BruSchi Performers

Brian J. Alvarado (Filiberto / Simone [dates tbd])
WITH BxO: Leporello, Don Giovanni; Pish-Tush, The Mikado; Kuno, Der Freischütz; etc. CREDITS: Eugene Johnson, Blind Injustice, Opera Theatre of the Rockies; Tom, Un ballo in maschera, Opera Project Columbus; Frank, Die Fledermaus, New Rochelle Opera; J.W. Wells, The Sorcerer, Utopia Opera UPCOMING: Angelotti, Tosca, Opera Vermont; Boatswain/Captain Corcoran (cover), H.M.S. Pinafore, Opera Kansas
John T. Carr III (Servant / Maestro Spinelloccio [all dates])
WITH BxO: 1st Officer (cover), Dialogues of the Carmelites; Innkeeper, Falstaff; Peter Simple (cover), Sir John in Love; Cal (cover), Regina; Innkeeper (cover), Die drei Pintos; Ensemble, Lady in the Dark; Ensemble, Trial by Jury (film); etc.
James Danner (Florville / Gherardo [dates tbd])
CREDITS: Rustighello, Lucrezia Borgia, New Amsterdam Opera; Rodolfo (cover), La bohème, Fargo Moorhead Opera; Ricky, The Lover, Love Bites, Fargo Moorhead Opera; Pelléas, Pelléas et Mélisande, dell’Arte Opera Ensemble; Paolo Erisso (cover), Maometto II, Teatro Nuovo
Hart Gilula (Police Commissioner / Amantio di Nicolao [dates tbd])
CREDITS: Masetto, Don Giovanni, Natchez Festival of Music; Pish-Tush, The Mikado, Natchez Festival of Music; Leporello (cover), Don Giovanni, Opera New Jersey; Bartolo, Le nozze di Figaro, Bay View Music Festival; Prize winner, West Bay Opera/Henry Holt Competition; B.A., M.A. – Humanities, Stanford University
Miastasha Gonzalez-Colòn (Zita [dates tbd])
CREDITS: Mother Marie, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Purchase Opera; Dido, Dido and Aeneas, Purchase Opera; Hand, In the Green, Mannes School of Music; Soloist, Palmeri’s Misa a Buenos Aires, New York City Master Chorale; Mezzo soloist, Abbi Betinis’ Bar xizam, New York Choral Society; Semi-finalist, SAS Performing Arts Vocal Competition
Gabriel Enrique Hernandez (Bruschino Jr. / Rinuccio [dates tbd])
WITH BxO: Ottavio, Don Giovanni CREDITS: Le Comte Barigoule, Cendrillon, Resonance Works; Don Ottavio, Don Giovanni, Fargo Moorhead Opera; Scaramuccio, Ariadne auf Naxos, The Lakes Area Music Festival; Rememdado, Carmen, Hogfish Festival UPCOMING: Peter Quint, Turn of the Screw, Opera Ithaca; Camille, The Merry Widow, Geneva Light Opera
Henry Horstmann (Filiberto / Marco [dates tbd])
WITH BxO: The Marquis de la Force, Dialogues of the Carmelites; Ko-Ko (cover), The Mikado CREDITS: Conte Almaviva, Le nozze di Figaro, Winter Harbor Music Festival; Boatswain, H.M.S. Pinafore, Utopia Opera; Arac, Princess Ida, Gilbert and Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island; Figaro, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Winter Harbor Music Festival UPCOMING: Dr. Malatesta, Don Pasquale, Winter Harbor Music Festival; Strephon, Iolanthe, Gilbert and Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island
Melina Jaharis (Marianna / La Ciesca [dates tbd])
CREDITS: Santuzza (cover), Cavalleria Rusticana, MidAtlantic Opera; La Gran Vestale (cover), La Vestale, Teatro Grattacielo; Amneris (cover), Aida, Utah Festival Opera; Ortrud (cover), Lohengrin, Utah Festival Opera; Madre (cover), Madama Butterfly, Sarasota Opera; Contessa di Ceprano, Rigoletto, Wolf Trap Opera; Carmen, Carmen, MIOpera
Nikhil Krishna (Servant / Pinellino [all dates])
