MUSIC STAFF

J. BRADLEY BAKER Waco, Texas

Glimmerglass 2023: Principal Coach for La bohème.

Past: Music Director, Music On Site, Inc. (ongoing); Assistant Conductor, Two Remain, Lyric Opera of Orange County; Conductor, La finta giardiniera, Opera Seme; Guest Coach, Così fan tutte, Opera Arlington; Conductor, Così fan tutte, Music On Site, Inc.

Future: Music Director, Le nozze di Figaro, Landlocked Opera.

ANNA BETKA Toronto, Ontario

Glimmerglass 2023: Youth Chorus Director for La bohème; Principal Coach for Romeo and Juliet.

Past: Assistant Coach, Falstaff, Madama Butterfly, Palm Beach Opera; Principal Coach, Così fan tutte, Palm Beach Opera; Coach, Carmen, Canadian Opera Company; Principal Coach, Tenor Overboard, The Glimmerglass Festival; Youth Chorus Director, The Sound of Music, The Jungle Book, The Glimmerglass Festival.

CHRISTOPHER DEVLIN Montréal, Québec

Glimmerglass 2023: Head of Music; Diction Coach for Romeo and Juliet; Principal Coach/ Ripieno for Rinaldo.

Past: Music Staff/Harpsichordist, Così fan tutte, The Dallas Opera; Music Staff, Rigoletto, The Dallas Opera.

Future: Music Staff, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Elektra, Roméo et Juliette, Tosca, The Dallas Opera.

ANDREA GRANT Toronto, Ontario

Glimmerglass 2023: Director of the Young Artists Program.

Past: Head of Music, Coach, Ein Wintermärchen, Wexford Festival Opera; Coach, La traviata, Canadian Opera Company; Coach, Chorus Master, Il cappello di paglia di Firenze, Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, UBC Opera.

Future: Coach, Chorus Master, The Cunning Little Vixen, Cendrillon, Così fan tutte, UBC Opera.

KATHERINE KOZAK Phoenix, Arizona

Glimmerglass 2023: Chorus Director for La bohème, Candide, and Romeo and Juliet.

Past: Head of Music, Chorus Master, Principal Coach of the Pullin Opera Studio, Arizona Opera (ongoing); Chorus Director, The Glimmerglass Festival.

KATHRYN LABOUFF Englewood, New Jersey

Glimmerglass 2023: Diction Coach for Candide.

Past: Diction Coach, The Magic Flute, Cinderella, Hamlet, The Hours, El Niño, Metropolitan Opera; Diction Coach, Sweeney Todd, Showboat, The Cunning Little Vixen, West Side Story, The Crucible, Blue, Silent Night, The Ghosts of Versailles, The Sound of Music, Taking Up Serpents, Holy Ground, The Glimmerglass Festival; Die Fledermaus, Candide, Doctor Atomic, Ariadne auf Naxos, Santa Fe Opera.

GRANT WENAUS New York, New York

Glimmerglass 2023: Principal Coach for Candide.

Past: Principal Coach, The Sound of Music, Songbird, Kiss Me, Kate, Sweeney Todd, Camelot, Candide, The Glimmerglass Festival; Conductor, The Magic Flute, L’enfant et les sortilèges, Dido and Aeneas, Orpheus in the Underworld, The Merry Widow, Ragtime, City of Angels, The Light in the Piazza, NYU Steinhardt; Conductor, Of Thee I Sing, A Little Night Music, Anything Goes, University of Michigan.

CARLOS AHRENS Cincinnati, Ohio

Glimmerglass 2023: Ensemble and Cacambo (cover) in Candide; Ensemble in Romeo and Juliet

Past: Ferrando, Così fan tutte, Vanderbilt Opera Theatre; The Mayor, Albert Herring, Vanderbilt Opera Theatre; Tamino, Die Zauberflöte, Trentino Music Festival; Rinuccio, Gianni Schicchi, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music; The First Commissioner, Dialogues des Carmélites, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

Future: Tenor Soloist, The Creation, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

HENRY BENSON Madison, Wisconsin

Glimmerglass 2023: Minister/Ensemble in Candide; Prune Man/Ensemble and Parpignol (cover) in La bohème

Past: Timothy Laughlin, Fellow Travelers, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music; Artist-in-Residence, Dayton Opera; Orville/ Wilbur Wright (cover), Finding Wright, Dayton Opera; Cincinnati Opera Chorus, Cincinnati Opera; Fenton, Falstaff, Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music.

LAURA BLEAKLEY Honolulu, Hawaii

Glimmerglass 2023: Pianist/Coach for Candide and Romeo and Juliet.

Past: Gerdine Young Artist, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; Resident Artist, Utah Opera; Festival Artist, Opera Saratoga.

Future: Resident Artist, Utah Opera.

KAILEE BRANDT Honolulu, Hawaii

Glimmerglass 2023: Ensemble/Dancer in Candide and La bohème; Dancer in Love & War

Past: Mersister/Gull/Ensemble, Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Syracuse Stage; Amina, Dance Nation, Syracuse Department of Drama; Cameron Ross, Hawaii Five-O. kaileereganbrandt.com

JUSTIN BURGESS Silver Spring, Maryland

Glimmerglass 2023: Schaunard in La bohème; Martin/James (cover) in Candide; Ensemble in Romeo and Juliet.

Past: Schaunard (Young Artist), La bohème, Washington National Opera; Steuermann, Tristan und Isolde, Santa Fe Opera; Ty, A Thousand Acres (workshop), Des Moines Metro Opera; Cardinal 2/Servant/Oracle 2, Galileo Galilei, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music; Count Almaviva, Le nozze di Figaro, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music; Fiorello, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Wolf Trap Opera. justinburgessbaritone.com

BRIDGET CAPPEL Dallas, Texas

Glimmerglass 2023: Ensemble in La bohème; Ensemble in Romeo and Juliet; Rinaldo (cover) in Rinaldo.

Past: Rosina, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Shreveport Opera; Flora, La traviata, Shreveport Opera; La Poésie, Les Arts Florissants, The Dallas Bach Society; Toypurina, Zorro, Fort Worth Opera; Soloist, The Magic of Opera, Opera Mississippi/ The Natchez Festival of Music; Mercédès and Carmen (cover), Carmen, Kentucky Opera; Paquette, Candide, Des Moines Metro Opera. bridgetcappel.com