In September 2018, Yannick Nézet-Séguin became the third music director of the Metropolitan Opera, New York. Music director of The Philadelphia Orchestra since 2012, he became artistic and music director in February 2023 and renewed his contract until 2030. As music director and principal donductor of the Orchestre Métropolitain of Montreal since 2000, he signed a contract "for life" in 2019. He is honorary conductor of the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest after being their music director from 2008 to 2018. He is also an honorary member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

Yannick has worked with many leading European ensembles and enjoys close collaborations with Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, Bayerischer Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester, and Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

Between 2008 and 2014, he was also principal guest conductor of London Philharmonic Orchestra. He has appeared many times at the BBC Proms and at many European festivals, among them Edinburgh, Lucerne, Salzburg, and Grafenegg (Vienna). North American summer appearances include New York's Mostly Mozart Festival, Lanaudiere, Vail, and Saratoga along with Domaine Forget Festival in Charlevoix.

With The Philadelphia Orchestra, he goes regularly to Carnegie Hall where he has been Perspectives Artist in 2019-2020. He also conducts master classes, notably at two of the most renowned institutions, the Curtis Institute of Philadelphia and the Julliard School of New York. In Quebec, he directs an academy of young conductors linked to the Orchestre Métropolitain, in close collaboration with the Domaine Forget Summer Festival.

A long-term collaboration with the Baden Baden Summer Festival, La Capitale d'été, resulted over the years in several concerts and recordings of operas with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe , as well as the complete symphonies by Beethoven (summer 2021) and the Brahms cycle (summers 2022 and 2023).

He regularly conducts the Philadelphia and Rotterdam Orchestras as well as the Chamber Orchestra of Europe on Asian or European tours. In November 2017, he conducted the Orchester Métropolitain de Montréal on its very first European tour, which was a huge success, followed, in November 2019, by a very prestigious American tour with singer Joyce DiDonato. A second American tour is planned with the Orchestre Métropolitain which will take them to Carnegie Hall in March 2024. During Summer 2023, he conducted a very successful European Tour with the MET Orchestra who had not travelled since many years. An Asian Tour is planned.

Yannick is as comfortable at the opera as at the concert. After having cut his teeth at the Opéra de Montréal from 2000 to 2004 in L'Incoronazione di Poppea, The Barber of Seville, Cosi fan tutte, Pelléas et Mélisande, and L'Elisir d' amore, he returns sporadically for Wozzeck, Madame Butterfly, Salomé, and Elektra. He made his debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2008 with a new production of Romeo and Juliet by Gounod and returned there in 2010 and 2011 for Don Giovanni by Mozart. It was during the 2009-2010 season that he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera (MET) in a new production of Carmen by Bizet; thereafter, he returned there each season to conduct Don Carlo, Faust, La Traviata, Rusalka, Otello, Der Fliegende Hollander, Parsifal, and Elektra before becoming its musical director. In this position, he conducted La Traviata, Pelléas et Mélisande, Dialogues des Carmélites, Turandot, Wozzeck, Tosca, Fire shut up in my bones, Eurydice, and Don Carlo (in French). In addition, during the 2022-2023 season, he conducted The Hours, Lohengrin, Champion, and La bohême. During the season 2023-2024, he conducted Dead Man Walking, Florencia in el Amazonas, La Forza del Destino, and Roméo et Juliette.

He has conducted at the Teatro alla Scala (Milan), the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden, London), the Netherlands Opera (Amsterdam) and the Vienna Staatsoper (Vienna). With the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, just before the start of the pandemic, he conducted a semi-staged version of Die fraù ohne schatten by Richard Strauss. In 2011, he undertook the cycle of Mozart's last operas for the Festspielhaus Baden Baden, all recorded "live" by Deutsche Grammophon, most of them with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. To date, the following titles have appeared: Di Zauberflöte; La Clemenza di Tito; Le Nozze di Figaro; Entführung aus dem Serail; Cosi fan tutte; Don Giovanni.   

In April 2022, with the Rotterdams Philharmonisc Orkest, he conducted Rheingold by Richard Wagner in concert version during a tour in Rotterdam, Paris, Dortmund and Baden Baden which drew the highest praise to the entire production. In March 2024, he toured Walküre by Richard Wagner.

