Company Profiles

Jason Allen

Resident Wig/Makeup Designer and Supervisor Central City Opera: Wig and Makeup Co-Designer/Supervisor, 2011 Recently: Wig and Makeup Designer, Waitress and Straight White Men, Broadway; Primetime Emmy-nominated Makeup Artist

John Baril

Central City Opera Music Director Conductor: Rigoletto Central City Opera: (Partial Listing) Billy Budd, 2019; Encore: A Musical Revue, 2019 and 2018; Il trovatore, 2018; Così fan tutte, 2017 Recently: Die Fledermaus, Northwestern University; Les pêcheurs de perles, Toledo Opera; Il barbiere di Siviglia and Roméo et Juliette, Virginia Opera

Ken Cazan

Director: Carousel Central City Opera: (Partial Listing) Billy Budd, 2019; Acis and Galatea and The Face on the Barroom Floor, 2018 Recently: Professor of Opera/Resident Stage Director, USC Thornton School of Music; Director/Co-librettist, Frau Schindler (World Premiere), Gärtnerplatz Theatre, Munich; Director, As One (World Premiere), American Opera Projects and Brooklyn Academy of Music

Judeth Shay Comstock

Actor: Mrs. Mullin, Carousel Central City Opera: (Partial Listing) Bronwen, How Green Was My Valley (World Premiere), 2014; Papagena, The Magic Flute with Colorado Symphony, 2002 Recently: Virginia, Hands on a Hardbody, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Mother, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Chamber Orchestra of the Springs; Muriel, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

Jennifer DeDominici

Mezzo-Soprano: Carrie Pipperidge, Carousel Central City Opera: (Partial Listing) Soloist, CCO Al Fresco, 2020; Encore: A Musical Revue, 2019 and 2018 Recently: Soloist, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Denver Philharmonic Orchestra; Francesca, (Henry Award, Outstanding Actress), The Bridges of Madison County, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Guenevere, Camelot, Intermountain Opera Bozeman Michael Baitzer

Director/Administrator, Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program Central City Opera: Principal Coach, 2021-2012; Music Staff 2004-1999 Recently: Head of Music Staff, Washington National Opera; Faculty, University of Maryland

Aleksey Bogdanov°

Baritone: Rigoletto, Rigoletto Recently: Scarpia, Tosca, Austin Opera; Crespel, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Gran Teatre del Liceu; Sharpless, Madama Butterfly, Tulsa Opera

Anna Christy

Soprano: Julie Jordan, Carousel Central City Opera: (Partial Listing) Soprano Soloist, Mozart Requiem with Denver Philharmonic, 2019; Baby Doe, The Ballad of Baby Doe, 2016; Susanna, Le nozze di Figaro, 2014; Emily Webb, Our Town, 2013 Recently: Soloist, The East Land Symphony, Carnegie Hall (U.S. Premiere); Soloist, Messiah, Colorado Symphony; Fire/Princess/Nightingale, L'enfant et les sortilèges, Philadelphia Orchestra

Jose Maria Condemi

Director: Rigoletto Central City Opera: Carmen, 2017 Recently: Die Fledermaus, San Francisco Conservatory of Music; Joan of Arc, New Orleans Opera; Frida, Atlanta Opera

Jason Ducat°

Sound Designer: Carousel and Rigoletto Recently: Sound Designer, The Pavilion, Aurora Fox Arts Center; Company Sound Designer, Denver Center for the Performing Arts; Resident Sound Designer, Colorado Shakespeare Festival

Brandon M. Eldredge°

Conductor: Dido and Aeneas Associate Conductor/Chorus Master: Carousel and Rigoletto Recently: Assistant Conductor and Chorus Master, Trouble in Tahiti, Aida, La cenerentola, Il Postino and Tosca, Virginia Opera; Conductor, Mozart and Salieri, Opera Saratoga

Edina Hiser°

Costume Designer: Carousel and Rigoletto Recently: Associate Costume Designer, FOUND: A New Musical, IAMA Theatre Company; Costume Designer, A Midsummer Night's Dream, USC Thornton School of Music; Costume Designer, 3 Paderewskis, Kosciuszko Foundation

David Martin Jacques

Resident Lighting Designer Set Designer: Carousel Central City Opera: Resident Lighting Designer, 2021-2007 and 2005-1999 Recently: Lighting Designer, My Fair Lady, Teatro Massimo Palermo and Teatro di San Carlo; The Flying Dutchman, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Moby Dick, Chicago Opera Theater

Steven C. Kemp°

Set Designer: Rigoletto Recently: Set Designer, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Lyric Opera of Kansas City; Three Decembers, Opera San Jose; La Wally, Sarasota Opera

Dan Wallace Miller

Director: Dido and Aeneas Assistant Director: Carousel Central City Opera: Assistant Director, Billy Budd and Director, Short Works, 2019 Recently: Film Director, Tosca, Seattle Opera; Director, Carmen, Kentucky Opera; Director, Orpheus and Eurydice, Inland Northwest Opera Will Ferguson

Tenor: Enoch Snow, Carousel Central City Opera: George Gibbs, Our Town, 2013 Recently: Titorelli/Flogger/Student, Der Prozess, Salzburger Landestheater; Snout, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Teatro Massimo di Palermo; Candide, Candide, South Dakota Symphony Orchestra

John Paul Huckle

Bass: Jigger Craigin, Carousel and Sparafucile, Rigoletto Central City Opera: Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Studio Artist, 2006 Recently: Samuel, Un ballo in maschera, Opera di Genova; Quinault, Adriana Lecouvreur, Opera di Genova; König Marke, Tristan und Isolde, Claude Heater Foundation at the Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music

Alisa Jordheim

Soprano: Gilda, Rigoletto Central City Opera: Flora, The Turn of the Screw, 2012; Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Apprentice Artist, 2012; Studio Artist, 2010 and 2009 Recently: Gilda, Rigoletto, San Diego Opera; Ninetta, La gazza ladra, Teatro Nuovo; Cunegonde, Candide, Palm Beach Opera

Steven LaBrie°

Baritone: Billy Bigelow, Carousel Recently: Valdeburgo, La straniera, Teatro Nuovo; Charlie, Three Decembers, San Diego Opera; Riolobo, Florencia en el Amazonas, Florida Grand Opera

Phyllis Pancella

Mezzo-Soprano: Nettie Fowler, Carousel Central City Opera: Mrs. Gibbs, Our Town, 2013; Rinaldo, Rinaldo, 2009; Lucretia, The Rape of Lucretia, 2008; Nerone, L'incoronazione di Poppea, 2006 Recently: Professor of Voice, University of North Carolina School of the Arts; Principessa/Zita, Suor Angelica/Gianni Schicchi, Opera Memphis; Mother, Thumbprint, LA Opera

° Indicates a Central City Opera Debut  Indicates a Past Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artist