2009-10 Resident Artists
Resident Artists serve as ambassadors for the company, touching the community through participation in programs for public schools, community centers, libraries and corporate events. In addition to performing supporting roles, covering and sometimes performing principal roles in Pittsburgh Opera's mainstage productions, the Resident Artists gain valuable performance experience through regular Brown Bag concerts and special events, such as the annual Cabaret, and parties hosted by Pittsburgh Opera. They also perform all of the principal and supporting roles in a fully-staged Pittsburgh Opera production featuring the Resident Artists at CAPA Theater.
Click on the Resident Artists' names to see their biographies below:
 James Flora, tenor
Tenor James Flora is a first-year Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artist and will sing Fenton in Falstaff and Dancairo in Carmen. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from The Ohio State University and a Master of Music in Voice Performance from Florida State University, where he sang Orpheus in Orpheus in the Underworld, Mayor in Albert Herring and The Man in the world premiere of The Art. He worked with GRAMMY© Award-winning artists Janice Harsanyi and John Corigliano, and GRAMMY© nominee Stanford Olsen while at Florida State University.
Mr. Flora was a Young American Artist at Glimmerglass Opera in Summer 2009, where he covered Gastone in La Traviata. At Arizona Opera in the past two seasons, Mr. Flora performed the role of Nemorino in the School Tour performances of The Mini Elixir of Love and appeared on the main stage as Spoletta in Tosca.
Other mainstage assignments included covering the roles of Nanki-Poo in The Mikado, Nemorino in The Elixir of Love and Ottavio in Don Giovanni. He also performed several small roles and understudied leading tenor roles in productions of Die Fledermaus, The Magic Flute and La Traviata. He made his Arizona Opera debut as Malcolm in Macbeth and performed as Elder Gleaton in Susannah.
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