Larry Glenn
Associate Professor, MM
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Biography

Larry Glenn, Lyric Tenor, Associate Professor of Voice Lamont School of Music University of Denver.

Professor Glenn is a graduate of The Juilliard School. He has performed throughout the United States as soloist with such companies as the New York City Opera Theater, Connecticut Opera, Georgia Opera Theater, Bel Canto Opera, New York Lyric Opera, Mobile Opera and The National Opera. He has sung over leading roles in over sixty operas including Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Cenerentola, Die Zauberflöte, Mignon, Così Fan Tutte, Faust, L'Elisir d'Amore, Albert Herring, La Traviata, Die Fledermaus, The Merry Widow, Khovanshchina, Il Giuramento, La Fille du Regiment, A Midsummer's Dream,The Merry Wives of Windsor, and the American premieres of Gounod's Philemon et Baucis and Fioravanti's Le Cantatrici Villane. Mr. Glenn has been a featured soloist with the American Symphony Orchestra, Eve Queller's Opera Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall, Westchester Symphony Orchestra, Schenectady Symphony Orchestra, Virginia Pop's Orchestra and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra.

His oratorio credits include Orff's Carmina Burana, and Handel's Joshua with the Oratorio Society of New York at Carnegie Hall, Haydn's Creation at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, Handel's Isreal in Egypt, The Messiah, Acis and Galatea, Bruckner's Te Deum, Honneger's Le Roi David, Mozart's Requiem, Rossini's Stabat Mater, Beethoven's Christ On The Mount Of Olives, Bach's Magnificat, St. John and St. Matthew Passions. He has sung the role of the Dying Swan in Carmina Burana with the Denver Symphony. Mr. Glenn was soloist with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and was a featured soloist in a program of Aaron Copeland songs for the composer, in celebration of his 80 th Birthday with the Westchester Symphony Orchestra. Also Mr. Glenn sang the lead role of Count Almaviva for Il Barbiere di Siviglia with the International Gubbio Festival in Italy. His International credits also include Handel's The Messiah with the Oratorio Society of NY in Prague , Czech Republic with the Prague Symphony Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Glenn has sung the operatic lead roles for the Rome Festival which include Nemorino for L'Elisir d'Amore, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte and the Witch in Hänsel und Gretel.

Mr. Glenn has been a Stage Director for such operas as Moore 's Gallantry, Blow's Venus and Adonis, Holst's Savitri, Paulus' The Village Singer, Menotti's Help, Help The Globolinks, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Puccini's Suor Angelica, Barber's Hand of Bridge, Pasatieri's La Divina & The Women, V. Williams' Riders To The Sea, and Weill's Songspiel. For the Rome Festival in Italy he has directed Hänsel und Gretel, Don Giovanni, L'Elisir d'Amore, Le Nozze di Figaro, Die Fledermaus, and Così Fan Tutte.

Mr. Glenn recently directed Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers and Pucini's Gianni Schicchi for the Lamont Opera Theatre, Berstein's Trouble in Tahiti, Ralph Vaughn Williams' Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains and the two world premiers of Jonathan Schwabe's The Sojourner, and Kevin McMahon's Marilyn Monroe for the Maud Powell Festival near Chicago. He has also recently directed Don Giovanni, L'Elisir d,Amore, Carmen and Le Nozze di Figaro for the Rome Festival Opera in Rome, Italy. He will return for the Maud Powel Festival 2007 Season to sing the leading role of the Toy Shop Keeper for yet another world premiere opera – Jonathan Schwabe's The Big Toy Shop Ghost. 

As of February 2007

Short Version

Larry Glenn, tenor, is a graduate of the Julliard School. Mr. Glenn has performed throughout the U.S. as a soloist with companies such as the New York City Opera Theatre, Atlanta Opera, New York Lyric Opera, Mobile Opera, and National Opera. He has sung leading roles in II Barbiere di Siviglia, La Cenerentola, Faust, L'Elisir d'Amore, La Traviata, and many others. Mr. Glenn has been the featured soloist with the American Symphony Orchestra, as well as soloist with the Westchester Symphony Orchestra for the 80th birthday celebration of Aaron Copland. He also performed at the 1992 International Gubbio Festival in Italy, and the 1994 Opera Institute of Rome Festival, where he returned in 1996 to play Tamino in Die Zauberflöte. He also appeared as a guest artist for the Oratorio Society of New York in performances of Handel's Messiah in Czechoslovakia with the Prague Symphony Chamber Orchestra.