CREDITS: Borsa, Rigoletto, Regina Opera Company; Detlef, The Student Prince, Regina Opera Company UPCOMING: Arturo, Lucia di Lammermoor, Regina Opera Company
Nicholas LaGesse (Bruschino Sr. / Betto [dates tbd])
CREDITS: Mercutio, Romeo and Juliette, Boston Lyric Opera; Abdul (Omar's Brother), Omar, Boston Lyric Opera; Silvio (cover), Pagliacci, Boston Lyric Opera; Count Danilo, Merry Widow, Pacific Opera Project; Harlekin, Ariadne auf Naxos, Pacific Opera Project; Don Giovanni (cover), Don Giovanni, Pacific Opera Project
Jacqueline Ledesma (Marianna / La Ciesca [dates tbd])
CREDITS: Maddalena, Rigoletto, New Jersey Lyric Opera; Amneris (excerpts), Aida, New York Dramatic Voices; Carmen (highlights), Carmen, Athena Music Foundation; The Mother, Amahl and the Night Visitors, St. Anthony of Padua Church; Mozart Requiem, Fordham University/Bronx Arts Ensemble; M.A. – Dance Education, NYU Steinhardt
Samantha Long (Nella [dates tbd])
CREDITS: Alcina, Alcina, Operativo; Pamina, Die Zauberflöte, Miami Music Festival; Iolanta, Iolanta, Russian Opera Workshop; Susannah, Susaanah, Rice University; Congregant/Various, Taking Up Serpents, Rice University; Contessa Almaviva, Le nozze di Figaro, Prague Summer Nights
James Mancuso (Bruschino Jr. / Rinuccio)
CREDITS: Gaius Gracchus (cover), Gracchus (premiere), Delphic Forge; Yamadori (cover), Madama Butterfly, Sarasota Opera; Dormont (cover), La scala di seta, Sarasota Opera; Uldino (cover), Attila, Sarasota Opera; B.M., Florida Southern College UPCOMING: Joe, La fanciulla del West, Central City Opera
Isaac Mann (Servant / Guccio [all dates])
CREDITS: Blosius (cover), Gracchus, Delphic Forge; Bass-Baritone soloist, The Constitution: A Secular Oratorio, Vertical Player Repertory; Soloist, Flatbush-Tompkins Congregational Church; Section Leader, Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra; Section Leader, Brooklyn Philharmonia Chorus; Soloist; Redeemer St. John’s Lutheran Church
Bryan McClary (Bruschino Sr. / Betto [dates tbd])
CREDITS: Sacristan, Tosca, NJ Lryic; Crispino (Cover), Crispino e la comare, Teatro Nuovo; Vater, Hänsel und Gretel, IU Opera Theater; Don Giovanni (Cover), Don Giovanni, Teatro Grattacielo; Masetto, Don Giovanni, Teatro Grattacielo & Chicago Summer Opera; Encouragement Award, Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition – Saint Louis District
Ema Mitrović (Zita [dates tbd])
WITH BxO: Madame de Croissy, Prioress of the Carmelite Convent, Dialogues of the Carmelites; Háta, The Bartered Bride (canceled due to COVID-19) CREDITS: Carmen, Carmen, Concert Opera of Philadelphia; Prince Orlofsky, Die Fledermaus, New Rochelle Opera; Schwertleite, Die Walküre, TUNDI; Mrs. McLean, Susannah, The Lighthouse Opera Company UPCOMING: Giovanna/Page, Rigoletto, Druid City Opera; Soloist, Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 2, New England Repertory Orchestra
Michael Niemann (Gianni Schicchi [dates tbd])
CREDITS: Germont, La traviata, Oswego Opera; Vanzetti, Sacco and Vanzetti (orchestral premiere), After Dinner Opera Company; John Shears (cover), Paul Bunyan, New York City Opera; Captain Corcoran, H.M.S. Pinafore, New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players; Dandini, La Cenerentola, New York City Opera (production for students); El Dancaïro, Carmen, Chautauqua Opera
Justin Ramm-Damron (Gaudenzio / Simone [dates tbd])
