Brandon Eldredge

Previously at CCO: Assistant Lighting Designer, The Barber of Seville (2025), The Knock (2025), Once Upon a Mattress (2025); Lighting Designer, CCO in Concert (2025) 

Recently: Lighting Designer, The Precipice, Irondale, NYC; Assistant Lighting Designer, A Guide for the Homesick, DR2 Theatre, Off-Broadway; Left on Tenth, Broadway; The Who’s Tommy, Broadway & Goodman Theatre, Chicago; Peter Pan, National Tour

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 

Jeremy Reger

Previously at CCO: Festival Head of Music (2025); Assistant Conductor, The Knock (2025), Street Scene (2024), Kiss Me, Kate (2023), The Light in the Piazza (2022)  

Recently: Co-chair, Voice + Opera, & Associate Professor of Vocal Coaching, University of Colorado Boulder School of Music; Music Staff, Virginia Opera; Opera Steamboat; Eugene Opera; Hawaii Opera Theater; Mill City Opera; St. Paul Chamber Orchestra; Minnesota Opera 

Gabrielle Giacomo

Recently: Assistant Director, The Silent Serenade, Mannes Opera, Mannes School of Music at The New School; Assistant Director, The Rake’s Progress, The Glimmerglass Festival; Assistant Director, Candide, Curtis Opera Theatre 

Jennifer DeDominici

Previously at CCO: Ruth, Pirates of Penzance (2024); Mother, Amahl and the Night Visitors (2024, 2023, 2022); Franca Naccarelli, The Light in the Piazza (2022); Carrie Pipperidge, Carousel (2021) 

Recently: Lady Capulet, Romeo and Juliet, Theatreworks, Colorado Springs; Duchess Estonia Dulworth, Nice Work if You Can Get It, Lone Tree Arts Center; Mrs. Anderssen, A Little Night Music, Denver Center Theatre Company 

Kira Dills-DeSurra

Previously at CCO: Prince Orlofsky, Die Fledermaus (2022); Soloist, ENCORE: A Musical Revue (2018); Second Lady, The Magic Flute (2018); Mercédès, Carmen (2017)  

Recently: La Ciesca, Gianni Schicchi, Salt Marsh Opera; Hansel, Hansel and Gretel, Helena Symphony; Cherubino, Le nozze di Figaro, Opera Idaho; Lola, Cavalleria Rusticana, Opera Colorado 

Hilary Ginther

Previously at CCO: Emma Jones, Street Scene (2024); Emilia, Othello (2023) 

Recently: Marcellina, Le nozze di Figaro, Opera Columbus; Olga, Eugene Onegin, Opera Columbus; Giovanna Seymour, Anna Bolena, Musica Viva Hong Kong; Rosina, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Virginia Opera; Maddalena, Rigoletto, Opera Columbus; La Maestra delle Novizie, Suor Angelica, Opera Omaha; Carmen, Carmen, Amarillo Opera; Alto Soloist, Handel’s Messiah, The National Chorale 

McKenna Ebert

Previously at CCO: Assistant Lighting Designer, The Barber of Seville (2025), The Knock (2025), Once Upon a Mattress (2025); Lighting Designer, CCO in Concert (2025) 

Recently: Lighting Designer, The Precipice, Irondale, NYC; Assistant Lighting Designer, A Guide for the Homesick, DR2 Theatre, Off-Broadway; Left on Tenth, Broadway; The Who’s Tommy, Broadway & Goodman Theatre, Chicago; Peter Pan, National Tour

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 

Olivia Darling

Previously at CCO: Stage Management Intern, Dido and Aeneas (2021), Rigoletto (2021) 

Recently: Calling Stage Manager, The Barber of Seville, Charleston Opera Theatre; Assistant Stage Manager, The Little Prince, The Dallas Opera; La traviata, Opera Colorado 

Alexandra Dill

Previously at CCO: Stitcher / Dresser, The Rape of Lucretia (2008), West Side Story (2008), Susannah (2008) 

Recently: Soft Goods Supervisor, The Boys, Prime Video; Red One, Prime Video; Vought Rising, Prime Video 
 

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 

Lorna Stephens

Recently: Assistant Stage Manager, The Tales of Hoffmann, The Florentine Opera; Don Giovanni, The Florentine Opera; The Flying Dutchman, Des Moines Metro Opera 

Tori Tedeschi Adams

Recently: Iris (cover), Innocence, The Metropolitan Opera; Elva Heaster Shue, Everlasting Faint (World Premiere), Madison Opera; Susanna, Le nozze di Figaro, Opera Las Vegas 

Matthew Cossack

Previously at CCO: Sonora, The Girl of the Golden West (2024); General Harrison Howell, Kiss Me Kate (2023); Count Capulet, Romeo & Juliet (2023) 

Recently: Figaro, The Barber of the Cape (World Premiere), Opera in the Pines; Marcello, La bohème, Opera Naples; Dr. Malatesta, Don Pasquale, Opera Naples 

