SERIO Roles: Schaunard (La Boheme)

Bio

Joseph Breslau is a baritone equally passionate about opera, new music, and German Lieder performance. Joseph has sung the roles of Papageno from “Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte”, Aeneas from Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas”, Duncan from Ernest Bloch's “Macbeth”, Sid from Britten's “Albert Herring”, and Jupiter from Offenbach's “Orphée aux enfers”. Joseph performed as a soloist with the Case Western Reserve University Baroque Ensemble as well as the Bard Conservatory Baroque Ensemble in performances of music by Purcell, A. Gabrieli, L. de Sayve, and J. S. Bach. Joseph has premiered a multitude of new pieces by composers from the Cleveland Institute of Music and Bard College, including Arseny Gusev’s 5 Sunset Songs and Micro-Opera The Blind, Yoav Sadeh’s Loneliness: A monodrama for soloist and ensemble, and Noah Hertzman’s song Birches.