Larry Glenn, Tenor/Stage Director

Larry Glenn
Tenor / Stage Director

Larry Glenn is a graduate of The Juilliard School and the senior member of the voice faculty at the University of Denver’s prestigious Lamont School of Music. Mr. Glenn has performed throughout the United States as soloist with such companies as the New York City Opera Theater, Connecticut Opera, Georgia Opera Theater, Bel Canto Opera, New York Lyric Opera, Mobile Opera and The National Opera. He has sung leading roles in over sixty operas including Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Cenerentola, Die Zauberflöte, Mignon, Così Fan Tutte, Faust, L’Elisir d’Amore, Albert Herring, La Traviata, Die Fledermaus, The Merry Widow, Khovanshchina, Il Giuramento, La Fille du Regiment, A Midsummer’s Dream,The Merry Wives of Windsor,and the American premieres of Gounod’s Philemon et Baucis and Fioravanti’s Le Cantatrici Villane. Mr. Glenn has been a featured soloist with the American Symphony Orchestra, Eve Queller’s Opera Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall, Westchester Symphony Orchestra, Schenectady Symphony Orchestra, Virginia Pop’s Orchestra and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra.

His oratorio credits include Orff’s Carmina Burana, and Handel’s Joshua with the Oratorio Society of New York at Carnegie Hall, Haydn’s Creation at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, Handel’s Isreal in Egypt, The Messiah, Acis and Galatea, Bruckner’s Te Deum, Honneger’s Le Roi David, Mozart’s Requiem, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Beethoven’s Christ On The Mount Of Olives, Bach’s Magnificat, St. John and St. Matthew Passions. Mr. Glenn was soloist with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and was a featured soloist in a program of Aaron Copeland songs for the composer, in celebration of his 80th Birthday with the Westchester Symphony Orchestra. Also Mr. Glenn was Tenor Soloist for the International Gubbio Festival in Italy. His International credits also include Handel’s The Messiah with the Oratorio Society of NY in Prague, Czech Republic with the Prague Symphony Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Glenn has sung the operatic lead roles for the Rome Festival which include Nemorino for L’Elisir d’Amore, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, and the Witch in Hänsel und Gretel.

Mr. Glenn has been a Stage Director for such operas as Moore’s Gallantry, Blow’s Venus and Adonis, Holst’s Savitri, Paulus’ The Village Singer, Menotti’s Help, Help The Globolinks, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Puccini’s Suor Angelica, Barber’s Hand of Bridge, Pasatieri’s La Divina & The Women, V. Williams’ Riders To The Sea, and Weill’s Songspiel. For the Rome Festival in Italy he has directed Hänsel und Gretel, Don Giovanni, L’Elisir d’Amore, Le Nozze di Figaro, Die Fledermaus ,and Così Fan Tutte.

Mr. Glenn recently directed Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers and Pucini’s Gianni Schicchi for the Lamont Opera Theatre, Berstein’s Trouble in Tahiti, Ralph Vaughn Williams’ Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains and the two world premiers of Jonathan Schwabe’s The Sojourner, and Kevin McMahon’s Marilyn Monroe for the Maud Powell Festival near Chicago. This past season he directed four American Premier Operas on Aesop’s Fables by four composers and Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona. He has also recently directed Don Giovanni, L’Elisir d,Amore, Carmen and Le Nozze di Figaro for the Rome Festival Opera in Rome, Italy. Mr. Glenn also recently was the featured Tenor Soloist for the world premiere orchestrations of Arturo Toscanini Songs with the Illinois Valley Symphony Orchestra and for Chausson’s Poeme de l’Amour et de la Mer with the New York Repetoire Orchestra in New York City.