Previously with Teatro Nuovo:
2019~2020
Highlights:
Music Staff, Metropolitan Opera, since 2018
Music Staff and faculty coach, Juilliard School, since 2011
Music Staff, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 2016-17
Collaborations with Dallas Opera, Virginia Opera, American Repertory Theater, BAM, Richard Tucker Foundation, Steans Institute of the Ravinia Festival
Westchester, NY
Previously with Teatro Nuovo:
2018~19
Recent and upcoming:
Assistant Stage Manager, The October Storm, Hudson Stage Company
Production Stage Manager, Dialogues des Carmélites, SUNY Purchase College Opera
Stage Manager, Confession / Suor Angelica / Gianni Schicchi, SUNY Purchase College Opera
Previously with Teatro Nuovo:
2018~2019
Recent and upcoming:
Music Director, Baltimore Concert Opera, at which she has previously led Don Giovanni and Werther
Conductor, Petite Messe Solennelle (Rossini), Assistant Conductor, Head Vocal Coach, Bel Canto at Caramoor
Guest Vocal Coach, Palm Beach Opera Benenson Young and Apprentice Artist Program, ongoing since 2012
Conductor, Zémire et Azor, Le Nozze di Figaro, Westminster Choir College – Westminster Opera Theater Too
Website:
rachellejonck.com
Previously with Teatro Nuovo:
2019
Highlights:
Instructor, University of Portland, ongoing since 2018
Leading bass-baritone roles, The Metropolitan Opera, Portland Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Los Angeles Opera, Bel Canto at Caramoor, Minnesota Opera, Washington Concert Opera, New York City Opera
Concert performances with Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, Nashville Symphony
Instructor, San Francisco Conservator of Music, 2012-13
Title role, Vivaldi: Bajazet, Portland Opera and Portland Baroque Orchestra, March 2020
Website:
danielmobbs.com
Toronto, Canada
© Janet Loo
Previously with Teatro Nuovo:
2018~2024
Bio:
Born in Hong Kong, Timothy Cheung is a pianist and vocal coach based in Toronto. A graduate of multiple prestigious young artist programs that include the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio, Merola Opera Program, and Music Academy of the West, he has gone on to work extensively in Canada and the United States. At Palm Beach Opera, he served as the Principal Coach and the Head Coach of the Benenson Young Artist Program. At Teatro Nuovo, formerly Bel Canto at Caramoor, he works in a hybrid role of music staff and administrator. He has been the music director for many outreach programs at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. He has also joined Houston Grand Opera as a member of its music staff. Mr. Cheung holds a Master of Music in collaborative piano and a Bachelor of Music in piano performance from the University of Western Ontario.
New York, NY
Previously with Teatro Nuovo:
2018~2024
Bio:
Derrick Goff is an alumnus of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and has returned to the company’s music staff in recent seasons. He has enjoyed many years of collaboration at Teatro Nuovo, a continuation of the young artist program of Bel Canto at Caramoor, where he is resident as a coach, chorus master, and Italian teacher. In addition to his work as a pianist, coach, and conductor, Derrick holds degrees in organ and voice from Westminster Choir College and is on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music.
Previously with Teatro Nuovo:
2018
Highlights:
Distinguished Professor of Voice, University of California - Los Angeles
Guest Teaching Artist, Manhattan School of Music, Rice University, University of Chicago, New Zealand Opera Center, Conservatorio Cherubini Firenze, Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts
Acclaimed soprano soloist with over 150 opera companies and symphony orchestras worldwide, including Metropolitan Opera, Netherlands Opera, Edinburgh Festival, San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic.
