Eric Sean Fogel

Recently: Director, The Rake’s Progress, The Glimmerglass Festival; American Rhapsody, Washington National Opera/Kennedy Center; The Barber of Seville, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; Revival Director, The Magic Flute, The Metropolitan Opera; Associate Director, West Side Story, Houston Grand Opera 

Ian Silverman

Recently: Associate Director, Semele, The Atlanta Opera; Assistant Director, Tannhäuser, Houston Grand Opera; Assistant Director, West Side Story, Houston Grand Opera; Associate Director, The Magic Flute, The Atlanta Opera; Director, Beyond the Horizon, Teatro Grattacielo; Associate Director, The Sound of Music, Lyric Opera of Kansas City 

Sable Strout

Previously at CCO: Stéphano, Roméo et Juliette (2023); Sorceress, Dido and Aeneas (2021); Giovanna, Rigoletto (2021) 

Recently: Director, The Barber of the Cape, Opera in the Pines; Assistant Director, Lucidity, On Site Opera/Seattle Opera; Director, The Ugly Duckling, Tri-Cities Opera  

Louis Lohraseb

Recently: Conductor, The Marriage of Figaro, Staatsoper Hamburg; Carmen, Semperoper Dresden; Tosca; The Barber of Seville; La Traviata, LA Opera; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Atlanta Opera

Arthur Bosarge

Previously at CCO: Director of Choruses, The Barber of Seville (2025), The Knock (2025), Once Upon a Mattress (2025); Assistant Conductor, The Pirates of Penzance (2024), Street Scene (2024) 

Recently: Artistic Administrator, Sarasota Opera; Director of Choruses and Director of the Apprentice Artists Program, Sarasota Opera; Music Staff, Matilde (American Premiere), Opera Southwest; A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Utah Festival Opera 

Artyom Pak

Previously at CCO: Pianist, Continuo, The Barber of Seville (2025)

Recently:  Music Director, Apprentice Artists Program, Sarasota Opera; Chorus Director, La bohéme, Sarasota Opera; The Merry Widow, Sarasota Opera; Il trovatore, Sarasota Opera; Susannah, Sarasota Opera; Assistant Conductor, Così fan tutte, Sarasota Opera; Pianist, L’enfant et les sortilèges, The Julliard School; Dialogues des Carmélites, The Juilliard School 

Tyler Tucker

Previously at CCO: Conductor and Pianist Fellow (2025) 

Recently: Music Director & Conductor, All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 by Rothstein, Tri-Cities Opera, NY; Assistant Conductor, Rigoletto, Tri-Cities Opera; Assistant Professor (Vocal Coach), School of Music, The University of Oklahoma; Lecturer in Vocal Coaching and Teaching, Binghampton University; Resident Artist Pianist, Opera Colorado 

Lisa Marie Rogali

Recently: Carmen, Carmen, The Florentine Opera (2025); Rosina, The Barber of Seville, Sarasota Opera (2025); Paquette, Candide, South Florida Symphony Orchestra (2025); Carmen, Carmen, Virginia Opera (2024)

Andrew Morstein

Luke Sutliff

Previously at CCO: Figaro, The Barber of Seville (2025); Soloist, CCO in Concert (2025) 

Recently: Figaro, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Canadian Opera Company; Silvio, Pagliacci, Lyric Opera of Chicago; Count Almaviva, The Marriage of Figaro, The Atlanta Opera; Wolfram Von Eschenbach, Tannhäuser, Houston Grand Opera; Belcore, The Elixir of Love, Santa Fe Opera; 2025 Winner, Baritone, The Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition 

Ashraf Sewailam

Previously at CCO: Dr. Bartolo, The Barber of Seville (2025); The Speaker, The Magic Flute (2018); Balthazar, Amahl and the Night Visitors (2016); Director, Othello (2023) 

Recently: Dr. Bartolo, The Barber of Seville, Opera San Antonio; Samaan, Sindbad: The Omani Sailor, Royal Opera House Muscat/Müpa Budapest; Commendatore, Don Giovanni, Madison Opera; Dulcamara, The Elixir of Love, New Orleans Opera; Dr. Bartolo, The Barber of Seville, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Des Moines Metro Opera, Seattle Opera; Giove, La Calisto, Opera Memphis; Sparafucile, Rigoletto, Opera San Jose 

