Our Team
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Lena Goldstein
Executive Director, Co-founder
Intentional and intuitive in her artistry, Lena Goldstein is an American soprano who aspires to push the needle in classical music through entrepreneurial initiatives that put artists in the driver’s seats of their careers. She is currently pursuing her M.Mus at the San Francisco Conservatory as the recipient of the Samual Clark Scholarship, and recently graduated cum laude from Yale University with a B.A. in molecular biology. Lena’s recent appearances include with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Opera Department and New Music Ensemble, Chicago Summer Opera, Songfest, Opera Theatre of Yale, Yale Baroque Opera, Yale Symphony Orchestra, and Yale Undergraduate Chamber Orchestra. She is a versatile performer of opera with recent roles including The Governess (The Turn of the Screw), La Fée (Cendrillon), Eurinda (Doriclea), Maurya (Riders to the Sea), Maggie (The Gift of the Magi), Serpina (La serva padrona), and Lady Angela (Patience). Her concert performances include Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, Mozart’s Requiem, Ravel’s Trois poèmes de Mallarmé, Muhly’s The Beauty of the Day, and premieres of Carlson’s The Disguise and Beckman’s Hartley Songs. As an artistic administrator, Lena directed SFCM’s Hot Air Music Festival, works for the institution’s Department of Professional Development, and directed the Opera Theatre of Yale. She is interested in the intersection of visual arts and music, and was previously a tour guide at the Yale Center for British Art and intern for the Park City Arts Council. www.lenagoldstein.com
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Benjamin Beckman
Artistic Director, Co-founder
Benjamin Beckman is a composer, conductor, and pianist based in Los Angeles. Compositional career highlights include performances on the BBC Proms and Tanglewood Music Festival and by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, and Yale Symphony Orchestra. His 70-minute chamber opera Passage won the Beekman Cannon Friends Prize for the best-submitted thesis in the music major at Yale, from which he recently matriculated. As a pianist, assistant conductor, and vocal coach, Beckman has worked for the Sarasota Opera, Pacific Opera Project, Opera Company of Middlebury, Chicago Summer Opera, and Classic Lyric Arts France and Italy. While a student at Yale, Beckman was the Artistic Director of both the Opera Theater of Yale College and the Yale Undergraduate Chamber Orchestra, through which he facilitated the premieres of 21 student compositions. This fall, Beckman will pursue graduate studies in composition at the USC Thornton School of Music, where he will manage the conservatory’s new music ensemble, the Thornton Edge. www.benjaminbeckmanmusic.com
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Lisl Wangermann
Development Director, Co-founder
Winner of the 2021 Louis Sudler Prize in the Performing and Creative Arts from Yale University and recipient of a 2020 Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Lisl Wangermann is a soprano who has performed with the CIM Opera Theater, Opera Western Reserve, the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Opera Theatre of Yale College, and the Yale Baroque Opera Project. From baroque to modern opera, Lisl has portrayed a variety of roles, including Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus), Alcina (Alcina), Blanche (Dialogues des Carmélites), Cendrillon (Cendrillon), Della (The Gift of the Magi), Madeline (La chute de la maison Usher), and more. Lisl has also proven herself as an effective arts administrator, serving as the Managing Director for the Opera Theatre of Yale College (OTYC) in 2019. During her tenure, OTYC expanded its season from two shows to four and doubled the number of singers involved in each season. After graduating from Yale in 2021, Lisl moved to Cleveland to pursue her master’s in voice at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She served as the Residence Director at CIM for the 2021-2022 school year and joined the team of the baroque ensemble Apollo’s Fire as Development Assistant. Lisl earned her master’s degree in 2023 and is currently continuing her vocal studies at CIM as an Artist’s Diploma candidate. www.lislwangermannsoprano.com
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Stephanie Chee
Guest Artist, Summer 2024
Originally from Sunnyvale, CA, soprano Stephanie Chee received her Master of Music degree from Rice University and her Bachelor of Music degree from Northwestern University. Recent roles include Lucia in The Rape of Lucretia and Valletto in L’incoronazione di Poppea. Stephanie was awarded an Encouragement Award in the San Francisco District of the 2023 Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition, an Emerging Talent Award in the 2023 Lotte Lenya Competition, first place in the 2022 Fox Valley Collegiate Voice Competition, and the Farwell Trust Award in the 2022 Musicians Club of Women Competition. This summer, she joined the Manetti-Shrem Opera Program as a Vocal Fellow, and she. is currently the soprano for Utah Opera's Resident Artist program. https://www.stephaniechee.com/