Recordings on Harmonia Mundi, Deutsche Grammophon, Naxos, Teldec, Channel Classics, Parma labels
Website:
julianagondek.com
Previously with Teatro Nuovo:
2018~2019, 2024
Bio:
Possessed of a keen musical intelligence and a vocal range from high-lyric mezzo to soprano, Marguerite Krull has garnered praise for a variety of roles ranging from the early Baroque through Contemporary eras. She has sung principle roles with opera companies and orchestras around the world, including Lyric Opera of Chicago, New York City Opera, Teatro Colón (Argentina), Glimmerglass Opera, Washington National Opera, National Symphony Orchestra, American Classical Orchestra, La Monnaie (Brussels, Belgium), Caramoor International Music Festival, Sarasota Symphony, Orlando Opera, Baltimore Lyric Opera, Opéra de Québec, Opéra de Bordeaux, Teatro de la Zarzuela de Madrid, Oper Leipzig, Opéra Lausanne (Switzerland), Opera de Bogotá (Colombia), Handel and Haydn Society (Boston), Bach Choir of Bethlehem, American Bach Soloists, San Francisco Bach Choir and Tempesta di Mare (Philadelphia). Marguerite holds a Bachelor of Music Degree in Piano Performance from Peabody Conservatory of Music at Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Music Degree in Vocal Performance from State University of New York at Stony Brook. She currently lives in Stuart, Florida with her husband, Mark and their two children, and is active as a teacher and a performer.
Website:
margueritekrull.com
Previously with Teatro Nuovo:
2018
Highlights:
Acclaimed mezzo-soprano whose career has spanned nearly every major opera company in the world including the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and countless others since her debut with Opéra de Nice in 1986
Two-time Grammy Award winner with over 100 recordings on labels that include Teldec, RCA, Harmonia Mundi, Deutsche Grammophon, Opera Rara, Chandos, Naive labels
Winner of the Richard Tucker Award and Chevalier des arts et des lettres from the French government
Masterclass presenter at companies and institutions worldwide
Website:
jenniferlarmore.net
Brooklyn, NY
© Katy Beth Barber
Cynthia Hennon Marino has been with Teatro Nuovo from its inception in 2017, first as the Stage Manager, then Director of Production, and now with the added title of General Manager. She was the Stage Manager for the last 3 seasons of Bel Canto at Caramoor where she first met Will Crutchfield. She has spent the last 15 years working in opera, splitting her time between new works and found spaces and traditional bel canto operas. She has worked as a stage manager at companies such as Portland Opera, Boston Lyric Opera (where she did the world premiere of Burke and Hare) Opera Omaha, San Diego Opera, Piedmont Opera, Opera Naples and Long Beach Opera (where she was part of the resident stage management team from 2010-2016). She was the Director of Production at Tri-Cities Opera from 2015-2017 and Production Supervisor at Opera Philadelphia for their Festival Os from 2017-2019 (including the world premiere of Denis and Katya).
Cindy is currently the Director of Production for Death of Classical and Production Manager for events at Green-Wood Cemetery. Cindy holds a BA in Theatre with a minor in Behavioral Psychology from University of the Pacific in California as well as a MFA in Theatre Design and Technology with an emphasis in Stage Management from The College Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati. She sat on the board of the Stage Managers Associate for 2 years as the recording secretary and is a member of the American Guild of Musical Artists.
Website:
cynthiahennonmarinosm.com
Email:
cmarino@teatronuovo.org
Previously with Teatro Nuovo:
2018~2019
Bio:
With a distinguished career spanning 25 years as a professional opera singer, Marco Nisticò has more recently transitioned into the role of a stage director, collaborating with various professional opera companies. In addition, he serves as a guest lecturer at several prestigious music conservatories. Currently, Marco holds the position of Artistic Administrator with the Sarasota Opera.
