ABIGAIL ALLWEIN, A Shepherd Boy (Soprano)
Company appearances: soloist, When I See
Your Face Again (2021); Suor Osmina,
Suor Angelica (2023).
Notable appearances: Ex-Girlfriend, ONCE (Lambs Players Theatre) *Craig Noel Award Winner; Composer/Actor, The Winter’s Tale, (The Old Globe); Music
Director/Actor, Much Ado About Nothing (The Old Globe); Swing, Sister Act (Walnut Street Theatre); Louisa Musgrove, Persuasion (Lambs Players Theatre); Marian Paroo, The Music Man, (Fine Arts Association); Turkey Rep, November (Lakeland Theatre Ensemble); Mary Jane,
Big River (True North Theatre); Dierdre, I Hate Hamlet (The Montgomery Theatre).
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MICHELLE BRADLEY, Tosca (Soprano)
Company appearances: Aida, Aida (2019);
soloist, Michelle Bradley in Concert (2021).
Notable appearances: Tosca, Tosca (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Leonora, La Forza del Destino (Frankfurt); Aida (Prague State Opera, Nancy, France, Erfurt, Germany); Verdi Requiem (Deutsche Oper Berlin, May Festival, Santa Cruz Symphony); soprano soloist, A Child of our Time (Orchestre de Paris); recital, George London Foundation (Miami, New York City); Liù, Turandot, Clotilde, Norma, Idomeneo, High Priestess, Aida (Metropolitan Opera); Donna Anna, Don Giovanni (Santiago de Chile); soloist, Four Last Songs, soloist, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. (Santa Cruz Symphony); soloist, a program of Chausson and Caplet chamber works (New World Symphony);
solo recitals (Palm Beach, Santiago de Chile, Théâtre
du Châtelet, New York’s Park Avenue Armory).
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ANDREW CRAIG BROWN, Angelotti/ Jailer (Bass-Baritone)
Company appearances: Marco, Gianni Schicchi (2023). Notable appearances: Figaro, The Barber of Seville, the father, Hansel and Gretel (Amarillo Opera); Scarpia, Tosca (Permian Basin Opera); Angelotti, Tosca (LA Phil); The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Salome (Opera San Antonio); Missa Solemnis (Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra); Dr. Grenville, La traviata, Madama Butterfly (San Francisco Opera); Achilla, Julius Caesar, Colline, La bohéme (English National Opera); Chick, Wonderful Town (Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi); Il Duca Ramiro, Maria Padilla (Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival of Warsaw, Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra); Leporello, Don Giovanni, L’Empreur, Le Rossignol, Dr. Bartolo, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Alfono, Cosí fan tutte (Yale School of Music).
VALERIO GALLI, Conductor
Company appearances: Turandot (2018).
Notable appearances: A Masked Ball,
Il trovatore, Norma, Rigoletto, (Bologna);
Il Campanello/Gianni Schicchi (Genoa); Carmen, La traviata
(Novara), Turandot, La forza del destino (Pisa); Madama Butterfly (Lucca, Livorno, Rovigo, Piacenza and Modena); La traviata (Mantova); Tosca (Trento, Pisa, Rovigo, the Daegu Opera Festival Korea); La Rondine (Fresno Opera); Madama Butterfly (Brescia version 1904, Genoa); Turandot (Huafa Theater in Zhuahi, China); Zanetto/Cavalleria rusticana (Livorno); Adriana Lecouvreur (Skopje); Fedora (Genoa); Le Villi (Managua); Turandot, Carmen (Detroit Opera).
Recent appearances: La bohème (San Carlos Theater Naples, Parma); Pagliacci (Verona); Don Carlos (Genoa); Tosca (Catania); Tosca, La Rondine (Florence); Madama Butterfly (Toulon); Tosca (Bologna); Tosca (Detroit); Il cappello de paglia di Firenze (Naples); Tosca (Lombardy); Un Mari à la Porte/Cavalleria rusticana (Florence); The Elixir of Love (Toulon); Tosca, Rapsodia Satanica/Gianni Schicchi (Genoa); Turandot (Bologna); Aida (Saxony); Il Trittico, Pagliacci/Noi, Due Quattro (Florence); Turandot (Parma); Adriana Lecouvreur (Genoa); Cavalleria rusticana, L’Amico Fritz (Cagliari); Zanetto (Verona); La fanciulla del West (Brescia, Lombardy); Pagliacci (Trieste), Madama Butterfly (Stuttgart); L’Heure Espagnole, Tosca, La bohème (Toulon); Atilla (Seoul); Tosca (Palermo, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Stuttgart); Faust (Detroit).
