Hans Tashjian, bass

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Springville, NY

Title role, Maometto Secondo
Resident Principal Artist

Photo by Lyndon England

Previously at Teatro Nuovo:

  • Figaro, Il Barbiere di Siviglia

  • Il Podestà, La Gazza Ladra

Recent and upcoming:

  • Ceprano (cover), Rigoletto, The Metropolitan Opera

  • Flemish Deputy (cover), Don Carlo, The Metropolitan Opera

  • Zoroastro, Orlando, Opera Praktikos/Opera Essentia

  • Billy, The Snowy Day, Houston Grand Opera

  • Bass Pit Singer (cover), Dean’s Hamlet, The Metropolitan Opera

  • Flemish Deputy (cover), Don Carlos, The Metropolitan Opera

  • Bartolo, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis-Opera on the GO!

Website:
hanstashjian.com

Hannah Ludwig, mezzo-soprano

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Sacramento, CA

Calbo, Maometto Secondo
Resident Principal Artist

Photo by John Matthew Myers

Previously at Teatro Nuovo:

  • Rosina, Il Barbiere di Siviglia

  • Pippo, La Gazza Ladra

  • Isaura, Tancredi

Recent and upcoming:

  • Handel’s Messiah, National Symphony Orchestra

  • Third Lady, Die Zauberflöte, The Dallas Opera

  • Alisa, Lucia di Lammermoor, Philadelphia Opera

  • Elgar’s Sea Pictures, Colorado Symphony

  • Isabella, L’italiana in Algeri, Eroica Berlin

  • District Attorney, Central Park Five, Portland Opera

Website:
hannahludwig.com

Allison Gish, contralto

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West Hurley, NY

Teresa, La Sonnambula
Resident Principal Artist

Photo by Michael Kuhn

Previously at Teatro Nuovo:

  • Lucia, La Gazza Ladra

Recent and upcoming:

  • Grimgerde, Die Walküre, TUNDI Productions

  • Mrs. Noye, Noye’s Fludde, Church of the Transfiguration, NYC

  • Lucretia, The Rape of Lucretia, New Camerata Opera

  • Mother, The Consul, Bronx Opera

  • Apollo, Handel’s Terpsichore, American Bach Soloists Academy

  • Handel’s Messiah, Bourbon Baroque

  • Bach’s Mass in b minor, American Bach Soloists Academy

Website:
allisongish.com

Simone McIntosh, mezzo-soprano

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Vancouver, BC

Anna, Maometto Secondo
Resident Principal Artist

Photo by Seraphlia Photography

Teatro Nuovo debut

Recent and upcoming:

  • Siegrune, Die Walküre, Opernhaus Zürich

  • Flora, La Traviata, Opernhaus Zürich

  • Arsame, Serse, Opernhaus Zürich

  • Angelina, La Cenerentola, Vancouver Opera

  • La Ciesca, Gianni Schicchi, Festival Napa Valley

  • Paquette, Candide, Cincinnati May Festival

  • Second Woodsprite, Rusalka, San Francisco Opera

Website:
simonemcintosh.com

Enrique Guzmán, tenor

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Mexico City, Mexico

Elvino, La Sonnambula
Resident Principal Artist

Photo by Carlos Baeza

Teatro Nuovo debut

Recent and upcoming:

  • Ramiro, La Cenerentola, Lunenberg Academy of Musical Performance

  • Orff’s Carmina Burana, Camerata de Coahuila

  • Narves, Montezuma, Ópera de Bellas Artes

  • Franz/Alfred/Cochenille, Les Contes des Hoffmann, Ópera des Bellas Artes

  • Pedrillo, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Teatro Bicentenario

  • Alfred, Die Fledermaus, Ópera des Bellas Artes

Nicholas Simpson, tenor

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Raymore, MO

Paolo Erisso, Maometto Secondo
Resident Principal Artist

Photo by JJ Ignotz

Previously at Teatro Nuovo:

  • Conte Almaviva, Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Recent and upcoming:

  • Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music, Mozart’s Regina Coeili and Missa Brevis, New England Symphonic Ensemble

  • Kronprinz, Silent Night, Fort Worth Opera

  • Don José, Carmen, Maryland Symphony

  • Title role, Tannhäuser, Apotheosis Opera

  • Recital, Riga Jurmala Music Festival

  • Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Performance Santa Fe

  • Paul, Die tote Stadt, Cleveland Opera

Website:
nicholassimpsontenor.com

Dorian McCall, baritone

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Chicago, IL

Count Rodolfo, La Sonnambula
Resident Principal Artist

Photo by Jeremy Bell Photography

Previously at Teatro Nuovo:

  • Montolino, La Straniera

Recent and upcoming:

  • Zuniga, Carmen, MIOpera

  • Famigliaro III, Littore, and Tribuni, L’Incoronazione di Poppea, Haymarket Opera

  • Teaching Resident Artist, Lift Every Voice, Cedar Rapids Opera

  • Pirate King, The Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert and Sullivan Company of Chicago

  • Zurga, Les Pêcheurs de Perles, /kor/ Productions

  • Polyphemus (cover), Acis and Galatea, Haymarket Opera

  • Scarpia, Tosca, Ouroboros Opera

Website:
dorianmccall.com

Meagan Sill, soprano

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Sterling, VA

Lisa, La Sonnambula
Resident Principal Artist

Photo by Stephen Dillon

Previously at Teatro Nuovo:

  • Rossini’s Stabat Mater

  • Ninetta (cover), La Gazza Ladra, Teatro Nuovo

Recent and upcoming:

  • Lusilla, La Scala di Seta, Rossini in Wildbad

  • Mathilda, excerpts of Guillaume Tell, Title role, excepts of Semiramide, Isabelle, excerpts of Robert le Diable in concert, Rossini in Wildbad

  • Cunegonde, excerpts of Candide in concert, Washington National Opera-Cafritz Young Artists

  • Martin’s Le Vin Herbé, Wolf Trap Opera

Website:
meagansill.com

Teresa Castillo, soprano

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Aurora, CO

Amina, La Sonnambula
Resident Principal Artist

Photo by Richard Blinkoff

Previously at Teatro Nuovo:

  • Creusa, Medea in Corinto

Recent and upcoming:

  • Queen of the Night (cover), Die Zauberflöte, Lyric Opera of Chicago

  • Frasquita, Carmen, Opera San José

  • Maria, West Side Story, Opera San José

  • Lucette, Silvain, Opera Lafayette

  • Miss Wordsworth, Albert Herring, Chicago Opera Theater

  • Sarah Turing, The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turing, Chicago Opera Theater

Website:
teresacastillosoprano.com

Toby Bradford, tenor

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Pasadena, CA

Notary, La Sonnambula
Condulmiero cover, Maometto Secondo
Studio Artist

Photo by Andre Peele

Teatro Nuovo debut

Recent and upcoming:

  • Carlo, Linda di Chamonix, Fletcher Opera Institute

  • Mosca, Musto’s Volpone, Fletcher Opera Institute

  • Pasquale, Orlando Paladino, Fletcher Opera Institute

  • Basilio, Le Nozze di Figaro, Opera UCLA

  • Title role, Orfeo nell’Inferni, Opera UCLA

Spencer Lawrence Boyd, tenor

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Canal Fulton, OH

Selimo, La Sonnambula
Paolo Erisso cover, La Sonnambula
Resident Artist

Photo by Brandon James Schmidt

Teatro Nuovo debut

Recent and upcoming:

  • Don José, Carmen - student matinee, Opera Colorado

  • Lloyd and Bill Watson, The Shining, Opera Colorado

  • Nemorino, L’Elisir d’Amore, Indiana University Opera Theater

  • Spoletto, Tosca, Opera Colorado

  • Tamino, Die Zauberflöte, LAH SOW

  • Don José, Carmen, Ardent Opera

  • First Knight of the Grail, Parsifal, Indiana University Opera Theater

Website
spencerlawrenceboyd.com

Fanyong Du, tenor

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Nei Mongol, China

Condulmiero, Maometto Secondo
Elvino cover, La Sonnambula
Resident Artist

Teatro Nuovo debut

Recent and upcoming:

  • Mozart, Mozart and Salieri, Russian Chamber Art Society of Washington, D.C.

  • Young Gypsy, Aleko, Russian Chamber Art Society of Washington, D.C.

Evan J. Nelson, baritone

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Albany, GA

Alessio, La Sonnambula
Count Rodolfo cover, La Sonnambula
Resident Artist

Photo by Kenney Ellison

Previously at Teatro Nuovo:

  • Fiorello cover, Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Recent and upcoming:

  • Le Philosophe, Chérubin, University of Missouri-Kansas City Opera

  • Guglielmo, Così fan tutte, University of Missouri-Kansas City Opera

  • Bonds’ Credo, University of Missouri-Kansas City Choir and Orchestra

  • Prince Yamadori, Madama Butterfly, Tri-Cities Opera

Website
evanjnelsonbaritone.com

Claire Coven, mezzo-soprano

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New York, NY

Studio Artist

Photo by Ellen Steinberg Coven

Teatro Nuovo debut

Recent and upcoming:

  • Idamante, Idomeneo, Mannes Opera SCENEWORK Program

  • Excerpts of Annio, La Clemenza di Tito and Dorabella, Così fan Tutte, Exploring Opera’s “An Afternoon of Mozart,” Mannes School of Music 

  • Chorus, The Fairy Queen, Mannes Sounds Festival and Mannes Opera

  • Chorus, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, Mannes Opera

  • Soloist, May Composers Concert, Mannes School of Music 

  • Excerpts of Third Lady, Die Zauberflöte; Prince Orlofsky, Die Fledermaus; and Hänsel, Hänsel und Gretel, Opera Workshop, LaGuardia Arts High School 

  • Mozart’s Missa Solemnis K. 337, LaGuardia Arts High School

Liz Culpepper, mezzo-soprano

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Austin, TX

Teresa cover, La Sonnambula
Calbo cover, Maometto Secondo
Studio Artist

Photo by Jeremy Fisher

Teatro Nuovo debut

Recent and upcoming:

  • Title role, Xerxes, Indiana University Opera Theatre

  • First Secretary, Nixon in China, Princeton Festival

  • Old Prioress, Dialogues des Carmélites, Indiana University Opera Theatre

  • La Zia Principessa, Suor Angelica, Indiana University Opera Theatre

Website
lizculpeppermezzo.com

Samuel Rosner, tenor

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Scarsdale, NY

Elvino cover, La Sonnambula
Studio Artist

Photo by Jacob Warren

Teatro Nuovo debut

Recent and upcoming:

  • Tonio (cover), La Fille du Régiment, Saint Petersburg Opera

  • Winter Apprentice Artist, Sarasota Opera

  • Chevalier de la Force and  L'Aumonier, Dialogues des Carmélites, New England Conservatory

  • Don Curzio,  Le Nozze di Figaro, Opera Neo

  • Tamino, Die Zauberflöte, Harvard College Opera

Adrienne Lotto, soprano

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New York, NY

Amina cover, La Sonnambula
Studio Artist

Photo by Sean Salamon

Teatro Nuovo debut

Recent and upcoming:

  • Handel's Messiah, New Haven Symphony Orchestra

  • Mozart's Requiem, Yale Schola Cantorum

Victoria A. Davis, soprano

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Washington, DC

Anna cover, Maometto Secondo
Resident Artist

Photo by Steven Cargill

Teatro Nuovo debut

James Danner, tenor

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New York, NY

Paolo Erisso cover, Maometto Secondo
Selimo cover, Maometto Secondo
Studio Artist

Photo by Andrea Hachuel

Teatro Nuovo debut

Recent and upcoming:

  • Pelléas, Pelléas et Melisande, dell'Arte Opera

  • Georges (cover), La Dame Blanche, New Amsterdam Opera

  • Titania and Autumn, The Fairy Queen, Mannes Sounds Festival

Emily Hughes, mezzo soprano

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New York, NY

Teresa cover, La Sonnambula
Studio Artist

Photo by Kelsey Jorrison

Previously at Teatro Nuovo:

  • Studio Artist

Recent and upcoming:

  • Zerlina, Don Giovanni, Long Island Lyric Opera

  • Annio, La Clemenza di Tito, Bronx Opera

  • Rosina, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Panopera

  • Tisbe, La Cenerentola, Geneva Light Opera

  • Musette, Leoncavallo’s La Bohème, Teatro Grattacielo

  • Patsy, The Only Girl, Victor Herbert Renaissance Project

  • Ada Lovelace, The Infinite Energy of Ada Lovelace, New Camerata Opera

Website
emily-hughes.com