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Concert Operetta Theater
is dedicated to presenting, preserving, and educating audiences about operetta through professional performances from the Golden, and Silver ages of operetta. A minimalist production concept highlights the story and the music, bringing the production closer to the audience in an intimate setting. Concert Operetta Theater Board of Directors Daniel M. Pantano, Executive and Artistic Director Anne Hagan, president Stephan Stoeckl, vice-president Nan Altman, secretary Jerry L. Bennett, treasurer James Tallman Honorary Board
Mr. Pantano is a trained singer and has been has performed in opera, oratorio and cabaret productions with repertoire that has been most diverse, and from which he has made a home in supporting and character roles. He has worked with such groups as Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Delaware, Augusta Opera, The Pennsylvania Opera Theater, Banff Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera and The Academy of Vocal Arts Theater. 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 make-up design and apprenticed with Opera Company of Philadelphia. He later did design work for Boston Opera, New Hampshire Opera, Boston University Opera Theater and was the designer for Boston Lyric Opera’s production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle that was performed both in Boston and on Broadway in NYC. 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 helping to raise over $65,000, which was donated in grant-form to local nonprofit groups working with pediatric AIDS. Daniel was the founder of the only singing waiters group in the state of Iowa, located in Des Moines and called The Hemingway Singers. Mr. Pantano and the Hemingway Singers 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 alumnus of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, and The Academy of Vocal Arts, Philadelphia. Recent singing credits include a solo recital for the Hadley Memorial Fund of Chester County, The Helena Symphony (MT) and The North Penn Symphony (La bohème), River City Brass Band (Gershwin), Main Line Opera Guild ( The Gypsy Baron), and five recitals for the Brown Bag Concert Series at The Church of the Holy Trinity on Rittenhouse Square. Mr. Pantano’s recent speaking engagements on operetta include The Nelson Eddy Appreciation Society ( Cambridge Springs, PA), the Friends of Operetta (Los Angeles, CA), OLLI (Osher's Lifelong Learning Center at Temple University Friday Forum, and the Philadelphian - Tuesday Morning Discussion Group. In May 2005, Mr. Pantano was interviewed by Jill Pasternak for her Crossover broadcast on WRTI 90.1 FM. in conjunction with Concert Operetta Theater’s concert – The Music of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. A History of Concert Operetta Theater Productions The Merry Nibelung / O. Straus , Jose Melendez, music director Red = potpourri concerts and Blue = operetta productions Click on the name to read the bios of COT's music directors James Batt Click here to see the complete list of performers with COT |
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