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GREER GRIMSLEY, Scarpia (Bass-baritone)
Company appearances:Telramund, Lohengrin (2000); Pizarro, Fidelio (2003); The High Priest of Dagon, Samson and Delilah (2007); Scarpia, Tosca (2009, 2016); Méphistophélès, Faust (2010); Jochanaan, Salome (2012); The Pirate King, The Pirates of Penzance (2017). Notable appearances: Wotan, Ring Cycle (Seattle Opera); Pizarro (Opera Company of Philadelphia, Portland Opera, Portuguese National Opera); Kurwenal, Tristan und Isolde (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Jochanaan (Santa Fe Opera, Vancouver Opera, San Francisco Opera); Scarpia (L’Opera de Montreal, Opera Colorado, Lyric Opera of Kansas City); Captain Balstrode, Peter Grimes; Amfortas, Parsifal; Escamillo, Carmen; Jochanaan; Scarpia; Telramund (The Metropolitan Opera); The Dutchman, The Flying Dutchman (Lithuania, Seattle Opera); Macbeth, Macbeth (Vancouver Opera); Amonasro, Aida (Portland Opera); Méphistophélès, Faust (New Orleans Opera); Sweeny Todd, Sweeney Todd (Vancouver Opera). greergrimsley.com
ALAN E. HICKS, Stage Director
Company appearances: When I See Your Face Again (2021); Aida (2019); All is Calm (2018); Resident Stage Director (in partnership with SDSU, since 2018). Assistant Stage Director for SDO: El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, Roméo et Juliette, Così Fan Tutte, The Barber of Seville, La bohème, Carmen, Three Decembers, and Rigoletto. Directorial work: L’Amant Anonyme, La Verbena de la Paloma, The Seven Deadly Sins (film), RE: Euridice/Orfeo, and Flight (SDSU), Ariadne auf Naxos (Minnesota Opera), The Elixir of Love (Opera Santa Barbara), The Magic Flute (Opernfest Berlin), Albert Herring, The Turn of the Screw (Miami Music Festival), La Clemenza di Tito (Music Academy International). Additional work: Palm Beach Opera, Tulsa Opera, Green Mountain Opera Festival, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Austro-American Mozart Academy in Salzburg, Shenandoah Conservatory, the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory and the University of Houston. Directing/Production staff at: Central City Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Green Mountain Opera Festival, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Michigan Opera Theatre, New York City Opera, Seattle Opera, and Tulsa Opera.
ANDREW HORN, Set Design
Notable appearances: Tosca, 2016.
Notable design: (Opera)
Baltimore, Detroit, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Philadelphia, New York, Miami, Houston, Los Angeles; (Ballet) American Repertory Ballet; (Theatre) Berkshire Theatre Fesitval,
La Jolla Playhouse.
MARCELO PUENTE, Cavaradossi (Tenor)
Company debut. Notable: Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Teatro alla Scala, Teatro Colon, Opera Australia, Teatro Real in Madrid, Staatsoper Hamburg, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Semperoper Dresden, Canadian Opera Company, State Opera of Prague; Pinkerton, Madama Butterfly (Royal Opera House, Staatsoper Hamburg, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, El Escorial Spain); Cavaradossi (Opéra national de Paris, Staatsoper Hamburg, Canadian Opera Company, Opéra de Marseille, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia Valencia); Don José, Carmen (Opera Australia, NHK Orchestra Japan, Dresden); Paolo, Francesca da Rimini (Opéra du Rhin, La Scala); Don Álvaro, La Forza del Destino (Opernhaus Zürich, Semperoper Dresden, Cologne Opera); Calaf, Turandot (Vancouver Opera); Faust, Faust (Washington National Opera); Don Carlos, Don Carlos (Teatro Real Madrid, Greek National Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, State Opera Prague); Pollione, Norma (Staatsoper Hamburg, Dresden Semperoper); Manrico, Il trovatore (Opera Toulon); Riccardo, A Masked Ball (Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires); Andrea Chenier, Andrea Chenier (Greek National Opera).