Several films or sequences have been shot on Yannick Nézet-Séguin's career, the most complete, released in 2021, entitled Yannick, an Artist's Journey by Susan Froamke, produced by the MET. In addition, Yannick has participated as a Conducting Consultant in 2022 and 2023 in the production of two films: Maestro, an American film by Bradley Cooper (who also plays the title role), also starring Carrie Mulligan, chronicling the life of Leonard Bernstein (on Netflix in November 2023); and Happy Days, a Quebec film by Chloé Robichaud starring Sophie Desmarais in the role of a young Conductor.

The maestro records exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon. September 2013 marked his first symphonic recording under this prestigious banner. For the occasion, he directed The Philadelphia Orchestra which had not recorded under a renowned label since 1997. Their record Stravinsky (The Rite of Spring)-Stokowski (transcriptions by Bach and Stravinsky) proved to be a huge success. With the Chamber of Europe Orchestra, he recorded the complete Mendelssohn Symphonies as well as the complete works of Schumann Symphonies; with the Rotterdams Philhamonisch Orkest, a souvenir box; with Daniil Trifonov and The Philadelphia Orchestra, two discs of four piano concertos by Rachmaninoff. His DG discography includes several other recordings, including Tchaikovsky with Lisa Batiashvili and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra; and Visions of Prokofiev with Lisa Batiashvili and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Following a few stage performances of Mass by Leonard Bernstein, Yannick conducted The Philadelphia Orchestra as well as all the participants in a recording which was released in March 2018. In 2021, still with The Philadelphia Orchestra, he engraved Florence Price's Symphonies 1 and 3; this disc earned him a GRAMMY Award for Best Orchestral Performance. With the same orchestra, he recorded the album Price: Symphony No. 4, Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony, nominated for a GRAMMY in 2024.

With ATMA Classique and the Orchester Métropolitain de Montréal, with whom he began recording in 2000, a special box set brings together all the Bruckner Symphonies recorded over the years. He then undertook the cycle Sibelius with the orchestra, to be released in 2024. A return to the piano during the pandemic allows his first solo piano album, Introspection, to see the light of day on Deutsche Grammophon (February 2021). Other recordings are available on various labels: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra (EMI Classics, BIS); London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO label); Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra (ATMA Classic); Berliner Philharmoniker (house label); Wiener Philharmoniker (Sony Classical).

Yannick studied piano, conducting, composition, and chamber music at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec in Montreal and choral conducting at the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, before going on to study with renowned conductors, most notably the Italian maestro Carlo Maria Giulini. By the time he made his European debut in 2004, he had already founded his own professional orchestra and vocal ensemble, La Chapelle de Montréal, going on to conduct all the major ensembles in Canada. His honors include his first GRAMMY Award for the Florence Price recording with The Philadelphia Orchestra (2022); a second GRAMMY Award for the Best Opera Recording (MET: Fire Shut Up In My Bones from Terence Blanchard; 2022); in 2023, a third GRAMMY Award for the Best Voice Recording (Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene Piano and Voice with the great Renée Fleming; Musical America’s Artist of the Year (2016), Eco Klassik’s Conductor of the year (2014), and the following Awards: Virginia-Parker (2000); Royal Philharmonic Society (2009); National Arts Centre (2010); Denise-Pelletier (2015); Medal of Honor of the Quebec National Assembly (2015); Oskar Morawetz (2017). He holds eight honorary doctorates from the Université du Québec à Montréal (2011), Curtis Institute in Philadelphia (2014), Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton (2015), McGill University in Montreal (2017), Université de Montréal (2017); University of Pennsylvania (2018); Université Laval in Québec City (2021), Drexel University in Philadelphia (2023). He was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada (2012), Companion ot the Order of Arts and Letters of Québec (2015), Officer of the Order of Québec (2015), Officer of the Order of Montreal (2017), Fellow of the Royal Conservatory of Music (2020) and Officer of Arts and Letters of the French Republic (2021).

Australian soprano Nicole Car has established herself as one of the leading sopranos of her generation performing regularly for Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opera de Paris, Opera Australia, Dallas Opera, Opéra de Lyon, and Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Often praised for her beautiful, rich timbre, and her unique musicality, Nicole’s concert repertoire includes Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Ah! Perfido, Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, Mahler’s Das klagende Lied and works by Strauss with the Melbourne, Sydney and Queensland Symphony Orchestras. Her discography includes her first solo disc The Kiss in 2016 and Heroines with the Australian Chamber Orchestra in 2018.

This season engagements include her house debut at La Scala as Ellen Orford Peter Grimes, returns to the Bayerische Staatsoper as Mimi La bohème, Wiener Staatsoper as Blanche Dialogue des Carmélites, Donna Elvira Don Giovanni, Marguerite Faust and at the Opéra de Paris as Amelia Simon Boccanegra. Recent engagements include Elisabetta Don Carlo Salomé Hérodiade at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Tatyana Eugene Onegin at the Wiener Staatsoper and Micaëla Carmen in Paris.

Nicole’s discography includes Brahms’ Deutsches Requiem for the MSO, The Kiss (ABC Classics), Heroines (ABC Classics), André Messager’s Passionnément and Massenet: Songs with Orchestra (Bru Zane).

She was the recipient of the 2013 Neue Stimmen Competition and the 2012 Australia Opera Awards and was nominated for Best Young Singer at the 2015 International Opera Awards. She won the Best Female Performer in an Opera category at the 2018 Helpmann Awards.

Nicole was made a Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et des lettres de la république de France in 2021.

Stephen Costello has been hailed as ‘a prodigiously gifted singer whose voice makes an immediate impact’ (Associated Press). The Philadelphia-born tenor quickly established a reputation as a ‘first-class talent’ (Opera News) after coming to national attention in 2007, when, aged 26, he made his Metropolitan Opera debut on the company’s season-opening night. Two years later, Stephen won the prestigious Richard Tucker Award, and he has since appeared at many of the world’s most important opera houses and music festivals, including the Royal Opera House, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Wiener Staatsoper, Opéra national de Paris, Deutsche Staatsoper, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Semperoper Dresden, Bayerische Staatsoper, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Hamburgische Staatsoper, San Francisco Opera, Washington National Opera, Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Arena di Verona, Salzburger Festspiele, Bregenzer Festspiele, and Glyndebourne Festival. As Opera News noted in a recent Spotlight double-page spread, ‘the all-American tenor’ is now ‘at the top of his game’.

In the 2023/24 season, Costello sings Don José Carmen at Bayerische Staatsoper, Rodolfo La bohème at The Metropolitan Opera, Verdi’s Requiem at Opernhaus Zürich and Rodolfo La bohème with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra.

Looking ahead Stephen is engaged to sing at The Metropolitan Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Dallas Opera, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Santa Fe Opera, Edinburgh Festival and Opernhaus Zürich.

In March 2018 Stephen opened a memorial concert at the Royal Opera House in honor of Dmitri Hvorostovsky, singing alongside, amongst others, Anna Netrebko, Elīna Garanča, and Angela Gheorghiu.

In addition to winning the 2009 Richard Tucker Award and receiving further grants from the Richard Tucker Music Foundation, Stephen won First Prize in the 2006 George London Foundation Awards Competition, First Prize and Audience Prize in the Giargiari Bel Canto Competition, and First Prize in the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Competition. Stephen is a graduate of the Academy of Vocal Arts.

With a voice described as “lusciously-colored” by Opera News and chosen as one of WQXR’s ‘20 for 20’ Artists to Watch, Nicaraguan American soprano Gabriella Reyes is one of the most exciting artists in music today. A former member of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera, Ms. Reyes returns to the Met in the 2023 - 2024 season to perform the roles of Rosalba in a new production of Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Liù in Turandot. She also makes her role debut as Nedda in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City and revisits the roles of Mimì in La bohème with the Atlanta Opera. Concert work includes a return to the role of Marzelline in Fidelio with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, both in LA, and on tour in Europe with stops including at the Liceu in Barcelona, the Philharmonie de Paris, and to the Barbican in London. 

The 2022 – 23 season saw Ms. Reyes make a number of acclaimed debuts including with the Glyndebourne Festival as Mimì in La bohème, Semperoper Dresden as Musetta in La bohème, Washington National Opera as Mimì in La bohème, and at Detroit Opera as Margarita Xirgu in Golijov’s Ainadamar. On the concert stage, Ms. Reyes performed Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with both San Francisco Symphony and Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, and Vaughan Williams’ Dona nobis pacem with the New York Choral Society.