Stefan Egerstrom

Recently: Fourth Noble, Lohengrin, The Metropolitan Opera; Geisterbote, Die Frau ohne Schatten, San Francisco Opera; Daland (cover), Der fliegende Holländer, Lyric Opera of Chicago; Masetto, Don Giovanni, San Diego Opera; Peneios, Daphne, American Symphony Orchestra; Hunding (cover), Die Walküre, San Diego Symphony; Il Re, Aida, Boston Lyric Opera; Colline, La bohème, Maine Opera; Don Basilio, The Barber of Seville, Minnesota Opera

Laura Corina Sanders

Henrique Carvalho

Currently: Fiorello and Figaro (cover) and Nina Odeschalchi YA Matinee, The Barber of Seville; Ensemble in Once Upon a Mattress; baritone soloist in Yellow Rose Ball Concert; Baritone soloist in CCO Concert

Recently: Dr. Cajus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Maryland Opera Studio, (2025); Marullo, Rigoletto, INseries Opera, (2024); Mr. Bluff, The Impresario, Opera Baltimore, (2024)

Virginia Reed

Currently: Rosina (cover) and Nina Odeschalchi YA Matinee, The Barber of Seville; Mezzo-Soprano soloist in Yellow Rose Ball Concert

Previously with CCO: 2019 Studio Artist: Contralto Soloist, La Damoiselle elue

Recently: Grandmother, Laitman & Gioia’s Maya and the Magic Ring, (Premiere), Lyric Opera of Kansas City, (2025); Berta, The Barber of Seville, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, (2024); Clear String, Gregory & Gregory’s The Haberdasher Prince, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, (2024)

Daniel Michael Miller

Currently: Count Almaviva (cover) and Nina Odeschalchi YA Matinee, The Barber of Seville; Ensemble in Once Upon a Mattress; Tenor Soloist in Yellow Rose Ball Concert

Previously with CCO: 2023 Apprentice; Tybalt, (Nina Odeschalchi Young Artists Matinee) Romeo and Juliet; Second Stage Hand/Philip, Kiss Me Kate; The Doge, Rossini’s Othello

Recently: Tonio, The Daughter of the Regiment, Opera Colorado (2024); Almaviva, The Barber of Seville, Opera Colorado, (2024); Witch, Hansel and Gretel, Opera Colorado (2024)

Jamila Drecker-Waxman

Previously at CCO: Soprano #2, The Knock (2025); Berta, The Barber of Seville (Nina Odescalchi Kelly Training Artists Matinee) (2025); Isabel, The Pirates of Penzance (Nina Odescalchi Kelly Young Artists Matinee) (2024) 

Recently: Zerlina, Don Giovanni, Florentine Opera; Elle, La voix humaine, Modernized Opera Initiative, Brooklyn, NY; Adina, The Elixir of Love, Florentine Opera 

Louis Lee

Currently: Ensemble in The Barber of Seville (except 7/25); Ensemble in Once Upon a Mattress; Chorus Tenor in CCO Concert; (also Almaviva study cover, recital alternate)

Previously with CCO: 2024 Studio Artist; Pony Express Rider, The Girl of the Golden West

Recently: Tenor Soloist, Bach Magnificat BWV 243, I Cantori di Carmel, (2024); Ferrando, Cosi fan tutte, Korea National University of Arts, (2021)

Joshua Jones

Currently: Ensemble in The Barber of Seville; Ensemble in Once Upon a Mattress; Tenor Chorus in CCO Concert; Studio Tenor in Short Works

Previously: Witch, Hansel and Gretel, University of Alabama Opera Theatre, (2025); Kaspar, Amahl and the Night Visitors, University of Alabama Opera Theatre, (2024); Prince Charming, Cendrillon, University of Alabama Opera Theatre, (2024)

Jeremy Luis Lopez

Previously at CCO: Jester (cover)/Sir Luce, Once Upon a Mattress (2025) 