CHRIS RYNNE, Lighting Designer
Company appearances: La traviata (2004); La bohème (2005); Aida (2008); Madama Butterfly (2016); As One (2017); Carmen (2019); La bohème (2020); The Barber of Seville (2021). Assistant lighting designer (2000-2008). Notable designs: Madison Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Houston Grand Opera (Opera); The Pianist of Willesden Lane (Off-Broadway); The Old Globe, San Diego Rep, Berkeley Rep, Pasadena Playhouse, South Coast Rep, Laguna Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, Cygnet Theatre, North Coast Rep, Diversionary Playhouse, Starlight Theatre, San Diego Musical Theatre (Regional).
DEANDRE SIMMONS, Sciarrone (Bass-Baritone)
Company debut. Notable appearances: Philadelphia Orchestra, Opera Philadelphia, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Hollywood Bowl, Columbia Pro Cantare, Opera Panama, Pacific Opera Victoria, Castleton Festival under Maestro Lorin Maazel, Santa Barbara Symphony, Curtis Opera Theatre, London Philharmonic, Kansas City Symphony, RAI orchestra, Lamb’s Players Theatre, The Lyceum Theatre, The Old Globe, Starlight Musical Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Sledgehammer Theatre, The Pantages and off-Broadway (NYC); soloist, Die Winterreise (Ontario, Berlin and Bonn, Germany), Oroveso, Norma (Verismo Opera Theatre); Amonasro, Aida (Austria); soloist, Händel’s Messiah (Santa Barbara Choral Society and Orchestra, Grand Junction Symphony and Chorus in Colorado); Ferrando, Il trovatore (Astoria Music Festival); soloist, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (Santa Barbara Symphony); soloist, Haydn’s The Creation (Bar Choral Society in London); soloist, Mozart’s Requiem (Queens College Choral Society).
MICHAEL SOKOL, A Sacristan (Baritone)
Company appearances: Sergeant of Police, The Pirates of Penzance (2017); Ensemble, All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 (2018); soloist, When I See Your Face Again (2021); Maestro Spinelloccio, Gianni Schicchi (2023). Notable appearances: Metropolitan Opera; Philadelphia Orchestra; Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago; Frank Lloyd Wright, Shining Brow (Madison Opera); director, San Diego Summer Gilbert and Sullivan Workshop.
JOEL SORENSEN Spoletta (Tenor)
Company appearances: Curley, Of Mice
and Men (1999); Camp Williams, Cold Sassy
Tree (2001); Andres, Wozzeck (2007); Rodriguez, Don Quixote (2009, 2014); Tybalt, Romeo and
Juliet (2010); Pang, Turandot, Valzacchi, Der Rosenkavalier (2011); First Tempter/First Knight, Murder in the Cathedral, Beppe, Pagliacci (2013); Spoletta, Tosca (2016); Dr. Caius, Falstaff (2017); Pong, Turandot (2018); Witch, Hansel
and Gretel (2020).
Notable appearances: Spoletta, Tosca, Andres, The Tales of Hoffmann (Metropolitan Opera);
Don Curzio, The Marriage of Figaro, Dr. Caius, Spoletta (Los Angeles Opera); Vitek, The Makropoulos Case, Incredible, Andrea Chenier, The Doctor, The Fall of the House of Usher, Balthasar Zorn, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Spoletta, Elder Hayes, Susanna (San Francisco Opera); King Herod, Salome (Florentine Opera); Pedrillo, Entführung aus dem Serail (Atlanta Opera); Mime, Siegfried (Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh, Longborough Festival).
BRUCE STASYNA, Chorus Master
Company appearances (conductor): Così fan tutte (2022); The Barber of Seville (2021); One Amazing Night: When I See Your Face Again (2021); All is Calm Holiday Concert (2020): One Amazing Night with Stephen Costello and Stephen Powell (2019); Maria de Buenos Aires (2018); As One (2017). Notable work: Conductor in Residence & Chorus Master, San Diego Opera; Chorus Master, New York City Opera, Minnesota Opera, Washington Concert Opera, Wolf Trap Opera and Des Moines Opera; conductor, New York City Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Amalfi Coast Music Festival; Artistic Director, Principal Conductor, Green Mountain Opera Festival; Head of Music, Director of the Young Artist Program, Palm Beach Opera; Music Director, Vero Beach Opera; Premieres: Anna Nicole, The Handmaid’s Tale, Orazi e Curiazi, Joseph Merrick dit Elephant Man, El ùltimo sueño de Frida y Diego.