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 

Patrick Starke

Previously at CCO: Frederic (cover), The Pirates of Penzance (2024); Harry, The Girl of the Golden West (2024) 

Recently: Tonio, Opera on Tour: The Daughter of the Regiment, Boston Lyric Opera; Anthony, Sweeney Todd, Opera Idaho; Prologue/Peter Quint, The Turn of the Screw, Opera Roanoke 

Quinn Middleman

Previously at CCO: Entertainer, The Burning Fiery Furnace (2017); Dorabella (cover), Così fan tutte (2017) 

Recently: Eldest Daughter, Trusted, Chicago Opera Theater; Mother/Witch, Hansel and Gretel, Opera Montana; Berta, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Annapolis Opera 

Justin Ramm-Damron

Previously at CCO: Le Duc, Romeo & Juliet (2023) 

Recently: Sparafucile, Rigoletto, Heartland Opera Theatre, MO; Leporello, Don Giovanni, Shreveport Opera; Colline, La bohème, Shreveport Opera 

Amanda Densmoor

Recently: Gretel, Hansel and Gretel, Shakespeare Opera Theatre, VA; Girl/1st Trio Member, Trouble in Tahiti, Annapolis Opera; Servilia, La clemenza di Tito, Opera Steamboat 

Sabina Balsamo

Recently: Soprano Soloist, Haydn’s Paukenmesse, Dayton Bach Society; Mamselle, Sleepers Awake (Workshop), Cincinnati Opera & University of Cincinnati College – Conservatory of Music; Margery Mansfield, Welcome to the Madness, Opera Steamboat 

Levi Adkins

Recently: Blind, Die Fledermaus, Florida Grand Opera; Pong, Turandot, Florida Grand Opera; Uncle Percy (cover), This House (World Premiere), Opera Theater of St. Louis 

Nisha Patel Caiozzi

Previously at CCO: Nightingale of Samarkand (cover) & Ensemble, Once Upon a Mattress (2025); Ensemble, The Knock (2025) 
 
Recently: Soprano Young Artist, SongStudio 2026, Carnegie Hall; Cupidon, Orphée aux enfers, Fisher Center at Bard College; Lily, Shir Hashirim, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research 

Nicholas Fahrenkrug

Recently: Danilo (cover), The Merry Widow, Sarasota Opera; Guglielmo (cover), Così fan tutte, Sarasota Opera; Philo/Second Geezer, Lysistrata, or The Nude Goddess, Odyssey Opera, Boston 

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 

Olivia Heaner

Recently: Darlene, Family Ties: Take Me Down (Workshop), TellTale Opera Theatre, Baltimore; Valeria, Mayo Buckner: A Life Interrupted, Seagle Festival; Micaëla, Carmen, Seagle Festival 

Tres Hunter

Recently: Flemish Deputy, Don Carlo, The Dallas Opera; Baobab/Hunter, The Little Prince, The Dallas Opera; King/Businessman, The Little Prince, The Dallas Opera Outreach 

Denique Isaac

Previously at CCO: Lady Lucile, Once Upon a Mattress (2025); Soprano #2 (cover), The Knock (2025) 

Recently: Gertie Cummings, Oklahoma!, Pensacola Opera; Violetta (cover), La traviata, Pensacola Opera; Bea, Three Decembers, Pensacola Opera 

Tess Levine

Recently: Tytania (cover), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Opera Theatre of St. Louis; Nellie, Summer and Smoke, Boston Conservatory at Berklee; Tytania, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Boston Conservatory 

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 

Jordan McCready

Recently: Kate Pinkerton, Madama Butterfly, Opera Colorado; Flora, La traviata, Opera Colorado; Stéphano, Romeo & Juliet, Opera Colorado Community Outreach 

Ryan Nash

Nicole Plummer

Recently: Frau Reich, Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Maryland Opera Studio; Dorabella, Cosí fan tutte, Maryland Opera Studio; Ada, Cold Mountain, Seagle Festival 

JJ Robinson

Recently: Marco, Gianni Schicchi, Knoxville Opera; Zuniga, Carmen, Knoxville Opera; Samuel, The Pirates of Penzance, Charlottesville Opera 

Hallie Schmidt

Recently: Zerbinetta, Ariadne auf Naxos, Pacific Northwest Opera; Rose, At the Statue of Venus, Opera Colorado; Armida, Rinaldo, Pacific Northwest Opera 

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 

Russell Spence

Recently: Don Berlico, Le gare generose, FIO MONDO Italia; The Witch, Hansel and Gretel, Miami Beach Classical Music Festival; Orfeo, L’orfeo, Miami Beach Classical Music Festival 

Seth Walley

Recently: Baritone Soloist, Winterreise, Canyon Concert Ballet; Dancaïro, Carmen, Opera Fort Collins; Count Almaviva (cover), Le nozze di Figaro, Opéra des Landes 