Recently: Little Bat (cover), Susannah, Sarasota Opera; Tebaldo (cover), I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Teatro Nuovo, NY; Camille de Rosillon, Die lustige Witwe, Moores Opera Center, University of Houston 

Ryan Nash

Grant Peck

Currently: Minstrel (cover) in Once Upon a Mattress; Ensemble in The Barber of Seville; Chorus Tenor, CCO Concert

Previously with CCO: 2024 Studio Artist; Jake Wallace (cover), The Girl of the Golden West (2024); Vincent Jones, Street Scene (2024)

Recently: Ping (cover), Turandot, University of Houston, (2025); Gianni Schicchi, Gianni Schicchi, University of Houston, (2025); John Brooke, Little Women, University of Houston, (2024)

Xuyue Qing

Currently: Ensemble in The Barber of Seville; Ensemble in Once Upon a Mattress; Tenor Chorus in CCO Concert; Tenor Soloist in Lunch and a Song

Recently: Don José, Carmen, Music Academy of West (2024); Chevalier de la force, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Eastman Opera Theatre (2024); Malcolm, Macbeth, Opera Western Reserve (2019)

Matthew Soibelman

Currently: Don Basilio (cover) and Nina Odeschalchi YA Matinee, The Barber of Seville; Ensemble in Once Upon a Mattress; Bass Soloist in CCO Concert

Recently: Idreno, Armida, Pittsburgh Opera, (2025); Sciarrone, Tosca, Pittsburgh Opera, (2024); The Commendatore, Don Giovanni, Teatro Grattacielo, (2023)

Adam Hirama Wells

Currently: Sir Harry (cover), Once Upon a Mattress; Chorus Bass, CCO Concert; Baritone Soloist, Drag Me to the Opera at Levitt Pavilion Denver; Baritone Soloist, Lunch and a Song; Ensemble in The Barber of Seville

Recently: Samuel, The Pirates of Penzance, New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, (2025); Fiorello/An Officer, The Barber of Seville, Annapolis Opera, (2024); Oliver Hix/Harold Hill(cover), The Music Man, Charlottesville Opera, (2024)

Jonathan Lawlor

Currently: Sir Studley, Once Upon a Mattress; Apprentice Baritone Soloist, CCO Concert; Baritone Soloist, Lunch and a Song; Ensemble in The Barber of Seville

Previously with CCO: 2024 Apprentice; Major General Stanley, The Pirates of Penzance; Happy, The Girl of the Golden West; Harry Easter (cover), Street Scene

Recently: Morales/Le Dancaïre, Carmen, Shreveport Opera, (2025); Noam Chomsky, American Terror: An Opera (workshop), Hudson Hall at the historic Hudson Opera House, (2024)

Logan Tarwater

Currently: Fiorello (cover) and Nina Odeschalchi YA Matinee, The Barber of Seville; Sir Studley (cover) in Once Upon a Mattress; Bass Chorus in CCO Concert; Studio Baritone in Short Works

Recently: John Sorel, The Consul, Wichita State University (2025); Bishop Latour, Hulme’s December Night, Wichita State University (2024) (world premiere); Hunter, Rusalka, Wichita Grand Opera (2024)

Derek Hale

Previously at CCO: An Officer, The Barber of Seville (2025) 

Recently: Don Alfonso, Così fan tutte, Florida State Opera; Nick Shadow, The Rake’s Progress, Florida State Opera; Balthazar, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Fine Arts Series, The Episcopal Church of the Nativity, AL 

Cindy Dajeong Song

Previously at CCO: Lady H, Once Upon a Mattress (2025); Kate, The Pirates of Penzance (2024); Mrs. Jones (cover), Street Scene (2024) 

Recently: Bradamante, Alcina, University of Indiana Jacobs School of Music; Ramiro, La finta giardiniera, University of Indiana Jacobs School of Music 

Naomi Reisner

Recently: Barber and Hairstylist on HBO MAX’s Fantasmas Season 1, (2024); Hairstylist for American Ballet Theatre’s Season at the Metropolitan Opera House (2024); Barber and Wig Stylist for Wicked on Broadway, (2021-2024)

