning Little Vixen, Detroit Opera. lisamarierogali.com

ZACHARY RIOUX

Grand Falls, New Brunswick, Canada

Glimmerglass 2023: Parpignol and Rodolfo (cover) in La bohème; Ensemble and Benvolio (cover) in Romeo and Juliet

Past Rodolfo, La bohème Academy of Vocal Arts; Lensky, Eugene Onegin, Academy of Vocal Arts; Cavaradossi, Tosca (concert), Toronto City Opera.

Future: Tenor Soloist, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Beethovenfest Bonn. zacharyriouxtenor.com

AMANDA SHERIFF Houston, Texas

Glimmerglass 2023: Ensemble in Candide and Romeo and Juliet; Callista in The Rip Van Winkles.

Past: Miss Jessel, The Turn of the Screw, Opera Baltimore; Despina,Così fan tutte, Opera Delaware; Lotte Lenya First Prize Winner, Kurt Weill Foundation. amandasheriff-soprano.com

ALEX SMITH Kalamazoo, Michigan

Glimmerglass 2023: Sergeant/Ensemble in La bohème; Ensemble and Grégorio/Paris/Duke of Verona (cover) in Romeo and Juliet.

Past: Raimbaud, Le Comte Ory, Yale Opera; Junius, The Rape of Lucretia, Yale Opera; Musiklehrer, Ariadne auf Naxos Yale Opera; Il marito, Amelia al ballo, Oberlin Opera Theater; Tom/John, The Face on the Barroom Floor Oberlin Opera Theater; Guglielmo, Così fan tutte Oberlin Opera Theater; Peter Quince, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Oberlin Opera Theater.

HAYDEN SMITH Quakertown, Pennsylvania

Glimmerglass 2023: Ensemble in La bohème; Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet, Frank in The Rip Van Winkles.

Past: Nemorino, L’elisir d’amore Opera in the Heights; Elder Hayes, Susannah, Wolf Trap Opera; Giuseppe, La traviata, Wolf Trap Opera; Don Ottavio, Don Giovanni, Rice University; Alfred, Die Fledermaus, Temple University; Peter Quint, The Turn of the Screw, Temple University. haydensmithtenor.com

EMMA SUCATO Dallas, Texas

Glimmerglass 2023: Ensemble/Dancer in Candide Ensemble/Dancer in La bohème; Dancer/Actor in Rinaldo

Past: Assistant Choreographer, Sweet Charity Syracuse University; Ensemble, The Drowsy Chaperone, Mainstage Irving.