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Concert Operetta Theater
is dedicated to presenting, preserving, and educating audiences about operetta through professional performances of classic and neo-classic operetta. Past Concert Operetta Theater Productions The Loves of Lehar, Richard A. Raub, music director Countess Maritza / Kalman, James Batt, music director The Student Prince / Romberg, Luke Housner, music director The Cousin from Batavia / Künneke , Jeremy Gill, music director The Merry Widow / Lehar, Nicholas Mastripolito, music director An Afternoon of Operetta Classics, Nicholas Mastripolito, piano The Czarevitch / Lehar, Richard A. Raub, music director A Night in Vienna!, Jeremy Gill, piano The Music of Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy,Gloria Collins, music director Die Schöne Galathée / von Suppe, Benjamin Blozan, music director The Chocolate Soldier / O. Straus , Jeremy Gill, music director The Duchess of Chicago / Kalman, Gloria Collins, music director Cabaret concert featuring The Count of Luxembourg / Lehar, James Batt, music director Music of the American Operetta, Gloria Collins, piano Countess Maritza / Kalman, James Batt, music director Paganini / Lehar, James Batt, music director Operetta in ¾ Time!, Gloria Collins, piano A Recital by Daniel Pantano, baritone & Benjamin Blozan, piano The Gypsy Princess / Kalman, Gloria Collins, music director Red = potpourri concerts & Blue = operetta productions
During his time as an Artist -apprentice with The Des Moines Opera Company, he sang Fiorello in their production The Barber of Seville, which was televised live for PBS and aired nationally. Before his performing
years Mr. Pantano studied Mr. Pantano served for three years as Board President for The Voices for Children Foundation of Philadelphia. During that period they recorded three Christmas CD’s that had the distinction of being the #1 holiday recordings each year at Tower Records which helped raise over $65,000, which was donated in grant-form to local nonprofit groups working with pediatrics AIDS. Along with musical ventures his talents have taken him into the food industry, where he was Food Manager at The Bellevue Hotel (Founder's Dining Room), Omni Hotel (Azelea's) and Wharton’s Steinberg Conference Center. While working at the University Park Hotel in Des Moines, Iowa, Daniel was the founder of the only singing waiters group in that state called The Hemingways Singers. They made frequent television appearances and were invited to open the Iowa State Fair two years running. He was also a regular in cooking segments for local morning television, introducing Chilean Wines and Wild Game recipes to the public. Mr. Pantano was awarded the DiRoNA (Distinguished Restaurants of North America) while at the Bellevue Hotel and has also been listed in Outstanding Young Men in America (1986), and in the National Register’s Who’s Who of Executives and Professionals (2001). Mr. Pantano is a graduate of Boston University and an alumni of the Academy of Vocal Arts and Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida. Recent singing credits include The Helena Symphony (MT) and The North Penn Symphony (La boheme), River City Brass Band (Gershwin), Main Line Opera Guild (The Gypsy Baron), and four recitals for the Lunch Box Concert Series at Church of the Holy Trinity on Rittenhouse Square. He has been a core member of the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, and a regular performer with A Touch of Classics quartet, with recent cabaret appearances (The Best of Broadway, America Forever and A Christmas Remembered) at the Skytop Lodge in the Poconos. Mr. Pantano have been a recent guest speaker for the Nelson Eddy Appreciation Society (Cambridge Springs, PA), and the Friends of Operetta (Los Angeles, CA) Click names below to read the bios of Click here to see the complete list of performers with |
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