Lynly A. Saunders

Previously at CCO: Costume Designer, The Barber of Seville (2025) 

Recently: Costume Designer, Treemonisha, Washington National Opera; Dido and Aeneas, Opera Lafayette; The Rake’s Progress, The Glimmerglass Festival 

Matt Herndon

 Previously at CCO: Fight Choreographer, The Girl of the Golden West (2024), Street Scene (2024), The Pirates of Penzance (2024), Romeo and Juliet (2023), Kiss Me, Kate (2023), Othello (2023), Two Remain (2022), Die Fledermaus (2022), The Light in the Piazza (2022)   

Recently: Fight Consultant, A Masked Ball, Opera in the Pines; Fight Choreographer, Carmen, University of Indiana Jacobs School of Music; Sweeney Todd, Jacobs School of Music; Roméo et Juliette, Jacobs School of Music 

Jarryd Lara

Recently: Stitcher, Cabaret, University of North Texas (2025); Costume Designer, Bus Stop, University of North Texas (2024); Stitcher, The Odyssey, Shakespeare Dallas (2024) 

Lucy Guillemette

Previously at CCO: Assistant Stage Manager, The Barber of Seville (2025), The Knock (2025) 

Recently: Assistant Stage Manager, La bohéme, Opera Colorado; Madama Butterfly, Kentucky Opera; Sweeney Todd, Utah Opera; Rigoletto, Opera San Antonio; Pagliacci, Opera San Antonio; The Pirates of Penzance, Opera San Antonio; Madama Butterfly, Opera San Antonio; Ernani, Sarasota Opera; Fidelio, Heartbeat Opera 

Peter Walsh

Previously at CCO: Romeo & Juliet (2023); Othello (2023); Kiss Me Kate (2023); Street Scene (2024); The Girl of the Golden West (2024); The Pirates of Penzance (2024)

Recently: Morristown Beard School; The Matchmaker (2024); Legally Blonde (2024)

Ksenia Leletkina

Recently: Associate Conductor, Metropolitan Opera; Principal Coach and Assistant Conductor, Palm Beach Opera; Guest Faculty, Eastman School of Music; Vocal Coach, Eastman Opera Theatre; Opera Naples; Renata Scotto Opera Program 

Andrew Boyce

Recently: Set Designer, The Barber of Seville, Opera Theater of St. Louis; Pelléas et Mélisande, Des Moines Metro Opera; Don Giovanni, Merola Opera, The Light in the Piazza, Huntington; Legacy of Light, McCarter; You Will Get Sick, Steppenwolf; Frankenstein, Shakespeare Theater Company 

Nora Marlow Smith

Previously at CCO: Associate Set Designer, The Barber of Seville (2025) 

Recently: Set Designer, Annie, Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre, MO; Disaster!, Waitress, Rent, Pipeline, Omaha Community Playhouse; Once on This Island, The Mountaintop, The Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate New York; Sweeney Todd, Urinetown, Fiddler on the Roof, Proctor’s Collaborative School of the Arts, NY; Costume Designer The Onion: A New Opera, Sawyer & Bashford Huntington Theatre 

Abigail Hoke-Brady

Previously at CCO: Lighting Designer, The Barber of Seville (2025), The Knock (2025), Once Upon a Mattress (2025), The Pirates of Penzance (2024), The Girl of the Golden West (2024), Street Scene (2024), Romeo & Juliet (2023), Kiss Me, Kate (2023), Othello (2023)  

 

Recently: Lighting Designer, A Doll’s House, Two River Theater; Little Miss Perfect, The Olney Theater; Intelligence, Virginia Opera; La traviata, San Diego Opera; Tosca, Pittsburgh Opera; Pagliacci, Seattle Opera; Roméo et Juliette, Toledo Opera; Don Pasquale, Opera Omaha

Miranda Graves

Previously at CCO: Wardrobe Supervisor/Costume Shop Manager, Pirates of Penzance (2024); The Girl of the Golden West (2024); Street Scene (2024); Romeo & Juliet (2023); Kiss Me, Kate (2023); Otello (2023); Two Remain (2022); Die Fledermaus (2022); The Light in the Piazza (2022) 

