Berlioz’ FAUST
Sunday, May 18 — 4 PM
Lensic Performing Arts Center
THE SANTA FE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & CHORUS
Guillermo Figueroa, Music Director
Carmen Florez-Mansi, Choral Director
Maire Therese Carmack, Soprano
Maire joined the Metropolitan Opera in 2023, the same year she made her San Francisco Opera debut and returned to her home base at Deutsche Oper Berlin to sing in Rued Langgaard’s rarely performed Antikrist. She is an alum of the Palm Beach Opera Bailey Apprentice Artist Program, the Glimmerglass Festival Young Artists Program, the Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Singers Program, and the Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artist Program. She holds a Master of Music in Voice Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music, as well as Bachelor of Arts degrees in both Philosophy and Visual and Performing Arts from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
Joseph Dennis, Tenor
Texas-born, Joseph studied at Juilliard. After winning the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, he secured engagements with Washington National Opera, Seattle Opera, Memphis Opera, North Carolina Opera, Virginia Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, and Colorado’s Central City Opera. He appeared at the Spoleto Festival in the world premiere of Huang Ruo’s Paradise Interrupted and with Warsaw Philharmonic for Bernstein’s Candide. Quickly gaining attention in Europe, he launched his career at the Vienna State Opera where he took on a variety of roles. His concert repertoire spans tenor and heldentenor literature from Baroque to contemporary. His lieder recitals at the Vienna State Opera, and more recently at the Semperoper Dresden, Prague National Theater, and the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, have been especially well received.
Brandon Cedel, Bass-Baritone
Brandon is currently a member of Oper Frankfurt. He joined the company in the 2016-2017 season and has performed in new productions of Handel’s Serce and Rinaldo, Janacek’s From the House of the Dead, Mozart’s Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute, Puccini’s Tosca, Stravinsky’s Oedipus and many more. He has also been featured at the Boston Lyric Opera and the Canadian Opera Company, in addition to performances at the Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Opera Philadelphia, and The Kennedy Center. His recent orchestral engagements include an appearance with the BBC Philharmonic for Bernstein’s Songfest, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Russian National Orchestra at the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, and Berlioz’ Les Troyens with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Christopher Humbert, Jr., Bass-Baritone
Christopher has proven himself an audience favorite. He has appeared in productions with The Seattle Festival, Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre, Annapolis Opera, Detroit Opera, and Palm Beach Opera. Christopher was selected to join Opera Theatre St. Louis during the 2020 season, where he was featured in the inaugural “Songs for St. Louis” television concert series. He is a frequent soloist, celebrated for his performances of Mozart’s Requiem and Handel’s Messiah. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Palm Beach Opera, and Lyric Opera of Chicago. He is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Opera Performance from Boston Conservatory, and is a graduate of the Capital University Conservatory of Music.