Known especially for his large-scale work of opera’s most well-known productions, Bruce has created stagings of Turandot, Carmen, Tosca, Aida, Pagliacci, and La bohème that have been seen coast to coast. Bruce’s body of work includes directing at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, and his European opera debut staging Turandot for the … Read more
Antonello Allemandi has graduated from G. Verdi Conservatory in Milan, his hometown, and has made his debut at only 21 conducting at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Ever since then, he has been in great demand with leading orchestra and most prominent opera houses worldwide. Awarded with the prestigious Médaille d’or in Bilbao in occasion of the … Read more
Dennis Jesse, baritone has performed in a variety of genres for over twenty-five years. He began his career on the musical theater stage, moved to operetta and ultimately to grand opera. He continues to perform in all these styles. He frequents the stages of many of America’s regional opera houses, recently with Central City Opera … Read more
Baritone Thomas Glass is a Grand Prize winner of the 2019 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and a recent alum of the Houston Grand Opera Studio. In the 2021-2022 season, Thomas Glass made his debut at The Metropolitan Opera in Puccini’s Turandot and Madama Buttefly, and returned to Houston Grand Opera as Papageno in The … Read more
Praised for her “silvery, ethereal-sounding Sophie” by Opera magazine and “lovely vocal delicacy” in The Telegraph, Madison Leonard returns to the roles or Gilda in Rigoletto and Juliette in Roméo et Juliette with Dallas Opera and Central City Opera, respectively, in the 2022-23 season. She also makes roles debuts as Leïla in Les pêcheurs des … Read more
