the Modus Opera Company

John Schenkel
Director

John Schenkel is a stage director/opera baritone who has worked in venues directing and singing across the United States and Germany. Directing credits: Samuel Beckett’s Not I for the Real Theater, NYC; Gertrude Stein: an Evening at 27 Rue de Fleurus for Hell’s Kitchen Opera; Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Donizetti’s Elisir d’Amore for Regina Opera; Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors, and the musicals The Fantasticks, Godspell, and Gypsy at the Affton Theater Company in St. Louis, Missouri; Menotti’s The Telephone and Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti as a double bill at the Rhein Main Lyrisches Stadtsoper in Frankfurt, Germany and the following plays and musicals at the Kaiserslautern Performing Arts Center: The Wiz, Side by Side by Sondheim, A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum, Something’s Afoot, Cinderella, The Lion that Roared, The Shadow Box, And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Vanities and an adaptation of James and the Giant Peach. As co-artistic director for Hell’s Kitchen Opera he produced The Dead and Emma by Murray Boren, Say it with Flowers and American Lit by Jeffrey Lependorf, and Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea. This past summer he collaborated with conductor Justin Bischof in directing Menotti’s The Medium and The Telephone as the premiere production for Golden Key Opera in Honolulu at the Hawaii Theatre – the first fully staged opera to be performed there since this landmark theater was renovated in 1996.

Recent operatic roles include Melchior in Chelsea Opera’s Amahl and the Night Visitors, Don Alfonso in Cosi fan Tutte with both Jade Opera and NYMVAE, Baron Zeta in The Merry Widow with New Rochelle Opera, William Jennings Bryan in The Ballad of Baby Doe for Silver Dollar Opera and several engagements at Regina Opera including Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Frank in Die Fledermaus, Koko in The Mikado, Sacristan in Tosca, Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro, Dancairo in Carmen, Schaunard in La Boheme and Marullo in Rigoletto. He portrayed Ben in The Telephone at the Barnes and Noble concert series, and has created the leading roles of Andre in The Art of Eating and Bill in If I Could Stand, If I Could Sit, or, Oh, Bill, Oh, Susan by Jeffrey Lependorf at both the Hudson Arts Walk Festival and for Downtown Music Productions concert series at St. Mark’s. At the Kaiserslautern Pfalztheater and Mannheim National Theater he sang the roles of Wozzeck, Figaro, Sam in Trouble in Tahiti, Sam in Gershwin’s Blue Monday and Mr. Peachum in The Threepenny Opera. With Hell’s Kitchen Opera he portrayed the King in Orff’s Die Kluge, and Mr. Peachum in Britten’s The Beggar’s Opera. As an oratorio and recital soloist he has appeared with the Cleveland Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, New York Choral Arts Society, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wiesbaden Symphony Orchestra, Bochum Symphony Orchestra and the Bronx Symphony Orchestra. He is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Manhattan School of Music.

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	John Schenkel Director John Schenkel is a stage director/opera baritone who has worked in venues directing and singing across the United States and Germany. Directing credits: Samuel Beckett’s Not I for the Real Theater, NYC; Gertrude Stein: an Evening at 27 Rue de Fleurus for Hell’s Kitchen Opera; Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Donizetti’s Elisir d’Amore for Regina Opera; Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors, and the musicals The Fantasticks, Godspell, and Gypsy at the Affton Theater Company in St. Louis, Missouri; Menotti’s The Telephone and Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti as a double bill at the Rhein Main Lyrisches Stadtsoper in Frankfurt, Germany and the following plays and musicals at the Kaiserslautern Performing Arts Center: The Wiz, Side by Side by Sondheim, A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum, Something’s Afoot, Cinderella, The Lion that Roared, The Shadow Box, And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Vanities and an adaptation of James and the Giant Peach. As co-artistic director for Hell’s Kitchen Opera he produced The Dead and Emma by Murray Boren, Say it with Flowers and American Lit by Jeffrey Lependorf, and Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea. This past summer he collaborated with conductor Justin Bischof in directing Menotti’s The Medium and The Telephone as the premiere production for Golden Key Opera in Honolulu at the Hawaii Theatre – the first fully staged opera to be performed there since this landmark theater was renovated in 1996. Recent operatic roles include Melchior in Chelsea Opera’s Amahl and the Night Visitors, Don Alfonso in Cosi fan Tutte with both Jade Opera and NYMVAE, Baron Zeta in The Merry Widow with New Rochelle Opera, William Jennings Bryan in The Ballad of Baby Doe for Silver Dollar Opera and several engagements at Regina Opera including Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Frank in Die Fledermaus, Koko in The Mikado, Sacristan in Tosca, Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro, Dancairo in Carmen, Schaunard in La Boheme and Marullo in Rigoletto. He portrayed Ben in The Telephone at the Barnes and Noble concert series, and has created the leading roles of Andre in The Art of Eating and Bill in If I Could Stand, If I Could Sit, or, Oh, Bill, Oh, Susan by Jeffrey Lependorf at both the Hudson Arts Walk Festival and for Downtown Music Productions concert series at St. Mark’s. At the Kaiserslautern Pfalztheater and Mannheim National Theater he sang the roles of Wozzeck, Figaro, Sam in Trouble in Tahiti, Sam in Gershwin’s Blue Monday and Mr. Peachum in The Threepenny Opera. With Hell’s Kitchen Opera he portrayed the King in Orff’s Die Kluge, and Mr. Peachum in Britten’s The Beggar’s Opera. As an oratorio and recital soloist he has appeared with the Cleveland Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, New York Choral Arts Society, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wiesbaden Symphony Orchestra, Bochum Symphony Orchestra and the Bronx Symphony Orchestra. He is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Manhattan School of Music.