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A.R.T.: Debut. Opera: World Premieres: A Streetcar Named Desire (Stanley), San Francisco Opera; Nicholas and Alexandra (Nicholas), Los Angeles Opera; Sophie’s Choice (Nathan), Covent Garden/Washington National Opera; Every Man Jack (Jack London), Sonoma City Opera; Margaret Garner (Edward Gaines), Michigan Opera Theatre/ Cincinnati Opera/Opera Company of Philadelphia; Gesualdo, Zurich Opera. A two-time Grammy nominee, Gilfry’s discography of 28 audio and video recordings includes his one-man show My Heart is So Full of You. Gilfry holds the Steven Crocker Chair in Music at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music.

A.R.T.: Debut. Opera: The Nose (The Nose), Rigoletto (Borsa), The Merry Widow (Raoul de St. Brioche), Met Opera; Moby Dick, Washington National Opera; The Magic Flute, West Australian Opera Company; Gloria: A Pig Tale, New York Philharmonic. Musical Theater: Sunday in the Park with George, Victorian Opera Company; Sweeney Todd, Opera Australia; Titanic, Seabiscuit Productions; The Phantom of the Opera, The Really Useful Group. Concerts: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Bangalow Music Festival; Petite Messe Solenelle, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society; Adriana Lecouvreur, The Opera Orchestra of New York.

Davóne Tines, deemed a "singer of immense power and fervor" by The LA Times and a "charismatic, full-voiced bass-baritone" by The New York Times, commands a broad spectrum of opera and concert performance as a singer and creator. Of his recent debut with the San Francisco Symphony, KQED writes, "In a just world, one in which fame was proportionate to talent, Davóne Tines would be as big as Kanye." Highlights from the past year include performances with the Dutch National Opera, Ojai Music Festival, London Symphony, LA Philharmonic, Orchestre national de France, and the Finnish National Opera in collaborations with Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, Matt Aucoin, Caroline Shaw, and Peter Sellars. Upcoming performances include engagements with the Baltic Sea Festival with Esa Pekka Salonen, the San Francisco Opera, Paris Opera, BAM, and the American Repertory Theater, as well as an international tour with the LA Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel. 

A.R.T.: Debut. Opera: The Rape of Lucretia (Male Chorus), Eugene Onegin (Triquet), Juilliard Opera. Performances at the Heidelberger Frühling Festival, Casalmaggiore International Music Festival, with pianist Wenwen Du, the New Juilliard Ensemble, and Pink Martini. B.M., St. Olaf College, M.M., The Juilliard School.

A.R.T.: Debut. Opera: Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera, The Dallas Opera/ Opéra de Monte- Carlo; Boston Lyric Opera; Florentine Opera; Opera Theater of St. Louis; San Francisco Opera Company; Teatre del Liceu; Théâtre de la Monnaie; The Frankfurt Opera; Peter Sellars’ Die Sieben Todsünden, Das Kleine Mahagonny, Così fan tutte, Le nozze di Figaro. Kelley has over 30 recordings, two of which have been awarded Grammys. A resident of Boston, Kelley sings there regularly with Emmanuel Music.

A.R.T.: Debut. Concerts: Schubert’s Mass in G, Manhattan Concert Productions; Carmina Burana, Pacific Symphony; John Harbison’s Flashes and Illuminations, Britten in Song: A Centennial Celebration, SongFusion; Brahms Celebration, Baltimore Lieder Weekend; David Del Tredici’s Dum Dee Tweedle, Detroit Symphony; Handel’s Messiah, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.

Baritone David Kravitz has been widely praised for the "power, character" and "resonance and fluency" of his singing (Boston Globe; Opera News), his "brilliantly natural" acting and "perfect comic timing" (Boston Globe; St. Louis Post-Dispatch), his "eloquent" and "superb" diction (Boston Phoenix; Boston Herald), and his "drop-dead musicianship" (Boston Globe) on both the operatic and the concert stages. In the 2010–11 season, Mr. Kravitz sings the Businessman in Intermezzo for his debut at New York City Opera, and appears as the United Nations Delegate in the world premiere of Tod Machover’s Death and the Powers at Opéra de Monte-Carlo, with subsequent performances of the work that season at Chicago Opera Theater and in Boston in a production by the American Repertory Theater. He also returns to Opera Boston as the Provost Marshall and Gold Merchant in Hindemith’s rarely performed Cardillac, sings Handel’s Messiah for his debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, covers Matthias Goerne in Britten’s War Requiem led by Seiji Ozawa and appears as Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress with Emmanuel Music. He closes the season as Taddeo in L’italiana in Algeri with Boston Midsummer Opera.

A.R.T.: Debut. West End: Candide. Bouffes du Nord, Piccolo Teatro, International Tour: Peter Brook’s Une Flûte Enchantée (Papageno, Molière Award Best Musical). Off-Broadway: La Périchole, New York City Opera; Hello Again (Soldier), Manhattan Theater Source. National Tour: Scrooge the Musical (Young Scrooge). Regional: Les Misérables (Marius), Amarillo Opera. Film: The Producers! TV: “Law & Order SVU”. B.M., The Juilliard School; M.M., Bard College Conservatory. Thanks to Mom, Dad, & Edwin.

A.R.T.: Debut. Opera: Eugene Onegin (Lensky), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Almaviva), La finta giardiniera (Belfiore), Le donne curiose (Florindo), Le nozze di Figaro (Basilio). Concert and opera appearances with Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap Opera Company, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Caramoor Music Festival, New World Symphony. TV: American Voices (PBS Great Performances). B.M. and M.M. from The Juilliard School (Toulmin Foundation Scholar) under the tutelage of Cynthia Hoffmann.