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David Silvano
Guest Artist, Summer 2024
David Silvano is an emerging Peruvian-American tenor with a powerful, yet vibrant and flexible voice and a natural talent for acting. Mr. Silvano recently made his role debut as The Duke in Verdi’s Rigoletto with Mobile Opera, and is excited to be among the first to perform with Park City Opera. In 2022, he sang the role of Theodore Billings in the staged premiere of Clint Borzoni's The Copper Queen with Marble City Opera where he was praised by Arts Knoxville for bringing "a deliciously romantic lyrical side" to the character. During the 2023 season, Mr. Silvano was a Resident Artist at Indianapolis Opera, where he covered the role of Don José and sang the role of El Remendado in Carmen. https://www.davidsilvano.com/
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Jie Fang Goh
Guest Artist, Summer 2024
Malaysia-born Jie Fang Goh charts a versatile music career as a pianist, collaborator, and scholar. He recently received an artist diploma in Opera Coaching from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and is currently the pianist-coach for the Resident Artist program at Utah Opera. In previous summers, he served as a pianist-coach and orchestral keyboardist in vocal music programs across the United States and abroad, such as Opera Lucca, Brevard Music Center, Music On Site, Wintergreen Music Festival, Vienna Summer Music Festival, and Miami Music Festival. Holding degrees in collaborative piano and musicology, he co-founded the LexGoh Piano Duo with Alexander Kostadinov and authored the first musicological study on Billy Joel’s only solo piano album, Fantasies and Delusions.
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Dalloway Smith
Marketing and Publicity Intern
Dalloway is an emerging young cellist who is an active member of the arts community in Utah. She uses her talents as a way to connect with others, most evidently in her work as a chamber musician. Dalloway’s grandmother, Ariel Bybee, sang as a mezzo-soprano at the Metropolitan Opera for 18 years; Ariel’s passion for opera continues to grow in Dalloway. Her most recent musical endeavors include attending Ascent Cello and Chamber Music Festival, winning the American Fork Concerto Competition, and winning first prize with her string quartet at the American String Teachers Association Biannual Competition.
Our Board of Directors
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Peter Anagnostos
Peter Anagnostos brings nearly four decades of nonprofit fundraising management to Park City Opera. He has worked for University Circle Inc., Apollo’s Fire, and other non-profits. His enthusiasm for Park City Opera is inspired by its vision of audience-centered opera offered by talented artists who keep alive a centuries-old art form by reimagining the concert experience. He believes that it takes partnerships to grow and sustain vibrant and vital communities.
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Richard Lalli
Richard Lalli is Professor of Music (Adjunct) at Yale University, where he created the Yale Baroque Opera Project. For six years he conducted the Yale Collegium Musicum. He also developed the Shen Musical Theater Curriculum. As a singer, Mr. Lalli has repeatedly given solo recitals in Wigmore Hall in London, Salle Cortot in Paris, and Weill and Merkin Halls in New York City. He has been particularly active in the performance of chamber music, appearing with the Boston Camerata, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Folger Consort, the new-music ensemble Sequitur, and with pianist Peter Serkin and the Brentano String Quartet.
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Susanne Mentzer
Susanne Mentzer had an international operatic and concert career of over 42 years, 27 of which was spent singing leading roles at the Metropolitan Opera. A mentor to young singers, she is on faculty at San Francisco Conservatory of Music and adjudicates competitions. She serves on the Board of Directors of both The Sullivan Foundation and The George London Foundation, which each give awards to promising young singers. She has been recognized by the Voice Foundation for her outspokenness about vocal health and also has written about life as a singer.
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Diane Zack
Diane Zack is a lifelong lover of music, opera, ballet, and the visual arts. She is a devoted non-profit community leader and serves on the board of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, The American Friends of the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, the SFMOMA Architecture + Design Accessions Committee, and formerly the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation. She received her B.A. from Harvard College and her J.D. from Hastings College of the Law. Diane is thrilled to lend her decades of fundraising and development experience to support Park City Opera’s mission.
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