Tenor Daniel Stein closed the 2024-25 season with performances of Blind Injustice (S. Davenport Richards) at the Outcalt Theatre in Cleveland’s Playhouse Square. Earlier in the season he performed on an All-Star Master class for Opera Columbus, soloist for Carmina Burana (C. Orff) at Ohio University, and as soloist for Messiah (G.F. Handel) at Marietta College. Future engagements include a return to the New Albany Symphony to perform as soloist for Carmina Burana and Marietta College to reprise his work as soloist for Messiah.
Stein made his debut with the Western Piedmont Symphony singing Orff’s masterpiece Carmina Burana in the 2023-24 season. In the 2022-2023 season, Stein performed the same work with the Mansfield, Westerville, and Springfield Symphonies, as well as performing Janaček’s Glagolitic Mass with the Filharmonie Brno, under the baton of Dennis Russell Davies, as they toured in the US from the Czech Republic.
In the 2019-20 season he performed as a last-minute replacement tenor soloist with Robert Moody and the Memphis Symphony for their performances of Handel’s Messiah. He followed that by joining the Carpe Diem String Quartet performing selections on their concerts “From the Stage” and “Claudel” and making a return engagement with the New Albany (OH) Symphony. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, in May 2020 he was scheduled to perform as soloist with the Springfield (OH) Symphony for their performance of Orff’s Carmina Burana and in July 2020, he was to join the Carpe Diem String Quartet in residence at Trillium Woods Farm (Quilcene, WA) for performances titled “Concerts in the Barn – The Voice.”
Performance highlights for Stein have included creating the roles of Alan Seymour in the World Premiere of the opera Picnic (L. Larsen), and William in the World Premiere of the opera The Flood (K. Fujiwara); Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini) with Opera North (NH), Asheville Lyric Opera, and the Mansfield Symphony; Der Steuermann in Der Fliegende Holländer (Wagner) with Opera Carolina; Remendado in Carmen (Bizet) with Opera North; and Alfredo in La Traviata (Verdi) with Capital Opera Raleigh. Other roles include Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi (Puccini), Gerald in Lakmé (Delibes), Sam Polk in Susannah (Floyd), Ferrando in Così fan Tutte (Mozart), and Laurie in Little Women (Adamo). In addition, he has been seen with companies such as Opera Columbus, Dayton Opera, North Carolina Opera, Opera Project Columbus, Opera Company of North Carolina, and Greensboro Opera.
Equally at home on the concert stage Daniel has performed with such orchestras as the Arizona MusicFest Festival Orchestra, the Portland (ME) Symphony, the Winston-Salem Symphony, the Mansfield (OH) Symphony, the Charlotte Symphony, Greensboro Symphony, and the South Carolina Philharmonic to name a few. His concert repertoire includes works such as Messa da Requiem (Verdi), Messiah (Handel), Te Deum (Bruckner) Magnificat (J.S. Bach), St. John Passion (J.S. Bach), Liebeslieder Walzer (Brahms), The Creation (Haydn), The Lord Nelson Mass (Haydn), Mass in C-Minor (Mozart), and Oratorio de Noël (Saint-Sæns).
Stein completed his Doctor of Musical Arts at The Ohio State University, Master of Music at University of North Carolina Greensboro, and Bachelor of Music at Wright State University. Currently Associate Professor of Instruction of Classical and Musical Theater Voice and Coordinator of Opera Theater at Ohio University, he resides in Athens, Ohio with his wife and three daughters and their dog.
To learn more, visit www.danielcstein.com.