Guest Artist Bio
Charles R. Stephens
Charles Robert Stephens has enjoyed a career spanning a wide variety of roles and styles in opera and concert music. At the New York City Opera he sang the role of Professor Friedrich Bhaer in the New York premiere of Adamo’s Little Women and was hailed by the New York Times as a “baritone of smooth distinction.” Other New York City Opera roles since his debut as Marcello in 1995 include Frank in Die Tote Stadt, Sharpless in Madame Butterfly and Germont in La Traviata.
Now based in Seattle, he has sung with Seattle Symphony, Tacoma and Spokane symphony and opera companies, Portland Chamber Orchestra and many others in the Pacific Northwest. He joined the roster of Seattle Opera in 2010 for the premiere of Amelia by Daron Hagen.
A native of New London, CT, Stephens is the recipient of a Sullivan Grant and was a finalist in both the Washington International Competition and the Zachary Society Auditions. He received his training at the University of Connecticut, Boston University, the Goldovsky Opera Institute and the Santa Fe Opera.