Lily Bogas

Recently: Ruggiero, Alcina, San Francisco Conservatory of Music; Dorothée, Cendrillon, San Francisco Conservatory of Music; Sonia (cover), The Dialogue of Memories (World Premiere), Music of Remembrance 

Benjamin Chen

Recently: Il Conte, Le nozze di Figaro, Music on Site, Inc.; Papageno (cover), The Magic Flute, Janiec Opera Company; Don Giovanni, Don Giovanni, Temple Opera Theater, Temple University 

Jared Cohen

Recently: Prunier, La rondine, Northwestern Opera Theater, Northwestern University; El Remendado, Carmen, Northwestern Opera Theater; Frederic, The Pirates of Penzance, The Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company of Chicago 

John Solomon Collins

Recently: Putnam, If I Were You, Maryland Opera Studio, University of Maryland; Nardo, La finta giardiniera, Maryland Opera Studio; Morales, Carmen, Washington Opera Society 

Joshua Cominsky

Recently: Father, Hansel and Gretel, Oklahoma State University Opera; Gianni Schicchi, Gianni Schicchi, Oklahoma Opera and Music Theatre Company, Oklahoma City University; Horace Tabor, The Ballad of Baby Doe, Oklahoma Opera and Music Theatre Company 

Nicholas Cravens

Recently: Nemorino, L’elisir d’amore, Utah Valley Operafest; Gastone de Letorières/Alfredo (cover), La traviata, Opera Idaho; Tybalt, Roméo et Juliette, Opera Idaho 

James Eagle

Recently: Markheim, Markheim, Moores Opera Center, University of Houston; Albert, Hobson’s Choice (World Premiere), Moores Opera Center; Don Magnifico, La Cenerentola, Michigan State University Opera Theatre 

Sidney Grimm

Recently: Valeria, Mayo Buckner: A Life Interrupted, Seagle Festival; Gretel, Hänsel und Gretel, Eklund Opera Program, University of Colorado Boulder; Littler Daughter, Proving Up, Eklund Opera Program 

Olivia Howe

Recently: Cunégonde, Candide, University of British Columbia (UBC) Opera; Queen of the Night, Die Zauberflöte, UBC Opera; Despina (cover), Così fan tutte, Aspen Music Festival and School 

Will Jones

Recently: Ricardo/Mr. Novak (cover), A Nation of Others (World Premiere), UK Opera Theatre, University of Kentucky; Father, Hansel and Gretel, UK Opera Theatre; Count Almaviva, Le nozze di Figaro, UK Opera Theatre 

Akshaya Lakshmi

Recently: Noémie, Cendrillon, San Francisco Conservatory of Music Opera; Fiordiligi, Così fan tutte, No Strings Theatre, Toronto, CA; Mabel, The Pirates of Penzance, Stafford Opera Troupe, Virginia 

Kanade Motomura

Recently: Meg Page, Falstaff, Shepherd School Opera, Rice University; Ruggiero, Alcina, Shepherd School Opera; Hansel, Hansel und Gretel, Tri-Cities Opera (upcoming)

Oluwagbemiga David Oluwo

Recently: King Midas, The Alchemists, Annapolis Opera/Maryland Opera Studio, University of Maryland; Bartolo, Le nozze di Figaro, Music on Site, Inc.; Principal, Paul’s Case, Opera Maine 

Brian Wacker

Recently: Colline, La bohème, Janiec Opera Company, Brevard Music Center; Doctor Grenvil, La traviata, Janiec Opera Company; Pangloss, Candide, Oberlin Opera Theater

Nuria Shin

Recently: Frau Fluth, Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Maryland Opera Studio, University of Maryland; Fiordiligi, Così fan tutte, Maryland Opera Studio; Florencia (cover), Florencia en el Amazonas, Maryland Opera Studio 

 

Carmen Voskuhl

Recently: Bradamante, Alcina, San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) Opera; Prince Charmant, Cendrillon, SFCM Opera; Old Lady, Candide, SFCM Opera; Ensemble, Harvey Milk Reimagined, Opera Parallèle 

Francesca Herrera

Recently: Susanna (cover), The Marriage of Figaro, Wolf Trap Opera; Luisa, Zorro, Arizona Opera; Clorinda, La Cenerentola, Arizona Opera 

Madelin Morales

Previously at CCO: Princess No.12 & Ensemble, Once Upon a Mattress (2025); Chorus, The Knock (2025) 

 Recently: La Ciesca, Gianni Schicchi, Fisher Center at Bard College; Mezzo-soprano Young Artist, SongStudio 2026, Carnegie Hall 

Lily Witemeyer

Recently: Coach & Rehearsal Pianist, The Cunning Little Vixen, University of Tennessee Opera Theatre; Children’s Chorus Director, Carmen, Knoxville Opera; Rehearsal & Orchestra Pianist, Cendrillon, Janiec Opera Company, Brevard Music Center