Alan Schneider is a principal artist with the Boston Lyric Opera and has performed with some of the best-known companies in the Northeast, including the Huntington Theatre Company, Boston Opera, Chautauqua Opera and the Glimmerglass Opera Young American Artists Program. An advocate of New Music, he has created roles in world premieres of works by Joseph Summer, Daniel Pinkham and Paula Kimper. Schneider has appeared in a wide range of operas, including Salome, Don Carlos, Carmen and Rigoletto. A graduate of UMass-Amherst and Boston University, he completed the Boston University Opera Institute with the title role in Mozart's Idomeneo - the topic of a The Boston Globe feature story by music critic Richard Dyer. Schneider, who lives with his wife and son in Northampton, is also founder of The American Singers' Theater, which produces new American opera.
NORTHAMPTON - In opera, anything can happen as long as you sing about it.
In Eric Sawyer and John Shoptaw’s new opera Our American Cousin, the events immediately surrounding President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination were examined operatically through the eyes of the actors in the play the president came to Ford’s Theater to attend that fateful evening.
The opera premiered Friday evening at the Academy of Music Theater.