A Night at the Opera: Love, Longing … Shenanigans!

Jeannie Im has performed extensively in operas and concerts in the U.S. and throughout Europe. She was recently noted by Opera News for her “gorgeous line and touching intensity”as Fiordiligi. Her operatic roles performed include Queen of the Night, Fiordiligi, Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier), Cleopatra, Zerlina, and Pamina. She has sung at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Altenburger Musikfestival, Elysium Festival Bernried, Bel Canto at Caramoor, California Music Festival, among other venues. Her concert work includes several performances at Carnegie Hall, in addition to numerous concerts in New York and throughout Europe under the auspices of Elysium-Between Two Continents. She has also been a regularly featured soloist both as a singer and a bass violist da gamba, with the Center for Early Music at NYU.

Glen Cortese has had hundreds of guest engagements as the conductor of dozens of orchestras, opera companies and summer festivals around the world. 

He has appeared with the New Jersey Symphony, the North Carolina Symphony, the Florida Philharmonic, the Belarus State Philharmonic, Sofia Philharmonic, the National Romanian Radio Orchestra the the Slovak Radio Orchestra and the Mexico City Philharmonic. His opera credits include the New York City Opera, the Florida Grand Opera, Wolftrap Opera, the Cleveland Lyric Opera and the Eugene Opera. 

His credits in the world of dance include performances with the Connecticut Ballet, the Joffrey Ballet, the Elisa Monte Dance Company and he appeared regularly for five years as music director for the Erick Hawkins Dance Company at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Joyce Theatre and on national tours. 
A champion of new music, Glen  has conducted over 150 premieres, working in direct collaboration with composers such as Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, John Corigliano, George Crumb, Richard Danielpour, Peter Maxwell Davies, Lukas Foss, Hans Werner Henze, and Ralph Shapey.

His work in education is extensive, including leading the orchestra at the Manhattan School of Music for twelve seasons, where he was the eight-time recipient of the ASCAP New and Adventuresome Programming Award for his work there. He has created community outreach programs, educational concerts and children’s videos on classical music.

He was an assistant conductor to the New York Philharmonic from 1990–92 for Zubin Mehta and in July of 1993, he was invited by Kurt Masur to guest conduct a reading with the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall.

Glen is also an award-winning composer, having won the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a two-time winner of the Joseph E. Bearns Prize.

At present he is the music director of the Greeley Philharmonic in Colorado and the artistic director of the Western New York Chamber Orchestra. He was named music director emeritus of the Oregon Mozart Players after serving as artistic director for nine seasons.

PETER KENDALL CLARK is a true ‘crossover’ baritone whose repertoire spans contemporary and traditional opera, musical theater and concert works. He works frequently with living composers and created the title roles in Ricky Ian Gordon’s The Garden Of The Finzi-Continis and Ted Rosenthal’s Dear Erich with New York City Opera. Recent roles include Pirate King in Pirates of Penzance (Charlottesville Opera), Dr. Malatesta in Don Pasquale (Union Avenue Opera), Harry Easter in Street Scene (Virginia Opera) and MacHeath in The Threepenny Opera (Syracuse Opera). His theater roles include Sweeney Todd (Hawaii Opera Theater), Harold Hill (St. Petersburg Opera), Fredrik Eggerman (Union Avenue Opera, Syracuse Opera), the Baron in Candide (NYCO and Anchorage Opera), and El Gallo in The Fantasticks (Tri-Cities Opera). This past season he played Older Thompson in Tom Cipullo’s Glory Denied at Greenbsboro Opera, having performed it with Chelsea Opera, Union Avenue Opera, Opera Company of Middlebury and Opera Roanoke over the past decade. Beginning in May of 2020, his nightly stoop concerts in Brooklyn garnered global media attention (“the hottest ticket in town”- New York Post); as the ‘Brownstone Baritone’ he continues to give his cabaret style concerts regularly in Brooklyn Heights and around the country. Insta @Brownstone Baritone.

Lucas Levy: Admired by The New Yorker for his “vocal and emotional warmth,” American tenor Lucas Levy is known for his voice of burnished gold, his “rich dark voice” opening into a ringing top capable of both “enormous” high notes and pianissimi like thread through the eye of a needle. From his early career as a character tenor, Levy has performed the expanse of the tenor repertoire on 3 continents, now arriving at the most exciting lirico-spinto roles in Italian, French, and German.

This season, Levy sings the Verdi Requiem with the Schenectady-Saratoga Symphony Orchestra, returns to Opera Company of Middlebury for Scalia/Ginsburg, returns to the Columbia Bach Society for The Bells, performs operatic favorites with the Clinton Symphony, and joins the iSING! Festival to sing Ancient Tang Poems in a world tour beginning in China.

Levy is a grant recipient from the Olga Forrai Foundation for Dramatic Voices. He received his Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin Conservatory, and his Master of Music degree from Westminster Choir College.

Mr. Levy hails from Lexington, Massachusetts, and currently resides in New York City.

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