CREDITS: Angelotti, Tosca, New Jersey Lyric Opera; Bartolo, Le nozze di Figaro, Opera Magnifico; Melisso (cover), Alcina, St. Petersburg Opera; Le duc, Roméo et Juliette, Sarasota Opera; Un officier municipal, Thérèse, Sarasota Opera; Masetto (cover), Don Giovanni, Sarasota Opera
Claire Skotzko (Sofia / Lauretta [dates tbd])
WITH BxO: Servilia, La clemenza di Tito CREDITS: Elsie, The Yeoman of the Guard, Ridgewood Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company; Leïla, Les pêcheurs de perles, OU Opera Theater; Despina, Così fan tutte, OU Opera Theater; Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz, St. Patrick’s Cathedral (NYC); Carmina Burana, Orchestra of Southern Utah; M.M. - Opera Performance, University of Oklahoma
Nicholas Skotzko (Gaudenzio / Marco [dates tbd])
CREDITS: Don Alfonso, Così fan tutte, Opera North; Il barone, La traviata, Opera North; Bass soloist, Messiah Festival of the Arts; Il conte, Le nozze di Figaro, University of Miami; Don Onofrio, The Leopard (world premiere), University of Miami; Bass soloist, Voices of Light (Polish premiere), Legnica Cantat
Alina Tamborini (Sofia / Lauretta [dates tbd])
WITH BxO: Blanche de la Force, Dialogues of the Carmelites; Servilia, La clemenza di Tito CREDITS: Isoletta, La straniera, Teatro Nuovo; 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 UPCOMING: Amina, La sonnambula, Bel Cantanti Opera; Giulietta, I Capuleti ed i Montecchi, Teatro Nuovo
Brenda Marie Turner (Nella [dates tbd])
CREDITS: Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni, Floating Opera Company; Sandman, Hansel and Gretel, Mainstreet Opera; Micaëla, Carmen, Treasure Coast Opera; High Priestess, Aida, Palm Beach Opera; Soloist, Donna Brown and the Golden Gospel Pearls, Berliner Philharmonie; Soloist, Celebration of Dr. King, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Associates
Elsa Werner (Gherardino [all dates])
WITH BxO: Ensemble, Falstaff CREDITS: Deloris van Cartier, Sister Act Jr., Riverdale Junior Rising Stars; Zeesie, When Zaydeh Danced on Eldridge Street, The Zeesie Project; Ms. Hannigan, Annie, Riverdale Junior Rising Stars; Medda, Newsies Jr., Riverdale Junior Rising Stars; Silver Medalist, Young Maestro Competition, Carnegie Hall; Manhattan School of Music Precollege – Violin
Erik Nelson Werner (Gianni Schicchi [dates tbd])
CREDITS: Parsifal, Parsifal, Karlsruhe State Opera; Siegmund, Die Walküre, Maggio Musicale Florence; Florestan, Fidelio, Warsaw Beethoven Festival; Dimitri, Boris Godunov, Lyric Opera of Chicago; Chartkov, The Portrait (Weinberg), Opéra national de Lorraine; 4th Prize & Orchestra Prize Winner, Lauritz Melchior Wagner Competition
Matthew Youngblood (Florville / Gherardo [dates tbd])
CREDITS: Tamino, Die Zauberflöte, Queens Summer Vocal Institute; Javier, Luisa Fernanda, Florida State Opera; Mitch, A Streetcar Named Desire, Florida State Opera; Uriel, Haydn’s The Creation, Tallahassee Community Chorus; Winner, Hannah J. Beaulieu Competition; M.M., Florida State University
Samuel Rachmuth (Police Commissioner / Amantio di Nicolao [dates tbd])
Seneca, L’incoronazione di Poppea, Mannes Opera; Figaro, Le nozze di Figaro, Opera Magnifico; Sciarrone, Tosca, Charlottesville Opera; Giove, La Calisto, Mannes Opera; The Jailer, Tosca, Sarasota Opera; 2022 & 2023 District Encouragement Prize Winner, Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition