Joey Breslau (baritone) is a junior at the Cleveland Institute of Music(CIM) studying with Mr. Jesse Blumberg. Joey has sung the roles of Papageno, Aeneas, and Duncan from Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, and Ernest Bloch's Macbeth. He has also performed in scenes from Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro and Così fan tutte, Donizetti’s operas Elixir of Love and Don Pasquale, Verdi’s Falstaff and Otello, Bizet’s Carmen, and Massenet’s Manon. At the 2021 Middlebury German for Singers program he performed excerpts from Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni as the Count and Don Giovanni in a Mozart Pasticcio. Joey has recently premiered two new pieces by composers at CIM, Arseny Gusev’s 5 Sunset Songs and Yoav Sadeh’s Loneliness: A monodrama for soloist and ensemble. Minoring in German, Joey hopes to balance his focus on both opera and German Lieder performance.