Highlights of previous seasons include multiple appearances at the Metropolitan Opera including as Liù in Turandot, First Lady in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Nella in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Musetta in La bohème and the High Priestess in Aida. She has also appeared as Cio-Cio San in Seven Deaths of Maria Callas at Opéra national de Paris, Rosalba in Florencia en los Amazonas at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Musetta in La bohème at the Santa Fe Opera.

In concert, Ms. Reyes appears frequently with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel in roles including Marzelline in Fidelio, Bachianas Brasileiras, and excerpts from Die Zauberflöte, alongside appearances as a soloist with the New York Choral Society, and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. She also appeared with the Jacksonville Symphony as Musetta in La bohème, the Montclair Orchestra and David Chan in Behzad Ranjbaran’s Songs of Eternity, and with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in a program of Mozart.

Named a 2019 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist by the Metropolitan Opera, Ms. Reyes was also a recipient of a Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation in 2018 and was also a grand finalist in the 2017 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory.

Born in Montreal, baritone Etienne Dupuis has established himself as one of the most distinguished baritones of his generation.

Etienne made his debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Zurga Les Pêcheurs de Perles and returned as Posa Don Carlo, Figaro Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Germont La Traviata, Marcello La bohème, Silvio Pagliacci, and the title role in Eugene Onegin. He made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Marcello La bohème and has since returned at Count Almaviva Le Nozze di Figaro and Rodrigue Don Carlos. He regularly sings at houses including Opera de Paris, Opernhaus Zurich, Bayerische Staatsoper, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opera de Montreal, and Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Etienne's discography includes his solo disc Love Blows as the Wind Blows released on ATMA Classique, Honegger and Ibert L'Aiglon on Decca, Thais duet with Sonya Yoncheva on her Paris, mon amour record on Sony, Getty's Usher House with narration from actor Benedict Cumberbatch and Thérèse on Presto Classical with Alain Altinoglu and Opéra national Montpellier Orchestra and Choir.

Recent and upcoming engagements include his role debut as Rigoletto at Teatro Real Madrid, Carlo di Vargas La Forza del destino at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Zurga Les Pêcheurs de Perles at the Opernhaus Zurich, Count di Luna Il trovatore at the Opéra de Paris and in Montreal, Hérode Hérodiade in Lyon and Berlin, Eugene Onegin at the Bayerische Staatsoper and Wiener Staatsoper, Escamillo Carmen in Paris, Karl Gustav La Reine Garcon at the Opéra de Montreal, Paolo Simon Boccanegra, and Sancho Don Quichotte at the Opéra de Paris.

Étienne was made a Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et des lettres de la république de France in 2021.

Polish bass Krzysztof Bączyk, born in 1990, received his musical training first as a member of the Poznań Boys Choir. He went on to study at the Academy of Music there, where in 2010 he was honored as the best student of the year and graduated in 2014. He also attended masterclasses held by artists such as Neil Shicoff, Anita Garanča, Andrzej Dobber, Anne Murray, and David Pountney. Moreover, he attended Akademia Operowa Young Artists Program at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw and he worked with Izabela Kłosińska and Eytan Pessen.

In December 2010 he was accepted by the Opera Academy of Grand Theater in Poznań, where he was able to build up a broad repertoire, performing in productions such as Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, as Hamlet in the opera by Ambroise Thomas as well as in Aida, Eugene Onegin, Le Nozze di Figaro, Parsifal, Don Giovanni, and Der Freischütz.

His participation in the opera workshop of the Academy of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in 2012 laid the foundation for intensive cooperation with the festival in the following years.

He returned in 2013 as a participant in the Mozart workshop and was awarded the prize of the friends of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. Subsequently he sang Nettuno and Tindaro in a tour production of Francesco Cavalli’s Elena. In 2014 he gave guest performances as the First Priest and Second Armoured Man in The Magic Flute. In 2015 he was highly acclaimed for his interpretation of Melisso in Handel’s Alcina. In January 2016 he debuted at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw as Publio in La Clemenza di Tito and performed in Salzburg with Marc Minkowski in Handel’s Acis and Galatea as Poliphemo.

