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GUEST ARTISTS

ANTHONY ROTH COSTANZO New York, New York

Glimmerglass 2023: Artist-in-Residence and Rinaldo in Rinaldo.

Past: 2022 Grammy Award Winner; Akhnaten, Akhnaten, Metropolitan Opera, English National Opera, LA Opera; Artist-in-Residence, The New York Philharmonic; Anthony Roth Costanzo with Justin Vivian Bond, Only an Octave Apart, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Wilton’s Music Hall.

Future: Orfeo, Orfeo ed Eurydice, Metropolitan Opera; Francisco de Avila, The Exterminating Angel, Paris Opera; Solo Recital, The Kennedy Center. anthonyrothcostanzo.com

JORGE COUSINEAU Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Glimmerglass 2023: Projections Designer for Rinaldo.

Past: Projection Designer, We Shall Not Be Moved, Pittsburgh Opera.

Future: Projection Designer, Titanic, Fulton/Maine State Music State; Projection and Lighting Designer, Infinity, The Coronet Theatre.

BRADLEY DEAN New York, New York

Glimmerglass 2023: Voltaire and Dr. Pangloss in Candide.

Past: Count Carl Magnus, A Little Night Music, Broadway; Monsieur André, Phantom of the Opera, Broadway; Falco, Bat Out of Hell, NYC City Center; Sir Galahad, Monty

Python’s Spamalot, Broadway; Larry, Dear Evan Hansen, Broadway; Tito, A Comedy of Tenors (world premiere), McCarter Theater.

Future: Molykov, Chess, Broadway Spring 2024. bradleydean.net

KEVIN DEPINET Chicago, Illinois

Glimmerglass 2023: Set Designer for La bohème

Past: Set Designer, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, Court Theatre, Writers Theatre, Drury Lane Oakbrook, Chicago

Children’s Theatre.

Future: Set Designer, Prince of Egypt, West End; The King’s Speech, North American Tour. Touring Exhibitions

Designer, The Hunger Games: The Exhibition; Jurassic World: The Exhibition.

DARREN LEKEITH DRONE

Sherwood, Arkansas

Glimmerglass 2023: Marcello in La bohème; Grégorio in Romeo and Juliet

Past: Barone Douphol, La traviata, Seattle Opera; Passenger #7/Bilal/Preacher Man (cover), Proximity, Lyric Opera of Chicago; Falstaff, Falstaff, Opera San José; Moralès, Carmen, Santa Fe Opera.

Future: Belcore, L’elisir d’amore, Florentine Opera; Moralès (cover), Carmen, Metropolitan Opera; Adult James/Foreman and Chester (cover), Fire Shut Up In My Bones, Metropolitan Opera. darrenlekeithdrone.com

ERIC SEAN FOGEL New York, New York

Glimmerglass 2023: Director and Choreographer.

Past: Co-Director, The Sound of Music, Lyric Opera of Kansas City and Houston Grand Opera; Revival Director, Norma, Metropolitan Opera; West Side Story, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari and Lyric Opera of Chicago; Choreographer, Florencia en el Amazonas, Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Future: Director, Songbird, Washington National Opera; Choreographer, Klangwolken. ericseanfogel.com

LAURA FUENTES Fairfax, Virginia

Glimmerglass 2023: Librettist for The Rip Van Winkles.

Past: Las Auténticas, Washington National Opera American Opera Initiative; Colorado Sky, Boulder

Opera/Art Song Colorado; The Fall of Man and Other Tales, ATLAS B2 Blackbox; The Pier Point Lobster Race, College Light Opera Company; In the House of Serenity, Boston Opera Collaborative; Do Not Disturb and Brides and Mothers, Victorian Lyric Opera Company/ Forgotten Opera Company.

Future: Hansel and Gretel, Peabody Opera Theatre/ Annapolis Opera.

KATRINA GALKA Portland, Oregon

Glimmerglass 2023: Cunegonde in Candide.

