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

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