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Dr. Todd Queen

Director of Opera, Voice

(970) 491-3272 | Todd.Queen@colostate.edu

Voice faculty Dr. Todd Queen Directs Opera in Rome.
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Todd Queen leads an active and diverse musical career that includes opera directing, guest recitals and master classes, and performing as a soloist with national and regional opera companies, orchestras, choruses, and concert series. He recently returned from Italy, where he sang in recital and gave a master class at Orvieto Musica, followed by a three-week opera workshop with Operafestival di Roma. His operatic roles include Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, Don Basilio in Le Nozze di Figaro, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, the title role Candide, Fenton in Falstaff, Steuermann in Der fliegende Holländer , Male Chorus in Rape of Lucretia, Borsa in Rigoletto, El Remendado in Carmen, and St. Brioche in Merry Widow. He has sung with Sacramento Opera, Operafestival di Roma, Opera Fort Collins, Fargo-Moorhead Opera, Lyric Artists of the West, Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra, the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.

Recent orchestral engagements include the tenor soloist in Carmina Burana with Cheyenne Symphony and tenor soloist in Messiah with Colorado Repertory Singers. His oratorio roles include Lucas in Haydn’s The Seasons, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, the Evangelist in Bach’s St. John Passion, Uriel in Haydn’s Creation, Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven Symphony #9, and Bach’s Magnificat. He has been a guest soloist with The Larimer Chorale, Colorado Repertory Singers, Utah Valley Chorus and Orchestra, Southwest Symphony and Chorus, Alpine Chorale, Longmont Symphony and Chorale, Cheyenne Symphony, Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra, and the Rochester Oratorio Society.

Todd Queen is Associate Professor of Voice and Director of Opera at Colorado State University and Artistic Director of Opera Fort Collins. In summer 2009 he will serve as Founder and Artistic Director of Opera in Orvieto, an intensive three-week summer program that focuses on a complete Italian musical experience. The festival will feature daily Italian language and musical coachings, and will culminate in a fully staged production of Cosi fan tutte with orchestra. He has directed numerous operas, including Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, Don Giovanni, and Le Nozze di Figaro, a double bill of Cavellaria Rusticana and Pagliacci, Verdi’s Falstaff, Lehár’s The Merry Widow, Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, Copland’s The Tender Land, Britten’s Albert Herring, and Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado and Pirates of Penzance. He previously taught at North Dakota State University, Alfred University, and Syracuse University. Dr. Queen earned the DMA and MM degrees from the prestigious Eastman School of Music after completing his undergraduate degree at Brigham Young University in Utah. He is an active member of College Music Society and the National Association of Teachers of Singing, where he was selected as one of 12 outstanding young voice teachers selected from Canada and the US to participate in the NATS Summer Intern Program.

View Todd Queen's website at www.toddqueen.com.