Alan Schneider, tenor

Tenor Alan Schneider has performed in opera, operetta, and music theatre productions with many companies in his native New England and elsewhere, including Florida Grand Opera, The Huntington Theatre Company, The North Shore Music Theatre, Opera New England, Boston Bel Canto Opera, and Commonwealth Opera. He has most often appeared with the Boston Lyric Opera, having performed roles in La Rondine, Carmen, Don Carlos, and Salome over the past three seasons. He returned for his fourth consecutive season as a principal artist there in November 2003, appearing in Rigoletto.

He is an alumnus of The University of Massachusetts at Amherst and received his Master’s Degree from Boston University where he appeared as Acis in Acis and Galatea, Reverend Pollard in Stephen Paulus’ The Village Singer, the Mayor in Albert Herring, Harlekin in Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, and Ferrando in Così fan tutte. Mr. Schneider recently finished the program at Boston University’s Opera Institute with the title role in Mozart’s Idomeneo, which was the subject of a feature article by Richard Dyer of The Boston Globe.