Dialogues of the Carmelites Performers

Justin Chandler Baptista (The Father Confessor [5/7 & 5/13])
WITH BxO: Randy Curtis (cover), Lady in the Dark OTHER CREDITS: Paul, Company, Opera Steamboat; John Styx, Orpheus in the Underworld, NYU Steinhardt; M.M., NYU Steinhardt; B.M., California State University Long Beach
Philip Barsky (Thierry & 2nd Officer [5/6 & 5/14])
WITH BxO: Charley Johnson (cover), Lady in the Dark OTHER CREDITS: Mr. Bennett, Pride and Prejudice, Peabody Conservatory of Music; Robert Knight, Rhoda and the Fossil Hunt, Peabody Conservatory of Music; 1st Place Winner, Young Artist Competition, Long Island Choral Society; B.M., Peabody Conservatory of Music
Tiernan Elizabeth Chase (Sister Constance [5/7 & 5/13])
WITH BxO: Alison du Bois, Lady in the Dark OTHER CREDITS: Gilda, Rigoletto, Teatro Sociale Novafeltria; Martha, Martha, Manhattan School of Music Graduate Opera Theatre; Musetta, La bohéme, Teatro Sociale Novafeltria; Despina, Così fan tutte, The Opera Next Door; Finalist, Ades Competition; M. M., Manhattan School of Music
Annie Chester (Mother Marie of the Incarnation [5/7 & 5/13])
WITH BxO: Sesto (cover), La clemenza di Tito OTHER CREDITS: Mrs. Grose, Turn of the Screw, Opera Baltimore; Principessa di Bouillon (cover), Adriana Lecouvreur, Baltimore Concert Opera; Sorceress, Dido and Aeneas, Sarasota Opera; Maddalena, Rigoletto, Sarasota Opera; Winner, Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Idaho/Montana & North Dakota/Manitoba District, 2020; Winner, Encouragement Award, Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Northwest Region, 2021
Sarah Daniels (Sister Constance [5/6 & 5/14])
CREDITS: Voice 1, Self Defined Circuits (world premiere), Fresh Squeezed Opera; Monica, The Medium, City Lyric Opera & Chelsea Opera; Quinn, Sidewalk Serenade (world premiere), Chelsea Opera; Chunky, Chunky in Heat (world premiere), Experiments in Opera; Rooster/Frog/Jay, Příhody Lišky Bystroušky, dell’Arte Opera Ensemble; Vocalist/Mover, Alex Temple’s vocal improvisational piece “Dragonflies” (world premiere
Allison Gish (Madame de Croissy, Prioress of the Carmelite Convent [5/7 & 5/13])
WITH BxO: Mother, The Consul OTHER CREDITS: 1st Place Winner, 2021 Rochester International Vocal Competition; Lucretia, The Rape of Lucretia, New Camerata Opera; Fricka, Die Walküre, Trilogy: An Opera Company; Lucia, La gazza ladra, Teatro Nuovo; Dryade, Ariadne auf Naxos, BARN Opera; Alto Soloist, Handel's Messiah, Hudson Valley Philharmonic and Bourbon Baroque
Vince Gover (Javelinot & The Jailer [all performances])
WITH BxO: Russell Paxton, Lady in the Dark OTHER CREDITS: Major-General Stanley, The Pirates of Penzance, Ohio Light Opera; Horace Vandergelder, Hello, Dolly!, Ohio Light Opera; Gaston, Mlle. Modiste, Victor Herbert Renaissance Project; Papageno, Die Zauberflöte, Landlocked Opera; Bartolo, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Opera in the Ozarks; Man on Toilet, Lend Me a Roll, YouTube
Henry Horstmann (Marquis de la Force [5/6 & 5/14])
WITH BxO: Ko-Ko (cover), The Mikado OTHER CREDITS: Giuseppe, The Gondoliers, Gilbert and Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island; Papageno, Die Zauberflöte, New York Lyric Opera Theatre; Lord Dramaleigh, Utopia Limited, Utopia Opera; Figaro, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Winter Harbor Music Festival; UPCOMING: Arac, Princess Ida, Gilbert and Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island; Conte Almaviva, Le nozze di Figaro, Winter Harbor Music Festival
Wil Kellerman (Marquis de la Force [5/7 & 5/13])
WITH BxO: Charley Johnson, Lady in the Dark; The Mikado, The Mikado; Secret Police Agent, The Consul OTHER CREDITS: Figaro, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Winter Harbor Opera; Baritone soloist, Opera Through the Ages, Opera Cecilia; Count Vaudemont, I vespri siciliani, New Amsterdam Opera; Ufficiale, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Teatro Nuovo/Lincoln Center; Golaud, Pelléas et Mélisande, The Cube Festival, VA Tech; Finalist, SAS Performing Arts Vocal Competition
Alonso Jordan Lopez (The Father Confessor [5/6 & 5/14])
WITH BxO: Charley Johnson, Lady in the Dark OTHER CREDITS: Cabaret Performer, Sankaram’s The Infinite Energy of Ada Lovelace, New Camerata Opera; Luigi, Il tabarro, New York Opera Conservatory; Normanno, Lucia di Lammermoor, New York Opera Conservatory; Famiglio (cover), Zandonai’s I Capuleti e I montecchi, Teatro Grattacielo; Masterclass participant, Art Song Preservation Society of New York; Master’s in opera performance, Oklahoma City University
Jeremy Luis Lopez (Chevalier de la Force [5/6 & 5/14])