During the years he debuted in Cagliari as Colline in La bohème; he sang Commendatore and Masetto (Don Giovanni) in Stockholm, Capellio (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Melisso (Alcina), Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Masetto and Colline at Opernhaus Zürich, as well as Mozart’s Requiem at Opéra National de Lorraine.

He appeared as Masetto at Aix-en-Provence Festival and at Beaune Festival, and he made his debut at Opéra Bastille in Don Carlos. Additionally, he sang Die Zauberflöte and Zuniga in Carmen at Warsaw Opera, Rossini’s Stabat Mater with Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Alcina at Théâtre des Champs Elysées, The Fiery Angel at Polish National Opera and at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, as well as Don Giovanni (Masetto) in concert with NDR Philharmonie Hannover.

In the recent seasons, he debuted at ABAO Olbe Bilbao as Colline in La bohème, in the US in Rossini’s Stabat Mater with The Philadelphia Orchestra and at Arena di Verona in Aida, Carmen, and Tosca. He returned to Opéra Bastille in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Tosca and Il Barbiere di Siviglia; he sang Iolanta and a concert version of Il Pirata at Palais Garnier, and he made his house debuts at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and at Teatro Real as Masetto in Don Giovanni.

Most recently he made his house debuts at the Glyndebourne Festival in Luisa Miller, at the Royal Opera House and at Opéra de Rouen in Die Zauberflöte, at the Bolshoi Theatre in Don Giovanni. He also returned to Teatro Real in La bohème, to Opéra de Paris in Don Giovanni and to Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in Norma, and he sang Le nozze di Figaro at Wrocław Opera, as well as Mozart Requiem with Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

In season 2022/23 he sang I Capuleti e i Montecchi at Opéra de Paris and made house debuts with Gran Teatre del Liceu (Il trovatore), Metropolitan Opera (Aida, La bohème) and Salzburger Festspiele (Le nozze di Figaro). Other highlights included Norma in concert with Ensemble Resonanz, I puritani in concert at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Luisa Miller at Oper Köln, as well as Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Swedish Radio Symphony.

Season 2023/24 started with the return to the Metropolitan Opera in La bohème. Future plans include Le nozze di Figaro at Hamburg State Opera, and Don Giovanni and Luisa Miller at Teatro di San Carlo.

A graduate of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Russian baritone Alexey Lavrov made his Met company debut in the 2012-13 season as the Herald in Otello and the Flemish Deputy in Don Carlo and has since appeared there as Silvio in Pagliacci, Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Schaunard in La bohème, Ping in Turandot, Count Dominik in Arabella, the Huntsman in Rusalka, and Yamadori in Madama Butterfly. Other recent career highlights have included the title roles in Aleko and Eugene Onegin at Opera Carolina, his role debut at Belcore in L’Elisir d’Amore at the Macau International Music Festival, his debuts at the Opernhaus Zürich as Silvio in Pagliacci and Teatro Real in Madrid in a new production of The Golden Cockerel, Albert in Werther, and Silvio with CulturArte de Puerto Rico, Malatesta at the Cincinnati Opera and Atlanta Opera, Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette at the Festival Internacional de Ópera Alejandro Granda in Peru, his debuts at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre in Moscow as Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream and at the Mikhailovsky Theatre as Silvio in Pagliacci and Robert in Iolanta, the title role of Eugene Onegin at Germany's Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg Festival and on tour with the Mikhailovsky Theatre in Japan, Donald in Billy Budd at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago, a Flemish Deputy in Don Carlo at the Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse, and a recital with the Friends of Chamber Music Society of Miami with Ken Noda. Mr. Lavrov was also a member of the Young Artist Program at the Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre where he sang Moralès in Carmen, Shchelkalov in Boris Godunov, and Robert in Iolanta.

