Emily Gallagher, described as “harmonically appealing and splendiferous” (Stage and Cinema) is a soprano based in Los Angeles. As a 2022-23 Fulbright Scholar to Austria she worked with the theater production company TaleSpin—Musical Tales for Big and Small in Vienna to produce an original children’s concert series and picture book available in four languages.

Role highlights include Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Carolina in Il matrimonio segreto, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, Lucy in The Telephone, Susanna in Il segreto di Susanna, and Maguelonne/La Fée in Pauline Viardot’s Cendrillon. An avid supporter of contemporary opera, she has performed roles such as Nada in Ana Sokolovic’s Svadba in Belgrade, Serbia and Soprano in Missy Mazzoli’s Songs from the Uproar at the August Wilson Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She also has originated multiple roles, most recently singing the role of John F. Kennedy in Dante De Silvia and Alan Olejniczak’s Minute to Midnight with Synchromy in Los Angeles.

Emily has music and stage directed numerous musicals for youth theater and created a PBS “teachable moment” about opera which aired on Pittsburgh area PBS stations. Enchanted Melodies is a fusion of Emily’s creative passions with the mission of accessible and affordable live music experiences for all.

Praised for his superb leadership of the orchestra, Caleb Yanez Glickman was recently appointed Associate Conductor of Opera Modesto, where he works as an integral part of the music staff bringing opera to California’s Central Valley. His recent music direction of OM’s production of Le Nozze di Figaro was acclaimed by North Bay Stage and Screen as having “precision and cleanliness that made Mozart’s music sound as fresh as the day it premiered.” He worked for several years as the music director of the Hollywood Youth Orchestra, an El-Sistema style youth orchestra program in Los Angeles.

He was music director of Pacific Opera Project’s award winning production of The Pirates of Penzance. Since then, he has led several productions with POP including Scalia/Ginsburg, Trial by Jury, and Die Fledermaus. In addition to POP and Opera Modesto, Caleb has also recently worked with Opera in the Ozarks, Opera Southwest, Opera Saratoga, and Savannah Opera.

Caleb is a zealous advocate of bringing classical music to new audiences. Last year, he was the music director for Opera Modesto’s world premiere production of Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant, an American Lyric Theater Co-commission. Since then, he conducted Lyric Opera of Orange County’s production of William Schuman’s baseball opera, The Mighty Casey. He is also spearheading a project entitled Transport: of a first of its kind double bill of Jake Heggie’s Another Sunrise and Handel’s Judas Maccabeus with The Why Collective in New York.