Candace Leyland

Previously at CCO: Wig and Makeup Designer, The Barber of Seville (2025), The Knock (2025), Once Upon a Mattress (2025); Wig and Makeup Assistant, The Pirates of Penzance (2024), The Girl of the Golden West (2024), Street Scene (2024), Madama Butterfly (2019), Billy Budd (2019)  

Recently: Wig & Makeup Designer, The Marriage of Figaro, Opera Omaha; Wigs, Hair and Make-Up Designer, La traviata, Opera Columbus; Wig Designer, The Rocky Horror Show, The Carnegie; Assistant Wig & Makeup Designer, Madama Butterfly, Pittsburgh Opera; Don Giovanni, Opera Omaha

Kendra Green

Previously at CCO: Stage Manager, The Barber of Seville (2025), The Girl of the Golden West (2024); Assistant Stage Manager, Street Scene (2024)  

Recently: Production Stage Manager, La traviata, Opera Colorado; Il trovatore in Concert, Opera Colorado; La bohéme, Opera Colorado; Stage Manager, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Colorado Ballet; The Great Gatsby, Colorado Ballet; The Nutcracker, Colorado Ballet 

Isabel Simoes deCarvalho

Previously at CCO: Pirates of Penzance (2024), Girl of the Golden West (2024), Street Scene (2024) 

Recently: Prop Artisan & Warehouse Supervisor, The Old Globe Theatre; Scenic Design, The Magic Hummingbird, Opera Tijuana; In A Sunshine State, Don Powell Theatre 

Kohei Umetani

Recently: Film Acting: Procession, House of Kodo; Industrial/Commercial Acting: Costello Productions

Venicia Lamy

Recently: Set costumer, Milk Shake Kiss, Cornell Performing and Media Arts Center (2025)

Gia Vainisi

Recently: Props Designer, Big Fish, University of Southern Mississippi (2025); The Lieutenant of Inishmore, University of Southern Mississippi (2024); Electra, University of Southern Mississippi (2024); Doctor Faustus, University of Southern Mississippi (2023)

Claire Yuccas

Recently: Student Draper, Orfeo, Lyric Theatre at Illinois (2025); Student Draper, Dracula, A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really, Illinois Theatre (2024);
Wardrobe, Sense and Sensibility/Twelfth Night, Illinois Shakespeare Festival (2024); Stitcher, Sense and Sensibility, Illinois Shakespeare Festival (2024); Assistant Costume Designer, The Gangster Play Circus/Circus, Illinois Theatre (2024); Costume Crafts, The Realness, Illinois Theatre (2023)

Kalyn Paradis

Recently: Assistant to the Costume Designer, 12 Ophelias: a play in broken songs, Pittsburgh Playhouse (2025); Costume Designer, The Starling & The Sparrow, Ghostlight Theatre Company (2024); Wardrobe Supervisor, Polyphone Festival of New Musicals, The University of the Arts (2024)

Amelia May

Recently: Makeup Artist / Production Assistant, Spamalot, Performing Arts Training Program NYC (On Broadway); Wig Run Crew, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Theatre School at DePaul University; Film: Hair and Makeup, Hunting Season, Prairie Creek Productions; The Immortal, NY Film Academy; Best Seller, NY Film Academy; Nightwalker, NY Film Academy

Andrew Wilkowske

Previously at CCO: Dr. Bartolo, The Barber of Seville (2025) 

Recently: Doctor Bartolo, The Barber of Seville, Minnesota Opera; Don Alfonso, Cosí fan tutte, Madison Opera; All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914, Asolo Repertory Theatre, FL; Baron de Pictordu, Cinderella, Opera Montana; VOXSPEX, Opera Reading Project; Gary, Ofrenda by Sosa and De Los Santos, Minneapolis Center for the Performing Arts; Bass Soloist, Mass of Guðbrandur by Rúnarsdóttir, Trinity Lutheran Church, Stillwater, MN