The CoOPERAtive Program’s faculty artists have been among some of the most sought-after performers, teachers, directors, conductors, and artistic administrators in the operatic world today.
They have been regularly engaged at such opera companies as the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera, The Paris Opera, London’s Covent Garden, Milan’s La Scala, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Opera Philadelphia, Sarasota Opera, and Washington National Opera, among others.
Faculty 2025
- Susan Shiplett Ashbaker, Director
- Evan Mack, Composer
- Josh McGuire, Librettist
- Miriam Charney, Music Director
- Copeland Woodruff, Stage Director
- Nikolay Verevkin, Pianist
Past faculty and Master Class presenters have included:
- Rainier Armbrust
- Christopher Arneson
- Thomas Bagwell
- Ann Baltz
- Daniel Belcher
- Kathleen Belcher
- Sandra Bernhard
- Deborah Birnbaum
- Lydia Brown
- Ennio Brugnolo
- William Burden
- Jay Carter
- Audrey Chait
- Pei Wen Chen
- Amanda Consol
- Steven Crawford
- Margaret Cusak
- Kristin Ditlow
- Joan Dorneman
- Matthew Epstein
- Christopher Frisco
- Brent Funderburk
- Christine Goerke
- Robin Guarino
- William Hobbs
- Chuck Hudson
- Amy Hutchinson
- Ellen Jackson
- Warren Jones
- Martin Katz
- Kathleen Kelly
- Hemdi Kfir
- Yelena Kurdina
- Tesia Kwarteng
- Gina Lapinski
- Anthony Manoli
- Sean McCarther
- James Mitchell
- Matthew Owaza
- J.J. Penna
- Matthew Polenzani
- Laura Brooks Rice
- Craig Rutenberg
- Debra Scurto-Davis
- Ulrike Shapiro
- Stephanie Sundine
- Erika Switzer
- Nova Thomas
- Pierre Vallet
- Laura Ward
- Keith Wolfe
- Brian Zeger
- Bryan Hymel
- Tory Browers
- Irini Kyriakidou Hymel
- Mark Moliterno
- Debra Scurto-Davis
- Laetitia Ruccolo
- Anna Fré
- Michelle Eugene
- Cris Frisco
- Julia Hanna
- Jihye Park
- Johnathon Pape
- Darren Keith Woods
- Margaret Cusack
- Nikolay Verevkin
- Ute Mehnert