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principal artist bios (continued)
Andres Benavides Cascante baritone • Sprecher San Jose, Costa Rica b.a. Loyola University Marcello in La Bohème*, Pandolfe in Cendrillon* Gianni Schicchi in Gianni Schicchi (Loyola Opera), Falstaff in Falstaff (Harrower Opera) Upcoming Father in Hansel and Gretel (Yale Opera), 2018 Apprentice Artist with Central City Opera
Hometown Education Yale Opera Recently
Stephen Clark baritone • Don Alfonso Hometown Tulsa, OK Education b.a. Northeastern State University
m.m. Oklahoma City University Yale Opera Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, Luka in The Bear, Father-in-Law in Le
pauvre matelot, Colline in La Bohème*, Haushofmeister in Ariadne auf Naxos*, Don Alfonso in Lucrezia Borgia*, Méphistophélès in Faust* Recently Azarias in The Burning Fiery Furnace (Central City Opera), Bass in Renard (Orchestra New England), Angelotti in Tosca (Central City Opera), A Denver Politician in The Ballad of Baby Doe (Central City Opera), Schaunard in La Bohème (Tulsa Opera) Upcoming Bass Soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (Yale Philharmonia) Matthew Cossack baritone • Sprecher Hometown Brooklyn, NY Education b.m. SUNY Purchase
m.m. Mannes College Yale Opera Joseph De Rocher in Dead Man Walking*, Musiklehrer in Ariadne auf
Naxos* Recently Old Doctor in Vanessa, Belcore in L’elisir d’amore, and John Brooke in
Little Women (Mannes Opera), Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (SUNY Purchase Opera) Upcoming Father in Hansel and Gretel (Yale Opera), Maximillian in Candide (Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra) Sylvia D’Eramo soprano • Pamina Education b.m. SUNY Purchase Yale Opera Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Mimi in La Bohème, Gretel in Hansel und
Gretel*, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni*, Giannetta in L’elisir d’amore