Pianist Craig Rutenberg studied with Pierre Bernac, Geoffrey Parsons,
and John Wustman before working at the San Francisco Opera, Houston
Grand Opera, Glynebourne Festival, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, and l'Opéra
Comique de Paris. He has been accompanist for Frederica von Stade, Erie
Mills, Sumi Jo, Patricia Schuman, Olaf Bär, Stanford Olsen, Roberta
Peters, and Régine Crespin and has often worked with Thomas Hampson.
Rutenberg can be heard on the Deutsche Grammophon recording of Le
Nozze di Figaro with James Levine and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
In recital, Mr. Rutenberg performs with Stanford Olsen for the Musical
Heritage Society, and on an album of songs with texts by Walt Whitman
featuring Thomas Hampson (Angel/EMI). He has served as head of the music
staff of the Metropolitan Opera and on the faculty of Yale University,
and he currently holds an appointment as Music Supervisor of the Opera
institute at Boston University, while remaining active in giving master
classes at the Chautauqua Institute, the Santa Fe Opera, the Wolf Trap
Opera, and L'Ecole Lyrique de la Bastille, Paris.