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Coram Boy; Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohème. Opera: Numinous City, Royal Opera House (ROH2); Strange Fruit, New York City Opera/ Harlem School of the Arts; Séance on a Wet Afternoon, American Opera Projects; Four Saints in Three Acts, BAM; Mata Hari, HERE. Regional: The Iliad/ The Odyssey, The Lensic. Concert: A Composer’s Journey with Diedre Murray, The Apollo; Many Many Women, Ostrava New Music Festival; Historia di Job, Aspen Music Festival. Workshop: Arjuna’s Dilemma, Music-Theatre Group.

A.R.T.: Debut. Opera: The Crucible (Rev. Parris), Boston Opera Collaborative; Candide (Candide), Lowell House Opera; Le Docteur Miracle (Silvio), Street Scene (Sam), Spring Symphony (Tenor Soloist), University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. Concerts: Vespers, Kentucky Symphony Orchestra; St. John Passion, Boston Baroque. Upcoming: Hopscotch (Orfeo), The Industry. Education: Harvard College (A.B. ‘09, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology), University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (M.F.A., Vocal Performance).

Baritone Edward Parks is a graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artists Development Program, and made his Metropolitan Opera debut in the 2009-2010 season as Fiorello in Il barbiere di Siviglia. He since appeared at the MET as Schaunard in La bohème, Larkens in La fancuilla del West and returned this season for La Bohème, Don Carlo, and Die Zauberflöte. He sang Valentin in Faust at the Atlanta Opera; the Count in Le nozze di Figaro at Central City Opera, Zurga in Les pêcheurs de perles at the Michigan Opera Theater, Marcello in La bohème and Sharpless in Madama Butterfly at PORT Opera, Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Laurent in the Chicago Opera Theater and Long Beach Opera’s co-production of Tobias Picker’s Thérèse Raquin, and Ford in Falstaff and Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra. Concert credits include a recital with Susan Graham for the Marilyn Horne Foundation, Schubert’s Winterreise at both the Schubert Club in St. Paul and in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, and Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Prague Proms International Music Festival and the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. Future seasons will see his debut with Virginia Opera and a return to the Metropolitan Opera.

A.R.T.: Debut. Opera: Blue Viola (Vernon Addams; World Premiere), Artisphere; L’elisir d’amore (Belcore), Kaye Playhouse; H.M.S. Pinafore (Captain Corcoran), Caramoor Festival; Candide (Maximilian), Globe-News Center; Lear on the Second Floor (Nurse/Lawyer; World Premiere), Conrad Prebys Music Center; Die Fledermaus (Falke), American Ballet Theater; Street Scene (Henry Davis), Norton Hall. Off-Broadway: Lost in the Stars (Villager), Encores!. Workshops: Two Boys, Senna, Met Opera. Film Shorts: Business Romantic/T.Leberecht. Film: Spider-Man 3 (Boom Operator), Columbia Pictures. Concerts: Dooryard Bloom (Jennifer Higdon), Philharmonic of Southern New Jersey.

A.R.T.: Debut. Opera: Il barbiere di Siviglia (Almaviva), Townsend Opera; Once Upon a Mattress (Prince Dauntless), Chautauqua Opera; Il barbiere di Siviglia (Ufficiale), Boston Lyric Opera; Gianni Schicchi (Gherardo), Opera Saratoga; Don Pasquale (Ernesto), Opera in the Heights; Così fan tutte (Ferrando), Cape Cod Opera; Le nozze di Figaro (Don Basilio/Curzio), Connecticut Lyric Opera; Messiah, Rhode Island Philharmonic; Bach’s Magnificat, Back Bay Chorale; Britten’s Les Illuminations, Aurea Ensemble. D.M.A. in voice performance from Boston University.

A.R.T.: Debut. Opera: Dr. Sun Yat Sen, Santa Fe Opera. Dance: Awa’a, Aszure Barton & Artists; Watershed, When the Wolves Came In, Kyle Abraham/ Abraham.In.Motion; Performance, Light Years, Rashaun Mitchell; Do You Like This Title, Wendy Osserman; Fernando Melo’s Shadow Waltz, Tom Weinberger’s BenLeBen, Crystal Pite’s Dark Matters, Springboard Danse Montreal. Training: B.F.A., New York University.

A.R.T.: Debut. Dance: Limbs Theorem 1, Confirmed Dances, Various Works, The Francesca Harper Project; Agon, Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven, The Lark Ascending, Glinka pas de Troi, Pas De Dix, Far But Close, Contested Space, Gloria, Return, Dance Theater of Harlem; Lyrical Male Suite, City Center; Nutcracker (Cavalier/Snow King), Ohman School of Ballet; When Love, Rudolf Nereyev Gala/Vail Festival. Training: B.F.A., The Juilliard School.

A.R.T.: Debut. Dance: Camille A. Brown & Dancers (2014 Bessie Award for Outstanding Production, for Mr. Tol E. Rance); Jose Navas/Compagnie Flak; The 605 Collective; Kate Wallich/ The YC; Ronald K. Brown/Evidence. Education: B.A., Haverford College (Growth & Structure of Cities, conc. Architecture).

A.R.T.: Debut. Opera: Two Boys, Prince Igor, Eugene Onegin, Met Opera; Images of Sappho, Ballet Opera Pantomime. Dance: Dancing The Grimm, Lincoln Center Education; A Type of Translucence, Preferred Project(ion) (Co-Producer and Dancer), Juilliard Center for Innovation in the Arts; Delectable Body, Artificial Paradise, Dau al Set Productions; Grazing Gracefully, The Equus Projects; A Place Where Something Flourishes, Bryan Arias; Make Brilliant Campaign, Pantone; Works by Fernando Melo and Aszure Barton, Springboard Danse Montréal. Dance Performance B.F.A., The Juilliard School.