About the Performers
Larry Glenn, Tenor/Stage Director
Larry Glenn is a graduate of The Julliard 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 a soloist with such companies as 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 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 Goundod’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 Pops 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 Israel 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 Mound 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 Copland 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 Camber 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 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.
