Leah Edwards, lauded for visionary leadership and a pragmatic approach to business, thrives on harnessing the power of the arts to engage communities. Leah integrates her cross-disciplinary expertise to strengthen missions, deepen connection, and expand impact on the world around her. A Juilliard-trained soprano (MM) with a Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of...
Maestra Rakefet Hak is a conductor, music director, coach, and pianist whose career on the podium is gaining momentum, with recent and upcoming engagements in both standard and contemporary opera repertoire. This season, she conducts The Turn of the Screw at UCLA and Nico Muhly’s Dark Sisters at the Manhattan School of Music, a piece...
Tenor Dimitri Pittas has graced leading opera stages across North America and Europe, including the Bavarian State Opera, Vienna State Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Bolshoi, and Canadian Opera Company. A graduate of The Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Dimitri joins the company once again for the 2026-2027 season opening production of...
With over 85 roles in his repertoire, Corey Trahan is an active performer, educator and stage director in opera, oratorio, music theatre, operetta and recital venues.
World renowned soprano Marina Costa Jackson has performed in concert with Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Andrea Bocelli, and debuted as one of the Costa-Jackson Sisters Trio in the International Festival “Palaces of St. Petersburg”.
British vocal coach Paul Plummer is the Studienleiter at the Staatstheater in Oldenburg, where he also is the head vocal coach of the newly formed Opera Studio.
José's upcoming directing engagements include Rigoletto for San Francisco Opera, Salome for San Diego Opera, Tosca for Cincinnati Opera, and Così fan Tutte at the Academy of Vocal Arts. In August 2025 he takes up the post of Associate Professor of Opera at UC College-Conservatory of Music.
Arthur Fagen has been the Music Director of the Atlanta Opera since 2010 and is Professor of Orchestral Conducting at Indiana University.
J. David Jackson gained critical acclaim leading the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in performances of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice staring Anthony Roth Costanzo. He returns to the Met this season for Die Zauberflöte.
Robin Blauers’ directed the European Premiere of Mark Adamo’s Little Women at the Stadsschouwburg in Bruges, Belgium.