A native of the Komi Republic, Russia, Mr. Lavrov studied voice at the Republican Art College, Syktyvkar and the St. Petersburg State Conservatory. He was recently a semi-finalist at the 2014 Operalia International Voice Competition, and his many other awards and distinctions include first prize at the 2014 Gerda Lissner Foundation International Vocal Competition, second prize at the 2014 Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation International Voice Competition, third prize at the 2014 Loren L. Zachary National Vocal Competition, the 2014 Musique et Vin Festival Prize, the 2014 Hildegard Behrens Foundation Award, winner of the 2010 Hariclea Darclée International Voice Competition, second prize from the Byulbyul International Vocal Competition, fourth-prize winner of the Concurso Internacional de Canto competition in Buenos Aires's Teatro Colón, and a diploma from the International Rachmaninoff Competition. Mr. Lavrov recently made his debuts at the Arena di Verona in Turandot and at the Grand Théâtre de Genève as Napoleon in War and Peace. This season he returns to the Metropolitan Opera in La bohème and make his debut at Festival Napa Valley.

Donald Maxwell was born in Perth, Scotland and graduated in geography from Edinburgh University. He studied singing with Joseph Hislop.

Donald Maxwell has appeared with the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, Opera North, Scottish Opera, Opera Holland Park, Opera London, Chelsea Opera Group New Sadler’s Wells Opera, the Glyndebourne, Edinburgh, Wexford, Buxton, Camden and Chester Festivals, and the BBC Proms. Foreign engagements have included performances at the Metropolitan Opera New York, Teatro alla Scala Milan, the Vienna Staatsoper, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Chicago, Houston, Bregenz, Zurich, Buenos Aires, Macao, Japan, Cyprus and Athens.

His repertoire includes the title roles in Falstaff, Il Bar biere di Siviglia, Rigoletto, Der Fliegende Holländer, Don Pasquale, and Wozzeck, Prus The Makropoulos Case, Leander L’amour des Trois Oranges, The Father Hansel and Gretel, Eisenstein, Escamillo Carmen,  Geronio Il Turco in Italia, Germont and The Baron La Traviata, Don Alhambra The Gondoliers, Wurfl, Patron and Councillor The Excursions of Mr Broucek, Sharpless Madama Butterfly, Don Alfonso Così Fan Tutte, Enrico Lusia di Lammermoo, Zurga Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Ipparco L’egisto, the Poacher The Cunning Little Vixen, Shishkov From the House of the Dead, Filip The Jacobin, Sancho Panza in Massenet’s Don Quichotte, Renato Un Ballo in Maschera, Nick Shadow The Rake’s Progress, Amonasro The Drama of Aida, Alcindoro, Benoit, and Marcello La bohème, Don Carlos Ernani, Iago Otello, the Count and Antonio Le Nozze di Figaro, Isacio Riccardo Primo, Jack Rance La Fanciulla del West, Golaud Pelléas et Mélisande, Pandolphe Cendrillon, Scarpia and Sacristan Tosca, Thoas Iphigenie en Tauride, Somarone Beatrice et Benedict, Shadbolt the Yeomen of the Guard, Balstrode and Swallow Peter Grimes, Klingsor Parsifal, Riccardo I Puritani, Pizarro Fidelio, Dulcamara L’elisir d’Amore, Krusina The Bartered Bride, Tierbändiger, Rodrigo, and Athlet Lulu, Yeletsky The Queen of Spades, the English Archer in the British premiere of The King Goes Forth to France, the Herald Lohengrin, Kothner Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Alidoro La Cenerentola, Donner Das Rheingold, Gunther Götterdämmerung, Baron Zeta The Merry Widow, Dr. Bartolo Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Rambaldo La Rondine, La Rocca Un Giorno di Regno, Gamekeeper Rusalka, Imam Kismet, Bailli Wether, Hortensius La Fille du Régiment, Melitone Forza del Destino, Colonel Calverley Patience, Pooh-Bah The Mikado, Alfred Doolittle My Fair Lady, Lockit The Beggar’s Opera, 2nd Priest Die Zauberflöte, Doctor/Boilerman Heart of Darkness, General Garcia Conchez in Kurt Weill’s Kuhandel, and the world premieres including Don Perlimpin in Simon Holt’s The Nightengale’s to Blame, Dai Great Coat in Iain Bell’s In Parenthesis, and Dr Bloom in Olga Neuwirth’s new version of Lulu.

Donald Maxwell is much in demand as a concert singer both in this country and abroad. He is a regular broadcaster on both radio and television, and videos include Pelleas et Melisande and Lulu. His many recordings include Amahl and the Night Visitors, Antonio Le Nozze di Figaro, Noye’s Fludde, Carmina Burana, Bottom A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tarquinius The Rape of Lucretia, Howells’ Missa Sabrinensis, Lockit The Beggar’s Opera, Hangman in Weill’s Firebrand of Florence, Shadbolt The Yeomen of the Guard, Kismet, Bitter Sweet, The Student Prince, title role Sir John in Love, and a Scottish song recital.

Three-time GRAMMY winner for Best Choral Performance, Best Classical Recording, and Best Opera Performance, Duain Wolfe is founder and director of the Colorado Symphony Chorus. This year marks Wolfe’s 40^th season with the Colorado Symphony Chorus.

The Chorus has been featured at the Aspen Music Festival for nearly three decades. Wolfe recently retired as director of the Chicago Symphony Chorus after 28 years. He has collaborated with Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Bernard Haitink, Riccardo Muti, and Sir George Solti on numerous recordings including Wagner’s Die Meistersinger, which won the 1998 GRAMMY for Best Opera Recording. Wolfe’s extensive musical accomplishments have resulted in numerous awards, including the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from the University of Denver, the Bonfils Stanton Award in the Arts and Humanities, the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in an Artistic Discipline, and the Michael Korn Award for the Development of the Professional Choral Art.

Wolfe is Founder of the Colorado Children’s Chorale, from which he retired in 1999 after 25 years. For 20 years, Wolfe also worked with the Central City Opera Festival as chorus director and conductor, founding and directing the company’s young artist residence program, as well as its education and outreach programs. Wolfe’s other accomplishments include directing and preparing choruses for Chicago’s Ravinia Festival, the Bravo! Vail Music Festival, the Berkshire Choral Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Grand Teton Music Festival. He has worked with Pinchas Zuckerman and Alexander Shelly as chorus director for the Canadian National Arts Centre Orchestra for the past 20 years.

Colorado Children's Chorale and Emily Crile (director) return to Bravo! Vail after appearances in 2011, 2018, and 2019. Founded in Denver in 1974, the Chorale has won the Governor’s and Mayor’s awards for Excellence in the Arts. It has performed multiple times at the Aspen Music Festival, and broadcast appearances include NBC’s Today Show and BBC airing of its Promenade Music Festival performance at Royal Albert Hall. It commissioned and presented the world premiere of the Gene Scheer and David Shire musical, A Stream of Voices. The Chorale annually trains 400 members from more than 180 schools

Paula Suozzi is the Executive Stage Director of the Metropolitan Opera Association. There she has directed revivals of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Die Meistersinger von Nürenberg, Der Rosenkavalier, Le Nozze Di Figaro, Turandot, Mefistofele, and has assisted on over 20 productions. She has collaborated with directors such as Ivo Van Hove, Phelim McDermott and William Kentridge, and is the co-creator of a Stage Director & Manager Fellowship training program. Paula has staged everything from Twelfth Night to Guys And Dolls and has worked at companies such as Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Grand Théâtre de Genève.

Noele Stollmack’s lighting has appeared onstage at The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall, The Library of Congress Theatre, as well as the opera companies of Santa Fe, Ontario, Houston, Portland, Vancouver, New Orleans, Nashville, Madison and Milwaukee. Regional design for the theatre includes Baltimore Center Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Houston’s Alley Theater, Wisconsin’s Chamber Theatre, Renaissance Theaterworks, Skylight Music Theatre, American Players Theatre, Forward Theatre, Next Act Theater, Peninsula Players and Milwaukee Repertory Theatre. Some notable examples of Noele’s scenic realization and set design includes Meredith Monk’s international tours of mercy & impermanence, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Albert Herring, Dido and Aeneas, Venus and Adonis, Rio de Sangre, Macbeth, Tristan und Isolde and Magic Flute for the Florentine Opera, Rape of Lucretia at Toledo Opera, Pagliacci with Columbus Opera, and Mirandolina for the Milwaukee Rep. As Lighting Director for the Houston Grand Opera, Noele supervised the lighting for over 50 operas and designed such productions as Andrei Serban’s Elektra, Dr. Jonathan Miller’s Der Rosenkavalier and the world premieres of Harvey Milk, Desert of Roses and Dracula Diary.

Member: United Scenic Artists Local 829