Shrader, Alek

(Alva, Oklahoma)

2023–24 Season: Emilio, Partenope

San Francisco Opera Highlights: Victorin in Die Tote Stadt; Arbace in Idomeneo; Nemorino in L'Elisir d'Amore; Tamino in Die Zauberflöte; Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia; Emilio in Partenope; David in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Recent and Upcoming: Oronte in Alcina; Alfredo in La Traviata; Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia; Jupiter and Apollo in Semele; Tony in West Side Story; title role of Candide

Director of Dido & Aeneas (Green-wood Cemetery's "Concerts in the Catacombs"

Co-writer and co-director of Mercy film, based on La Clemenza di Tito (Curtis Institute of Music)

Graphic novel of Carmen (Arizona Opera)

Winner of Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (2007)

San Francisco Opera Adler Fellowship: 2008, 2009

Merola Opera Program: 2007