b'OPERAJonathan Lasch (Mr. Gedge)Jonathan Lasch has been described by critics as possessing a voice of arresting color and heft, a performer who is a master of the stage and a tour de force. Most recently, he performed as Sam in Leonard Bernsteins Trouble in Tahiti with Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, Hannah Before in As One with Aepex Contemporary Performance at Kerrytown Concert Hall. He is thrilled to return to the Princeton Festival as The Vicar in Benjamin Brittens Albert Herring. On the concert stage, Jonathan most recently sang the title role in Mendelssohns Elijah with Chorus America and the baritone soloist in Jocelyn Hagens amass with Eugene Rogers in Hill Auditorium. He also performed Schuberts Schwanengesang several times on concert stages across Michigan. Jonathan Lasch is assistant professor and coordinator of voice at Wayne State University in Detroit.Shawn Roth(Mr. Upfold)Winner of the 2021 Marilyn Horne Song Competition, Shawn Roth is an emerging tenor in opera. In November of 2019, he was named a winner in the Michigan District of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and went on to receive the Encouragement Award at the MONCA Great Lakes Region Finals in January 2020. In fall 2020, he joined the roster of resident artists at Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, where he studies with Bill Schuman. There, he has performed and prepared the roles of Lensky in Eugene Onegin, Wilhelm Meister in Mignon, and Rodolfo in La bohme. Shawn Roth maintains a private voice studio in his hometown of Johnstown, PA. Joshua Stewart(Albert Herring)Born in New Orleans, Joshua Stewart attended New Orleans Centre for Creative Arts (NOCCA) following which he graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and joined Munichs Bavarian State Opera Studio. Based in Europe, the artist recently sang with celebrated conductor Mirga Grainyt-Tyla and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra on tour in the UK, to Paris, and in Germany as tenor soloist in Tippetts A Child of our Time. He appeared in the roles of Zinovy in Lady Macbeth of Mstensk and Lazarus in the world premiere of Giorgio Battistellis Wake, both at Birmingham Opera Company (UK) directed by Graham Vick, Trin in La Fanciulla del West at Hamburg State Opera, and Antenore in Zelmira and Giove in Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo at Rossini in Wildbad, Germany among others. The artist appeared as The Shepherd in Oedipus Rex in performances staged by Peter Sellars under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm, at Festival Aix en Provence, and at Londons Royal Festival Hall. In the US, Joshua appeared with Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in Das Paradies und die Peri under the baton of Paolo Bortolameolli and sang the title role in Charlie Parkers Yardbird at Madison Opera, Atlanta Opera, Arizona Opera, and at Seattle Opera. Recent roles this season include Rodolfo in La Boheme in concert for Columbus Symphony, Son in Blue at Seattle Opera in the highly lauded production by Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson, and the role of Benny Paret in Champion at Boston Lyric Opera. Future engagements include Valcour Lamant anonyme at TheaterSt Gallen, Switzerland. princetonsymphony.org/festival The Princeton Festival 29'