Our Team

  • Lena Goldstein

    Executive Director, Co-founder

    Lena Goldstein is an American soprano who has appeared recently with Opera Parallèle, Vox Opera, San Francisco Conservatory, Songfest, Chicago Summer Opera, Opera Theatre of Yale, Yale Baroque Opera, and the Yale Symphony Orchestra. Her recent roles include Berta (The Barber of Seville), The Governess (The Turn of the Screw), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Eurinda (Doriclea), and Nora (Riders to the Sea). Offstage, Lena works to strengthen the artistic landscape for emerging professionals. She serves as a marketing consultant for WE INC., supporting arts and culture organizations across the Bay Area, and is an adjunct professor of professional development and digital strategy at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Lena is a recent graduate of Yale University (B.A. in Molecular Biology, cum laude), and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (M.M. in Voice) as a recipient of the Samuel Clark Scholarship. Outside of her operatic work, Lena finds joy in leading High Holiday services as a cantor, watercolor painting, and skiing. lenagoldstein.com

  • Benjamin Beckman

    Artistic Director, Co-founder

    Benjamin Beckman is a Los Angeles-based conductor, composer, and pianist. Ben has served on the music staff for productions with Sarasota Opera, Pacific Opera Project, Opera Company of Middlebury Vermont, Chicago Summer Opera, USC Thornton Opera, and the Opera Theater of Yale College, assisting on more than two dozen operas. In Summer 2025, following his fellowship at the Manetti Shrem Opera Program at Festival Napa Valley, Beckman led Park City Opera's inaugural mainstage production (of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia) to a sold-out run. In 2025/2026, he makes his company debut at The Atlanta Opera assistant conducting Glass’s La Belle et la Bête and returns to Pacific Opera Project as rehearsal pianist and chorusmaster for Fra Diavolo, Zorro, The Abduction from the Seraglio, and Turandot, and USC Thornton Opera for The Cunning Little Vixen and The Turn of the Screw. He will conduct David Conte’s The Gift of the Magi with Park City Opera in December 2025. www.benjaminbeckmanmusic.com

  • 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 an Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Lisl Wangermann is a lyric soprano and stage director passionate about creating opera for modern audiences. In 2025, Lisl’s work ranged from roles in Nico Muhly's Dark Sisters (Eliza) and Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Donna Elvira) to her "standout performance" (Cleveland Classical) as Sophy in the world premiere of Margi Griebling-Haigh's The Higgler. She also made her professional directorial debut with Park City Opera’s production of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville and will be directing PCO’s production of David Conte’s The Gift of the Magi in December. Lisl has previously 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, among others, and she has been recognized in both aria and art song competitions. In 2023, Lisl was a semifinalist for the Dallas Opera’s Lone Star Vocal Competition, and in 2024, Lisl was a finalist for the Gerda Lissner Art Song and Lieder Competition and received an encouragement award. Lisl holds degrees from Yale University (B.A.) and the Cleveland Institute of Music (M.M, A.D.). 

  • Dalloway Smith

    Marketing and Publicity Intern

    Dalloway Smith 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

  • Amy Englebrecht

    Amy Englebrecht is a Park City-based artist and lifelong lover of music. She studied piano as a child and performed in community theater, show choirs, and solo work through her teens and twenties. After pursuing a career in the sciences, she moved to Park City where she has become an active contributor to the Park City Arts Council, Park City Artists’ Association, and the Collaborative Artists Network. An abstract mixed media painter, Englebrecht is especially interested in the intersection of music and visual arts. She has exhibited work in galleries and alternative art spaces across the western US, and her pieces are held in private collections internationally. 

  • 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.

  • Neylan McBaine

    Neylan has been a lifelong lover of the performing arts, having performed on every mainstage at Lincoln Center by the age of 12. After studying piano at Juilliard's Pre-College program and at Yale College, Neylan entered a career in marketing in Silicon Valley. Today, Neylan runs a software company that helps music teachers automate their scheduling, communication, payments and other business management needs. She lives in Salt Lake City and is the mother of three musical daughters. 

  • 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. 

  • 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.