Curtain Call for Turandot (November 18, 2023 - Mechanic’s Hall, Worcester MA) Cailin Marcel Manson leads NERO/Clark University Chorale - Othalie Graham, Janinah Burnett, Joshua Collier, Nicholas Tocci, and others.
Nessun Dorma from Puccini’s Turandot (Live iPhone Recording - November 18, 2023 - Mechanics Hall, MA)
FULL CONCERT PERFORMANCE AVAILABLE HERE
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Nessun Dorma from Puccini’s “Turandot”
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American tenor, Joshua Collier, known for ”brimming with passion and sensuality” and having “delivered brilliant high notes as well as heart-wrenching tenderness” was hailed as “the quintessential Italianate tenor” and “the real thing” for a production of Puccini’s Tosca in 2024.
A graduate of The University of North Carolina School of the Arts (Bachelor in Music - Vocal Performance) and The New England Conservatory (Masters in Music - Vocal Performance), he has performed throughout New England and beyond in roles including: Calaf (Turandot - NERO/Clark), Rodolfo (La Boheme - Opera Ithaca), Nemorino (L’Elisir D’Amore - Opera Company of Middlebury), Mario Cavaradossi (Tosca - BARN OPERA) Chevalier de La Force (Dialogues of the Carmelites - Sarasota Opera), Calaf (Turandot - Opera Company of Middlebury), Macduff (Macbeth - Raylynmor Opera) B. F. Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly - BARN OPERA), Camille (The Merry Widow - Opera Wilmington), Tamino (Die Zauberflote - Opera New Hampshire), Tony (West Side Story - Asheville Lyric Opera), Lysander (A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Lowell House Opera), Male Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia - Opera Brittenica), Frederic (The Pirates of Penzance - Opera Providence), Fabrizio (The Light in the Piazza - Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre), among others.
In addition to the lyric stage, Mr. Collier has performed the tenor solos in much of the symphonic and oratorio repertoire including Requiem by both Verdi and Mozart, Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings (op.31), Les Illuminations de Rimbaud, Rejoice in the Lamb, Abraham and Isaac - All by Benjamin Britten, Elijah and Paulus of Mendelssohn, Handel’s Messiah, as well as Beethoven's 9th Symphony and the Coronation Mass of Mozart. He was the tenor soloist for the New England premiere of Robert Aldridge’s Parables: An Interfaith Oratorio with Bennington Choral Society.
Throughout his career he has been fortunate to work with such conductors as Cailin Marcel Manson, Nicolas Giusti, Stephen Lord, Lidiya Yankovskaya, John Moriarty, Emmanuel Plasson, James Albritten, Andy Anderson, and Michael Sakir, among others.
Mr. Collier founded the Bostonian opera company, Opera Brittenica, championing the works of Benjamin Britten, in 2013, and is currently a professor of Voice at both The University of Vermont, and Castleton campus of the Vermont State University, and is the founder and Artistic Director of BARN OPERA based in Brandon, Vermont.
*Full Performance Resume/Curriculum Vitae available upon request.
