Maxwell Levy, tenor AEA, AGMA www.levymaxwell.com Miguel Rodriguez, Artist Manager [email protected] Athlone Artists, [email protected] Roles Role Opera Conductor Director Company Year Lysander (upcoming) A Midsummer Night’s Dream Sian Edwards Christopher Luscombe Royal Academy Opera 2020 Krupke (upcoming) West Side Story Donato Renzetti Francesca Zambello Teatro Lirico di Cagliari TBD* Shrank (cover) West Side Story Donato Renzetti Francesca Zambello Teatro Lirico di Cagliari TBD* Don José (upcoming) Carmen --- Jane Gray Opera Loki TBD* Ricardo Chérubin Anthony Legge James Hurley Royal Academy Opera 2020 Ghost Quartet The Ghosts of Versailles Joseph Colaneri Eric Sean Fogel Opéra Royal du Versailles 2019 Tamino Die Zauberflöte Gareth Hancock Andrew Sinclair Royal Academy Opera 2019 Hermann The Queen of Spades Michelle Rofrano Francesca Zambello The Glimmerglass Festival 2019 Emcee/Ensemble Show Boat James Lowe Francesca Zambello The Glimmerglass Festival 2019 Ghost Quartet The Ghosts of Versailles Joseph Colaneri Jay Lesenger The Glimmerglass Festival 2019 William Dale Silent Night Nicole Paiement Tomer Zvulun The Glimmerglass Festival 2018 Horstmayer (cover) Silent Night Nicole Paiement Tomer Zvulun The Glimmerglass Festival 2018 Ufficiale The Barber of Seville Joseph Colaneri Francesca Zambello The Glimmerglass Festival 2018 Bartolo (cover) The Barber of Seville Joseph Colaneri Francesca Zambello The Glimmerglass Festival 2018 Officer Krupke West Side Story David Charles Abell Francesca Zambello The Glimmerglass Festival 2018 Gypsy/Chorus Carmen Yves Abell Paul Curran Opera Philadelphia 2018 Scenes *due to COVID-19 postponements Role Opera/Scene Conductor Director Program Year Lensky Eugene Onegin (Quartet & Arioso) Natalie Murray Beale Noa Naamat Royal Academy of Music 2020 Nemorino L’elisir d’amore (Venti scudi) Howard Watkins Marcus Shields The Juilliard School 2019 Enrico Lucia di Lammermoor (Chi mi frena) Timothy Muffit John Giampietro Chautauqua Institution 2017 Concert/Recital Soloist New York Song – Wednesdays at One Adam Nielsen Alice Tully Hall—Lincoln Center 2019 Cabaret Songs—Bolcom Cameron Stowe Paul Hall—The Juilliard School 2018 Kurt Weill the Immigrant Mikael Eliasen Chautauqua Institution 2017 Britten in Concert Craig Rutenberg Chautauqua Institution 2017 Education School Program Degree Result Year(s) Royal Academy of Music Royal Academy Opera Advanced Diploma Candidate 2019-2021 The Juilliard School Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts Master of Music No degree conferred 2018-2019 University of Pennsylvania Philosophy, Politics and Economics Bachelor of Arts Degree conferred 2014-2018 Training Company/Program Course/Position Program Direcotor(s) Location Year(s) Georg Solti Accademia Bel Canto Summer School Jonathan Papp/Richard Bonynge Tuscany, Italy 2020 The Glimmerlgass Festival Young Artist Program Allen Perriello/Amra Catovic Cooperstown, NY 2018/19 Chautauqua Institution School of Music Voice Program Marlena Malas/Mikael Eliasen Chautauqua, NY 2017 Voice Teachers Vocal Coaches (contd.) (contd.) Dramatic Coaches Mark Wildman Steven Blier Kenneth Merrill Michael Pollock Edward Berkeley Marlena Malas Bénédicte Jourdois Adam Nielsen Diane Richardson John Giampietro Neil Shicoff Natalia Katyukova Donald Palumbo Ingrid Surgenor David Hibbard Kirill Kuzmin Jonathan Papp Howard Watkins Eve Shapiro Classical Media Package Tenor Maxwell Levy is an interpreter of opera, concert, recital and musical theater repertoire. He is a member of Actors Equity Association (Equity) and the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA). In the Spring 2020 season Maxwell was meant to reprise his role as Officer Krupke in West Side Story at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari in Sardinia, Italy. The performances have been postponed to a date to be determined due to COVID-19. The production will be directed by Francesca Zambello and conducted by Donato Renzetti. He will also be covering the role of Lieutenant Schrank. In June / July of 2020 Maxwell was slated to join the prestigious Georg Solti Accademia in Castiglione della Pescaia, Italy, lead by Richard Bonynge and Jonathan Papp. This has been postponed to June/July of 2021 due to COVID-19. In the remainder of the Summer and Fall 2020 seasons, Maxwell was meant to be making his role debut as Don José in Opera Loki’s production of Carmen, directed by Jane Gray. This has been postponed to the Fall 2021 season due to COVID-19. The production will tour multiple cities throughout France and the United Kingdom. He will also perform the role of Lysander in Britten’s A Midummer Night’s Dream with Royal Academy Opera, directed by Christopher Luscombe and conducted by Sian Edwards. In the 2019/2020 season Maxwell is proud to be joining the Royal Academy Opera Studio at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In November 2019, Maxwell will perform the role of Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the Susie Sainsbury Theater at the Academy, conducted by program director Gareth Hancock and directed by Andrew Sinclair. In March 2020 Maxwell will perform the role of Ricardo in Massenet’s Chérubin conducted by Anthony Legge, directed by James Hurley. In December of 2019 Maxwell performed the role of the Opera Box Ghost in Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles at The Royal Opera at The Château de Versailles. This will be a revival of The Glimmerglass Festival’s 2019 production, directed by Jay Lesenger, choreographed by Eric Sean Fogel and conducted by Joseph Colaneri. In the Summer 2019 season, Maxwell returned to The Glimmerglass Festival, performing the role of Hermann in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades across acclaimed Soprano Patricia Schuman as the Countess. The production was directed by Francesca Zambello and conducted by Michelle Rofrano. About Maxwell’s performance, Opera News wrote, “Mr. Levy is that rare, somewhat dark voiced tenor who not only has the stentorian delivery needed to fill any hall, but also the ability to scale it back with gorgeous results, as he imbues his vocalization with immense heart and feeling…I can predict you will hear much much more of tenor Maxwell Levy.” Maxwell will perform the role of the Ghost Quartet in John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles, directed by Jay Lesenger and conducted by Joseph Colaneri. He will also be performing the role of the Emcee/Ensemble in Kern and Hammerstein’s Show Boat directed by Francesca Zambello and E. Loren Meeker and conducted by James Lowe. The season runs from July 6th to August 24th in Cooperstown, NY. In the 2018/2019 season, Maxwell continued his performance studies at The Juilliard School, pursuing a Masters of Music in Vocal Arts under the tutelage of faculty teacher Marlena Malas. Performances at Juilliard included Maxwell’s Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall debut, performing a set of New York-themed musical theater and art songs as part of the Wednesdays at One series. He performed Bill Bolcom’s Cabaret Songs as part of Juilliard’s Liederabend series at Paul Hall, under the direction of Cameron Stowe. In the 2018 summer season, Maxwell was seen in 37 performances on the Alice Busch Opera Theatre stage as a member of the Young Artist Program at The Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, NY. At Glimmerglass, he performed the role of William Dale, while covering the role of Lt. Horstmayer, in Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2011 opera Silent Night, which earned significant acclaim. The production was conducted by Nicole Paiement and directed by Tomer Zvulun. Said Richard Sasanow of ‘Broadway World,’ “it blew me away.” He performed the role of the Ufficiale (Officer), while covering the role of Bartolo, in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, directed by Festival General and Artistic Director Francesca Zambello and conducted by Festival Music Director Joseph Colaneri. Topping off the Glimmerglass season, Maxwell performed the role of Officer Krupke in the triumphant West Side Story, also directed by Francesca Zambello and conducted by David Charles Abell. In the 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 seasons, Maxwell was a member of the chorus roster at Opera Philadelphia, performing chorus in the company’s productions of Turandot (2016), Tancredi (2017) and The Magic Flute (2017). In the spring of 2018, he made his Opera Philadelphia solo debut as the Gypsy in Bizet’s Carmen directed by Paul Curran and conducted by Yves Abell. While in Philadelphia, he was a member of the Philadelphia Symphonic Chorus and the Philadelphia Singers, performing with The Philadelphia Orchestra in The Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall and The Mann Center. In the summer of 2017, Maxwell performed as part of the Chautauqua Institution School of Music Voice Program under the direction of Marlena Malas. At Chautauqua, he performed recitals led by Craig Rutenberg, Mikael Eliasen and Don St. Pierre. He performed the roles of Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte and Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier in the scenes program in the Chautauqua Amphitheater. From 2014 to 2017, Maxwell was a member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus of the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops Orchestras, under the choral direction of John Oliver. He performed a range of concerts from three seasons of Holiday Pops at Symphony Hall to a semi-staged Candide in the Koussevitsky Music Shed at Tanglewood, under conductors including Andris Nelsons, Keith Lockhart and Bramwell Tovey. Maxwell completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania where he received a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics with a concentration in Public