Vernon Hartman bio

Vernon Hartman maintains a diverse career spanning forty-five years as a performer, director, educator, producer and administrator. As a singer, he was a leading baritone at the Metropolitan Opera for two decades, and has sung with virtually all of North America’s major opera companies, orchestras and festivals, mixed with frequent international appearances. He has produced and directed for over thirty opera companies, universities, symphony orchestras, presenter houses and festivals worldwide. Recent activities include a return to Cincinnati Opera in 2016 after a twenty-one year absence, singing the role of Senator Charles Potter in the world première of Fellow Travelers. He also directed the world première of Eric Sawyer’s opera The Garden of Martyrs at the Academy of Music in Northampton, MA (a co-production with the Springfield Symphony), additionally singing the role of James Sullivan, and his new adaptation of Carlo Goldoni’s play The Servant of Two Masters was performed at Smith College under his direction.

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