Previously with Teatro Nuovo:
2018~2019
Highlights:
Conductor, Opera Australia, Washington National Opera, Opera de Colombia, Minnesota Opera, National Arts Center Orchestra (Canada), Opera Maine, Opéra de Québec
General Director, Bel Canto in Tuscany
Guest Teaching Artist, Academia del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Guest Conductor and Coach, Lisa Gasteen National Opera School
Previously with Teatro Nuovo:
2018~2019
Highlights:
Opera performances with the Metropolitan Opera, Spoleto Festival U.S.A, Michigan Opera Theater, Virginia Opera, Florentine Opera
Concert performances with Asheville Symphony Orchestra, Apollo Orchestra, Washington National Cathedral, Spoleto Festival U.S.A
Founder and Producing Artist Director, Young Artists of America at Strathmore
Sang National Anthem for the Baltimore Orioles in four seasons
Website:
rolandosanz.com
Previously with Teatro Nuovo:
2018~2019
Highlights:
Faculty, Marymount Manhattan College, Mannes School of Music Preparatory Division
Opera performances with New York City Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Bel Canto at Caramoor, Chattanooga Opera
Concert performances with Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Adjudicator, Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, National Association of Teachers of Singing, International Opera Singers’ Competition
Website:
debravanderlinde.com
Los Angeles, CA
© Shawn Hardison / Hardiroc Photography
Previously with Teatro Nuovo:
2018~2024
Bio:
Lucy Yates recently conducted Alyssa Weinberg's ISOLA for Long Beach Opera. Next she music directs Pauline Viardot's Le Dernier Sorcier (The Last Sorcerer) at the Bard Music Festival. In 2022 she made her Lincoln Center debut as maestro al cembalo for Rossini’s Maometto Secondo with Teatro Nuovo. In 2020 she joined LA's The Industry on keyboards for Sweet Land (Du Yun/Raven Chacon) and was made a company member, continuing with Star Choir (2023) and the workshop of The Comet/Poppea (2024). In 2018 she made her conducting debut as maestro al cembalo at Seattle Opera with the "extremely inventive" O+E (Gluck/Calzabigi 1762 Orfeo ed Euridice), in an "elegantly poetic" English version she created for that production. In 2014 she made her Rossini Opera Festival debut as onstage continuo fortepianist and assistant conductor to Will Crutchfield in Mario Martone's staging of Aureliano in Palmira.
Miss Yates first drew international attention as Violetta in a 2002 Franco Zeffirelli production of La Traviata (Teatro Verdi di Busseto) and as Monica in The Medium at Spoleto under Gian Carlo Menotti's direction. Critics called her Gilda “perfect” (Piedmont), her Beatrice di Tenda “dazzling” (Fletcher), and her Fiordiligi “deliciously feminine” (Aldeburgh). She appeared as Nedda in Pagliacci at Sarasota Opera and as Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with the Opera Company of North Carolina.
Through twenty years with Bel Canto at Caramoor and Teatro Nuovo, Miss Yates has emerged as a cogent and lyrical translator and teacher of Italian grammar and poetry. She has served as dramaturg, titlist, and coach for the New York City Opera. She taught and coached for over a decade for dell’Arte Opera Ensemble under Christopher Fecteau. She has given master class series on the history of the Italian poetic tradition for Portland Opera and on the mechanics of Italian verse for Fort Worth Opera. She has created surtitles, often in verse, for operas from Le Nozze di Figaro to L'Amore dei Tre Re. She has also served as panelist on the beloved Toll Brothers Metropolitan Opera Radio Quiz, and writer and interviewer for the Santa Fe Opera. She is a Lecturer in Opera in the Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA, and she is Italian Diction Coach for the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera.
Website:
lucyyates.com
Email:
lyates@teatronuovo.org
Calgary, Canada
Photo by Jenna Mahr
Previously with Teatro Nuovo:
2018, 2019, 2023
Bio:
Jonathan Brandani is the current Artistic Director of Calgary Opera. Elsewhere, his recent engagements include include opera productions and concert appearances at the Bregenzer Festspiele in Austria (Wiener Symphoniker / Symphonieorchester Voralberg), the Danish Royal Opera House (with soprano Angela Gheorghiu), Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Théatre Royal de Wallonie-Liège, Orchestra Filarmonica Toscanini in Parma, Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Gotheborg Opera, and Meininger Hofkapelle. He has led acclaimed performances at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, Palau de les Arts di Valencia, Wexford Festival Opera, and the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo. From 2014 to 2019, he was Associate Conductor of Minnesota Opera, and from 2017 to 2020, he was Principal Guest Conductor of the Daegu Opera House in South Korea. In coming seasons, he will lead performances at the Opera Theater of Saing Louis, Atlanta Opera, Symphonieorchester Vorarlberg, and Calgary Opera. After completing his undergraduate degree in piano, Jonathan graduated the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna with a degree in conducting and at earned his Master of Arts in orchestra conducting from Yale University.
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