Artists 2023-2024
COUNTERTENOR
Mr. Minter sings Bach's Widerstehe der Sünde
Available upon request (MSprizzo@aol.com) is Mr. Minter's recital recording Love Letters from Italy.
Drew appears as Tolomeo in the London video of the Peter Sellars production of Handel’s Giulio Cesare. Other film performances include the role of the Devil in “In the Symphony of the World: A Portrait of Hildegard von Bingen” and the roles of the Queen and the Angel in “The Play of Daniel” for West German Television.
Drew directs and teaches interpretation and acting at several opera institutes in the summers: La Lingua della Lirica, Queens College Baroque Opera workshop, Amherst Early Music Baroque Institute. Drew has also directed for a number of colleges and universities.
DREW MINTER, countertenor, stage director
PRINCIPAL OPERA ENGAGEMENTS
(“direction “refers in all cases to being the stage director) some of the conductors collaborated with on the operas below:
Nicholas McGegan, Gary Wedow, Andrew Lawrence King, Craig Smith, Jane Glover, Susan Davenny Wyner
Boston Midsummer Opera (ARTISTIC DIRECTOR) 2006, The Marriages of Mozart (also translator)
(stage director in all cases) 2007, Tales of Offenbach (a pastiche of La Périchole, The Tales of Hoffmann, and Les Brigands)
2008, La Tregédie de Carmen by Peter Brook, based on the Bizet opera
2009, Così fan tutte (also translator)
2011, The Italian Girl in Algiers
The Cloisters Museum 2009, The Play of Daniel (direction)
2013, The Play of Daniel (direction)
Goettingen Handel Festival 2011, Teseo (role: Egeo)
1998, Tolomeo (direction)
1997, Xerxes (direction)
1995, Ariodante (direction)
1994, Giustino (Amanzio, and stage direction)
1993, Radamisto (direction)
1992, Ottone (title role)
1991, Agrippina (role of Ottone)
1990, Floridante (title role)
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra 2013, Teseo by Handel (Egeo)
Orchestra London 2010, Giulio Cesare (title role)
Symphony Space – Vassar Faculty Opera 2011, Aethelred the Unready by Wilson (direction)
Tanglewood, Ravinia, Marlboro Festival 2007, Chansons de Bilitis, (stage director and performer) with Lorraine Hunt and Peter Serkin
Handel and Haydn Society (Boston) 1998, Giulio Cesare by Handel (Tolomeo, and stage direction)
Music of the Baroque (Chicago) 1997, La Calisto by Cavalli (Endimione)
Orchestra of St. Luke’s 1997, Lo Speziale by Haydn (direction)
Glimmerglass Opera 1996, La Calisto by Cavalli (Endimione),
Director: SIMON CALLOW 1996, L’Incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi (Ottone)
Director: JONATHAN MILLER
Lake George Opera 2001, Il Re Pastore by Mozart (direction)
Opera Aperta 2002, Don Giovanni by Mozart (direction and translation)
2001, The Barber of Seville by Rossini (direction)
2000, Cosi fan tutte by Mozart (direction & translation)
Boston Early Music Festival 2003, Ariadne by Conradi (direction and supertitle translation)
1985, Teseo by Handel (Arsace)
Director: NIC MCGEGAN
American Symphony Orchestra 2004, Der Nusch-Nuschi by Hindeminth (Süsülü)
2001, Aethelred the Unready by Wilson (Clio the Muse) (both operas in concert staging)
Tempesta di Mare 2005, Clori, Tirsi e Fileno, (Fileno, and stage direction)
Apollo’s Fire 2002, La Serva Padrona by Pergolesi (direction)
Folger Consort 1997, Ordo Virtutum by Hildegard von Bingen (The Devil, and
Stage direction 1995, Dido and Aeneas by Purcell (Court Singer, and direction)
Amherst Early Music Festival 2004, Almira by Handel (direction)
2005, Dido and Aeneas by Purcell (direction)
2006, L’Europe Galante by Campra (direction)
2007, La Calisto by Cavalli (direction)
2008, Die Schöne und getreue Ariadne by Conradi (direction)
2009, Dioclesian by Purcell (direction)
2011 La Principessa Fedele by A. Scarlatti (direction)
2012, Der geduldige Socrates by Telemann (direction)
2013, The Fairy Queen by Purcell (direction)
Berkshire Opera 1997, Semele by Handel (Athamas)
Opéra de Marseilles 1996, Radamisto by Handel (direction)
Caramoor 1995, L’Italiana in Algieri by Rossini (direction)
Opéra de Toulouse/Opéra de Nice 1995, Poro by Handel (title role)
Direction: ERIC VEGIER
Santa Rosa Summer Festival 1995, The Fairy Queen by Purcell (Mopsa, Night, and direction)
Badisches Stadtstheater, Karlsruhe 1994-1995, Tamerlano by Handel (title role)
Director: JEAN LOUIS MARTINOTY
Mabou Mines Theatre Company 1990, Suenos by Garfein (Papal Nunzio)
Director: RUTH MALACZEK
Théatre des Amandiers (Paris)/Opera Company of Boston/ 1987, 1989, 1990, Giulio Cesare by Handel (Tolomeo)
Théatre de la Monnaie, Brussels
Director: PETER SELLARS
Santa Fe Opera 1989, A Night at the Chinese Opera (Military Governor)
Director: ROBERT CARSEN
1989, La Calisto by Cavalli (Endimione)
Director: JOHN COX
Opera Omaha 1988, Partenope by Handel (Arsace)
Director: STEPHEN WADSWORTH
Skylight Opera (Milwaukee) 1988 THE MONTEVERDI TRILOGY:
L’Incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi (Ottone)
Orfeo by Monteverdi (Pastore, Speranza)
Il Ritorno di Ulisse by Monteverdi (Anfinomo)
Director of all three: STEPHEN WADSWORTH
1988, L’Orontea by Cesti (Arsace)
Director: FRANCESCA ZAMBELLO
Wolf Trap Opera 1987, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Britten (Oberon)
Director: LEON MAJOR
Concert Royal 1984, Orfeo by Gluck (title role)
Director: CATHERINE TUROCY
1985, 1984, 1983 Il Pastor Fido (Apollo, Silvio)
Director: CATHERINE TUROCY
Edison Theatre, St. Louis 1983, Orlando by Handel (title role)
Director: NIC MCGEGAN
The Washington Opera 1980, Semele by Handel (Athamas)
Director: JOHN COPLEY