Peter Mark

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Panelist

As a child Peter Mark sang in the Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus, appearing as the Shepherd Boy in Tosca in 1955. He later studied violin and viola with Joseph Fuchs and Walter Trampler at Juilliard, and upon graduation won the post of Principal Viola at the Chicago Lyric Opera. His viola career included a period as Assistant Principal of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and multiple performances in the chamber music and Viola Concerto of his wife, Thea Musgrave, many of whose acclaimed operas he has also conducted. From 1975 to 2010 he was the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Virginia Opera Association, and he has guest-conducted opera worldwide, as well as holding teaching posts at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester).  

Conrad L. Osborne

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Panelist

Conrad L. Osborne’s wide-ranging career includes a decade of activity as an operatic baritone, both preceded and followed by extensive acting work in, among others, the 1981 Broadway revival of The Little Foxes with Elizabeth Taylor, eleven productions at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, numerous regional theater credits, and a recurring role on daytime television’s One Life to Live. In the meantime he became the go-to writer for classical record buyers as the lead opera/vocal critic of High Fidelity magazine from 1959 to 1983, with contributions to many other publications as well. For the last fifty years (“and counting”) he has also maintained an active private studio of voice students. He is the author of Opera as Opera: The State of the Art (2018) and of a blog, Osborne on Opera, that is regarded as a must-read by opinion leaders in the field.

Bob Ziering

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Panelist

Photo by Alan Lawson

Bob Ziering, an artist noted especially for his work in pastels, includes among his career highlights the exhibitions of his series Twilight of the Gorilla at the Central Park Zoo in 1994 (and, most recently, at the the Butler Institute Of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio in 2017), as well as Rembrandt: 40 Years of a Face, Rembrandt and The Jews of Jodenbreestraa, and Nok, Nok, interpreting 2000-year-old Nigerian terracotta sculptures in a series of drawings exhibited at the Tambaran Gallery and the Amyas Naegele Gallery in New York. More recently he has been exhibiting with the Pastel Society of America from whom has received a number of awards. As a commercial illustrator he has produced for a client list including the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Opera, the Paul Taylor Dance Group and Cirque du Soleil alongside several Fortune 500 companies. He is a lifelong avocational singer, having studied with the soprano Tina Paggi, and has built one of the world’s most impressive collections of early acoustical vocal recordings.

Teresa Castillo

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Soprano

Photo by Bill Wadman

Previously with Teatro Nuovo:

  • Annetta, Crispino e la Comare

  • Amina, La Sonnambula (COVID cancellation)

  • Creusa, Medea in Corinto

Recent and upcoming:

  • Clorinda, La Cenerentola, Lyric Opera of Chicago

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

  • Comtesse Adèle, Le Comte Ory, Opera Southwest

  • Miss Wordsworth, Albert Herring, Chicago Opera Theater

  • Maria, West Side Story, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari

  • Comtesse Adèle (cover), Le Comte Ory, Lyric Opera of Chicago

Website:
teresacastillosoprano.com

Liz Culpepper

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Mezzo-soprano

Photo by Jeremy Fisher

Previously with Teatro Nuovo:

  • La Comare, Crispino e la Comare

  • Calbo (cover), Maometto Secondo 

  • Teresa (cover), La Sonnambula (COVID cancellation)

Recent and upcoming:

  • Nika, Charlie Parker's Yardbird, Indianapolis Opera

  • Petra, A Little Night Music, Indianapolis Opera

  • Mércèdes, Carmen, Indianapolis Opera

  • 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

Hannah Ludwig

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Mezzo-soprano

Photo by John Matthew Myers

Previously at Teatro Nuovo:

  • Calbo, Maometto Secondo

  • Rosina, Il Barbiere di Siviglia

  • Pippo, La Gazza Ladra

  • Isaura, Tancredi

Recent and upcoming:

  • Handel’s Messiah, New York Philharmonic

  • Rosina, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Opera Louisiana

  • Olga, Eugene Onegin, Baltimore Concert Opera

  • Elgar’s Sea Pictures, Colorado Symphony

  • Isabella, L'Italiana in Algeri, Eroica Berlin

  • Handel’s Messiah, National Symphony Orchestra

  • Flosshilde, Das Rheingold, The Dallas Opera

  • Maddalena, Rigoletto, Utah Opera

Christine Lyons

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Soprano

Photo by Yanina May

Previously at Teatro Nuovo:

  • Alaide in La Straniera

  • Amenaide, Tancredi Rifatto

Recent and upcoming:

  • Leonora (cover), Il Trovatore, San Francisco Opera

  • Norina, Don Pasquale, Union Avenue Opera

  • Title Role, Agrippina, Florida Grand Opera

  • Title role, Norma, Winter Opera Saint Louis

  • Micaëla, Carmen, Opera Ithaca

  • Echo, Ariadne auf Naxos, Berkshire Opera Festival

Website:
christinelyons.com

Alina Tamborini

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Soprano

Photo by Nick Zoulek

Previously at Teatro Nuovo:

  • Amina (cover), La Sonnambula

  • Berta, Il Barbiere di Siviglia

  • Isoletta, La Straniera

Recent and upcoming:

  • Blanche de la Force, Dialogues des Carmélites, Bronx Opera

  • Servilia, La Clemenza di Tito, Bronx Opera

  • Fenn’s When Apathy is Betrayal (world premiere), Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players

  • Aminta, Il Re Pastore, Stony Brook Opera Theatre

  • Adele, Die Fledermaus, Stony Brook Opera Theatre

Website:
alinatamborini.com