Past: Blonde, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Staatsoper Hamburg; Blonde, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Bayerische Staatsoper.

Future: First Niece, Peter Grimes, Teatro alla Scala; Adele, Die Fledermaus, Staatsoper Hamburg; Lucia, Lucia di Lammermoor, New Orleans Opera; Blonde, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Opernhaus Zürich. katrinagalka.com

ELIJAH GEBERS Cazenovia, New York

Glimmerglass 2023: Kyle in The Rip Van Winkles; Ensemble in La bohème.

Past: Shere Khan, The Jungle Book, The Glimmerglass Festival; Lumiere, Beauty and the Beast, Cazenovia High School; Deputy, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, CNY Playhouse; Randolph MacAfee, Bye Bye Birdie, Town of Manlius Summer Musical; NYSSMA Conference

All-State Chorus; Alternate, NAFME All-Eastern Choir. Future: Undergraduate, Eastman School of Music, Classical Vocal Performance.

KARA GRADY Cooperstown, New York

Glimmerglass 2023: Ensemble in La bohème

Past: Ensemble, The Sound of Music, The Glimmerglass Festival.

LILLY GRADY Cooperstown, New York

Glimmerglass 2023: Fabiola in The Rip Van Winkles.

Past: Mowgli, The Jungle Book, The Glimmerglass Festival; Ensemble, Noah's Flood, The Cunnin g Little Vixen, La bohème, An American Tragedy, The Glimmerglass Festival.

Future: Undergraduate, Montclair State University, Theatre.

JONATHAN GODDARD London, UK

Glimmerglass 2023: Choreographer for Romeo and Juliet.

Past: Choreographer, Timon of Athens, Shakespeare Theatre Company; Movement Director, The Cherry Orchard, Roundabout Theatre Company; Movement Director/Choreographer, Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Strange Interlude, Man and Superman, The Beaux Stratagem, As You Like It, Sunset at the Villa Thalia, National Theatre; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Donmar Warehouse. jonathangoddard.com

SIMON GODWIN The Plains, Virginia

Glimmerglass 2023: Director for Romeo and Juliet. Past: Associate Director, The Royal Court Theatre, London; Artistic Director, Shakespeare Theatre Company (ongoing).

Future: Associate Director, National Theatre.

KAMNA GUPTA New York, New York

Glimmerglass 2023: Conductor for The Rip Van Winkles.

Past: Conductor, Suzanne Farrin Portrait, International Contemporary Ensemble; Cover Conductor and Chorus Master, Candide, The Atlanta Opera; Music Director, In Our Daughter’s Eyes, Prototype Festival and LA Opera; La Calisto, Mannes Opera; Conductor, The Pearl Fishers, Vancouver Opera.

Future: Conductor, Number Our Days, Perelman Performing Arts Center; Rocking Horse Winner, Tapestry Opera. kamnagupta.com

JASMINE HABERSHAM Macon, Georgia

Glimmerglass 2023: Almirena in Rinaldo; Clorinda in Love & War

Past: Gilda, Rigoletto, Opera North UK; Cleopatra, Giulio Cesare, Atlanta Opera; Susanna, Le nozze di Figaro, Madison Opera; Sophie, Werther, Houston Grand Opera.

Future: Frasquita, Carmen, Gran Teatro del Liceu; Pamina, The Magic Flute, Nashville Opera0; Juliette, Roméo et Juliette, Opera San José jasminehabersham.com

REBECCA HERMAN Austin, Texas

Glimmerglass 2023: Associate Director for La bohème

Past: Associate Director, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, Utah Opera and Calgary Opera; Assistant Director, Tosca, San Diego Opera; Director/Producer, Lardo Weeping, LOLA.

Future: Assistant Director, La traviata, Opera Omaha; Director, Undina, Queen City Opera; Assistant Director, Don Giovanni, Opera Colorado.

ALLISON HILL-EDGAR

Cooperstown, New York

Glimmerglass 2023: Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet

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