WITH BxO: Russell Paxton, Lady in the Dark OTHER CREDITS: Tobias Ragg, Sweeney Todd, Eastman Opera Theatre; Mr. Plume, Der Schauspieldirektor, Eastman Opera Theatre; B.M., Eastman School of Music; Upcoming: Bortolo, Crispino e la comare, Teatro Nuovo
Ryan Lustgarten (Chevalier de la Force [5/7 & 5/13])
CREDITS: Gastone, La traviata, Virginia Opera; Soloist, Monteverdi’s Vespers, Upper Valley Baroque; Semi-finalist, Lotte Lenya Competition; Francis Flute (cover), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Des Moines Metro Opera; John Singer Sargent (cover), American Apollo, Des Moines Metro Opera; Jack, Garden of Alice, City Lyric Opera
Ema Mitrović (Madame de Croissy, Prioress of the Carmelite Convent [5/6 & 5/14])
WITH BxO: Háta, The Bartered Bride (canceled due to COVID-19) OTHER CREDITS: Klytämnestra, Elektra, TUNDI; Schwertleite, Die Walküre, TUNDI; Carmen, Carmen, Concert Opera of Philadelphia; Suzuki, Madama Butterfly, Hudson Opera Theatre; UPCOMING: Mrs. Ott, Susannah, Marble City Opera; Prince Orlofsky, Die Fledermaus, New Rochelle Opera
Barbee Monk (Blanche de la Force [5/6 & 5/14])
WITH BxO: Vitellia, La clemenza di Tito; Yum-Yum, The Mikado; Konstanze, The Abduction from the Seraglio; etc. OTHER CREDITS: Soprano Chorus, New York Philharmonic; Soprano, The Exaltation of Inanna, American Contemporary Music Ensemble; Donna Anna, Don Giovanni, Geneva Light Opera; Fiordiligi, Così fan tutte, New York Opera Conservatory; Pamina, Die Zauberflöte, Opera Theatre of Montclair; Ruby, The Only Girl, Victor Herbert Renaissance Project Live!
Miguel Pedroza (Thierry & 2nd Officer [5/7 & 5/13])
WITH BxO: Randy Curtis, Lady in the Dark OTHER CREDITS: Rabbi, Uncovered, City Lyric Opera; Raimbaud, Le Loup Garou, Opera Southwest; Servant, The fall of the House of Usher, Opera Maine; Marchese d’Obigny, La traviata, Opera Columbus; Masetto, Don Giovanni, Opera Columbus; Colline, La bohème, Opera Columbus
Hannah Spierman (Madame Lidoine, the New Prioress [5/6 & 5/14])
WITH BxO: Agathe, Der Freischütz; Alice Ford, Falstaff; Countess Almaviva, The Marriage of Figaro; etc. OTHER CREDITS: Rosalinde, Die Fledermaus, Oswego Opera; Tatyana, Eugene Onegin, Utopia Opera; Cio-Cio-San (cover), Madama Butterfly, North Shore Music Festival; Giorgetta, Il tabarro, Buck Hill-Skytop Music Festival (PA); Vox Tentationis, Oratorio di San Francesco (Ariani), Canterbury Choral Society; UPCOMING: Soprano soloist, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, Litha Symphony Orchestra
Jenna Stewart (Sister Mathilde [all performances])
CREDITS: Giovanna, Rigoletto, Delaware Valley Opera; Hansel, Hänsel und Gretel, Binghamton Opera Theater; Mercédès, Carmen, Glow Lyric Theater; Sorceress, Dido and Aeneas, Binghamton Opera Theater
Alina Tamborini (Blanche de la Force [5/7 & 5/13])
WITH BxO: Servilia, La clemenza di Tito OTHER CREDITS: Amina (cover), La Sonnambula, Teatro Nuovo; Isoletta, La straniera, Teatro Nuovo; Aminta, Il re pastore, Stony Brook Opera Theatre; Soprano soloist, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra; Soloist, Nirmali Fenn's When Apathy is Betrayal (premiere), Contemporary Chamber Players; Winner, Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition - Utah District
Zachary Tirgan (1st Officer [all performances])
WITH BxO: Master of Ceremonies, The Bartered Bride (canceled due to COVID-19); Ensemble, Lady in the Dark; Ensemble, Trial by Jury(film); etc. OTHER CREDITS: frontman of Nouhi’s Nomad; B.A., Sarah Lawrence College
Michelle Trovato (Madame Lidoine, the New Prioress [5/7 & 5/13])
WITH BxO: Zerline, Fra Diavolo; Micaëla, Carmen OTHER CREDITS: Donna Anna, Don Giovanni, DC Public Opera; Nedda, Pagliacci, Martha Cardona Opera Theatre; Erste Dame, Die Zauberflöte, Opera in Williamsburg; Soprano soloist, Poulenc’s Gloria, Philharmonic of Southern New Jersey; Soprano soloist, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, Barnard-Columbia University Choir & Orchestra; 2nd Prize Winner, Sparks & Wiry Cries New York SongSLAM 4.0
Caroline Tye (Mother Marie of the Incarnation [5/6 & 5/14])
WITH BxO: Mother, The Consul; Alice Ford, Sir John In Love; Angelina (Cinderella), Cinderella; Florence Pike, Albert Herring; etc. OTHER CREDITS: Suzuki, Madama Butterfly, Regina Opera; Madame Flora (Baba), The Medium, New Camerata Opera; Carmen, Carmen, Opera Breve; Augusta Tabor, The Ballad of Baby Doe, Utopia Opera; Mercédès, Carmen, Saint Petersburg Opera; Maddalena, Rigoletto, Delaware Valley Opera
Georgina Wu (Mother Jeanne [all performances])
WITH BxO: Miss Foster, Lady in the Dark OTHER CREDITS: La zia principessa, Suor Angelica, La Musica Lirica; B.M. candidate, Manhattan School of Music