Tenor ALAN SCHNEIDER has appeared in opera, operetta, and music theatre productions with many companies in his native New England and elsewhere, including Odyssey Opera, Opera Boston, Sarasota Opera, OperaDelaware, Florida Grand Opera, The Huntington Theatre Company, Opera New England and Boston Bel Canto Opera. With Boston Lyric Opera, he has appeared in Katya Kabanova, The Flying Dutchman, La traviata, Lucie de Lammermoor (French version), Salome, Don Carlos, Carmen, La rondine and Rigoletto over the course of eight seasons with the company. Mr. Schneider made his international debut as Idomeneo with IVAI in Tel Aviv, Israel.
In addition to stage works, this versatile artist has given a number of recitals, in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Georgia, and St. Thomas, USVI. He has also appeared in concert with the Kalamazoo, Springfield (MA), Chautauqua and Omaha Symphonies, the Bellingham (WA) Festival of Music, Providence Singers, Albany Pro Musica, and the long-running Mohawk Trail Concerts in Charlemont, Massachusetts.
A proponent and frequent performer of new music, Mr. Schneider has created roles in world premieres of works by composers Eric Sawyer, Daniel Pinkham, Paula Kimper and others. Recordings of several of these works have been released on the Albany, Arsis, and BMOP/sound labels.
As a member of the Glimmerglass Opera Young American Artists Program, Mr. Schneider performed in Le nozze di Figaro and Chabrier’s L’Etoile. In addition, he performed roles in La rondine, Ariadne auf Naxos, and Street Scene with Chautauqua Opera, and was chosen by that company to receive a Shoshana Foundation Richard F. Gold Career Grant. He has also been the grateful recipient of career support grants from Boston Lyric Opera and the Wagner Society of New York.