Artist Profiles ROBIN GUARINO
Stage Director (New York) Ann Lee & Will Konneker Endowed Artist Madame Butterfly OTSL DEBUT
CECELIA HALL
Mezzo-soprano (North Carolina) Fred Wehrle, Jr. Memorial Artist Sesto, Titus OTSL DEBUT
Dialogue of the Carmelites, 2014
The Composer, Ariadne on Naxos, 2016
Some Light Emerges (world premiere), Houston Grand Opera; Die Fledermaus, Cincinnati Opera; Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda/ I Have No Stories to Tell You, Gotham Chamber Opera; The Marriage of Figaro, San Francisco Opera
The Marriage of Figaro, Opera Philadelphia; La finta giardiniera, The Santa Fe Opera; The Barber of Seville, Canadian Opera Company
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FUTURE
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FUTURE
War Stories, Opera Philadelphia; Dido and Aeneas, Oper Frankfurt
War Stories, Opera Philadelphia RENA HARMS
Soprano (New Mexico) Margaret B. Grigg Memorial Artist Cio-Cio-San, Madame Butterfly OTSL DEBUT PAST
Madame Butterfly, English National Opera; Simon Boccanegra, Opéra National de Bordeaux; Otello, Oldenburgisches Staatstheater; La bohème, LA Opera FUTURE
Ring Cycle, Grand Théâtre de Genève
LEVI HERNANDEZ
Baritone (Texas) Pa Joad, The Grapes of Wrath OTSL DEBUT
Staff Accompanist/Projected English Text Coordinator (Pennsylvania) Madame Butterfly, The Grapes of Wrath, The Trial, Titus OTSL DEBUT
2013 Season PAST
The Passenger, Florida Grand Opera; Orpheus in the Underworld, Virginia Opera; Il trovatore, Sarasota Opera FUTURE
Principal Coach/Accompanist, Michigan Opera Theatre Studio
THEO HOFFMAN
Baritone (California) Josef K., The Trial OTSL DEBUT
Leporello, Don Giovanni, 2011
Thierry, Dialogues of the Carmelites, 2014
Madame Butterfly, Houston Grand Opera; La Cenerentola, Lyric Opera of Chicago; The Queen of Spades, Komische Oper Berlin Florencia en el Amazonas, San Diego Opera; La bohème, Opera Colorado
Salome, LA Opera; La bohème, The Atlanta Opera; The Magic Flute, Les mamelles de Tirésias, Juilliard Opera; Grand Finalist, The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, 2016
LAURA JELLINEK
ROBERTO KALB
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FUTURE
Set Designer (Pennsylvania) Madame Butterfly OTSL DEBUT PAST
Don Giovanni, Boston Lyric Opera; Owen Wingrave, Opera Philadelphia & Curtis Opera Theatre; Orlando paladino, Manhattan School of Music Opera Theater; The Cunning Little Vixen, Juilliard Opera
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Conductor/Head of Music/ Assistant to the Music Director (Mexico) Stephen H. Lord Endowed Artist Madame Butterfly, The Grapes of Wrath, The Trial, Titus OTSL DEBUT
2015 Season PAST
La traviata, OTSL
Cover Conductor, Sibelius Symphony No. 2, Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Music Director, Life Sciences Orchestra, University of Michigan Assistant Conductor: La fanciulla del West, Michigan Opera Theatre; The Magic Flute, Juilliard Opera
CAROLYN KUAN
MATTHEW LAU
FUTURE
Conductor (Taiwan) Edward Chase Garvey Memorial Foundation Artist The Trial OTSL DEBUT PAST
The Magic Flute, The Glimmerglass Festival; Florencia en el Amazonas, Washington National Opera; Dr. Sun Yat-sen, The Santa Fe Opera CONTINUES AS
Music Director, Hartford Symphony Orchestra
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Bass (Indiana) The Inspector/Uncle Albert, The Trial OTSL DEBUT
Benoit/Alcindoro, La bohème, 2009 PAST
Emmeline, OTSL; Elmer Gantry, Florentine Opera Company, Naxos Records; Billy Budd, Seattle Opera; The Marriage of Figaro, New York City Opera; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Lyric Opera of Chicago