Cynthia Hennon Marino

Brooklyn, NY

General Manager
Director of Production

© 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

Marco Nisticò

Stage Director (2024), Italian Instructor (2018~19), Coach

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.

Giovanni Reggioli

Italian Instructor, Coach

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

Rolando Sanz

Vocal Instructor, Coach

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

Debra Vanderlinde

Vocal Instructor, Coach

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

Lucy Tucker Yates

Los Angeles, CA

Director of Language Studies

Maestro al cembalo (Anna di Resburgo), Italian Instructor

© 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

Jonathan Brandani

Calgary, Canada

Maestro al Cembalo e Direttore, Coach

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.