WHO’S WHO
Susan Hellman
Spatafora
(Leila)
Soprano
OPERA TAMPA DEBUT
OTHER ENGAGEMENTS:
Soloist, Symphony No. 9 in
D Minor, Op. 125, and
Neue Liebeslieder, Op. 65
(Dranoff International 2 Piano Foundation)
Soloist, Missa in Angustiis (Tampa Oratorio Singers)
Giulietta in Les Contes D’Hoffmann
(St. Petersburg Opera, Fla.)
FUTURE ENGAGEMENTS:
Title role in Suor Angelica
(St. Petersburg Opera, Fla.)
Samuel Hall
(Nadir)
Tenor
PREVIOUS OPERA TAMPA
PRODUCTIONS:
Malcolm in Macbeth
OTHER ENGAGEMENTS:
Title role in Faust
(St. Petersburg Opera, Fla.)
Riccardo in Un Ballo in Maschera (Mid-Ohio Opera)
Spalanzani in Les Contes d’Hoffmann
(Opera Orlando, Fla.)
FUTURE ENGAGEMENTS:
B. F. Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly
(St. Petersburg Opera, Fla.)
SamuelHallTenor.com
Kevin Langan
(Nourabad)
Bass
OPERA TAMPA DEBUT
OTHER ENGAGEMENTS:
Gremin in Eugene Onegin
(Opera Santa Barbara,
Calif.)
Osmin in Abduction from the
Seraglio (Livermore Valley Opera, Calif.)
Piero in Pia De’Tolomei (Spoleto Festival,
Charleston, S.C.)
FUTURE ENGAGEMENTS:
Seneca in L’incoronazione di Poppea
(Boston Baroque, Mass.)
Timothy Renner
(Zurga)
Baritone
OPERA TAMPA DEBUT
OTHER ENGAGEMENTS:
Escamillo in Carmen
(New National Theatre,
Tokyo)
Germont in La Traviata and
Conte di Luna in Il Trovatore
(Academy of Vocal Arts, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Jorge Parodi
(Conductor)
The music director of the Senior
Opera Theater at the Manhattan
School of Music, Jorge Parodi
has worked as a conductor
at Buenos Aires Lírica
(Argentina), The Banff Centre
(Canada), Tsaritsynskaya Opera
Volgograd (Russia), Encuentros Internacionales
de Opera (Mexico), Hofstra University and New
York University, among others. Hailed as having
“the most expressive conducting hands since
Stokowski’s” (New York Daily News), Parodi has
collaborated with such artists as Tito Capobianco,
Sherrill Milnes and Rufus Wainwright, and has
assisted conductors of the caliber of Lorin Maazel
and Julius Rudel. He debuted as conductor with
Opera Tampa in its 2018 production of The Barber of
Seville; he also conducted The Marriage of Figaro and
this season’s Lady Swanwhite.
Eve Summer
(Stage Director)
Hailed as “a rising star of stage directing whose
approach to directing refreshes hope for the future of
opera,” Summer directs this season The Little Prince
at Tulsa Opera, The Tales of Hoffmann at Opera
Orlando and Aida at Boheme Opera New Jersey.
Selected recent directing credits include Trouble in
Tahiti at the Glimmerglass Festival, Così fan tutte at
Connecticut Lyric Opera, Lucia di Lammermoor at
Boheme Opera New Jersey and Commonwealth
Opera, Xerxes at Connecticut Early Music Festival,
Carmen at MetroWest Opera, The Magic Flute for
University of Hartford and Le nozze di Figaro for
dell’Arte Opera Ensemble. EveSummerDirector.com.
•
/SamuelHallTenor.com
/EveSummerDirector.com
/www.operatampa.org