About Us

Center Stage Opera is a non-profit (501c3) opera company with a vital and active artistic board based in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area.

We are very creative in our approach to opera. We have established a dynamic relationship with Cumberland Perry Area Vocational and Technical School in the areas of graphics, set design and set construction. The students are learning valuable, real world transferable skills by designing and printing our posters, postcards, programs and tickets.

We are also the first and only Central Pennsylvania opera company presently touring. At this time we perform at such locations as:

• Camp Hill United Methodist Church
• Pullo Family Performing Arts Center in York
• Mount Gretna Playhouse in Mt. Gretna
• Women's Club of York
• St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Hanover

We are proud to welcome the CSO Opera Chorus. The Chorus debuted in our production of Norma and did a magnificent job. They are a wonderful asset to the company. We have some other surprises in store for future season which will be announced as soon as the details are final.

CSO supports local, qualified singers and instrumentalists, and provides opportunities to regional and national opera singers as well. We also reach out to emerging professionals as well as more experienced singers. Casts of CSO live primarily on the East Coast - from Florida to Boston. The production staff is from the immediate region.

Please feel free to read about our staff and performers through the biographies that are available.

• Zachary Levi - CSO Conductor
• Kathryn Foster - Founder / General Director / Artistic Director of CSO
• Kathy O'Donnell - Chorus Mistress
• Vickie Kline - Assistent Chorus Mistress
• José Andrade
• Elizabeth Barron
• Stephen Barton
• Adrienne Bishop
• Keiko Bjorkman
• Fran Bjorneby Kraemer
• Brian Boeshore
• Paul Brown
• Melinda Blum McGlothlin
• Diana Cantrelle
• Daniella Carvalho
• William Clark
• Anthony Daino
• Galit Dadoun
• Kenneth Derby
• Tanying Dong
• La Vina Dupree
• Eve Edwards
• Jillian Finnamore
• Obed Floan
• John Fox
• Antonio Giuliano
• Jessica Hanel
• Richard Harrison
• Richard Hobson
• Meegan Jesse
• Ko Kaiden
• Maria Cristina Keightley
• Raemond Martin
• Sara Materniak
• Alison McConekey
• Paul McIlvaine
• Liora Michelle
• Rebekah Nye
• Samuel Oberholtzer
• Kim O'Bryan
• Alejandro Olmedo
• Toni Marie Palmertree
• Catherine Perman
• Sasha Piastro
• Paul Pitts
• Maxine Richardson
• Kathryn Rictor
• Matthew Robinson
• Mark Roska
• Mari Blewitt Rowan
• Pat Sanders
• Charles Sanford
• David Serero
• Thadd Shirey
• Tracy Smith
• Barbara Staffen
• Ty Walker
• Travis Wanner
• Jennifer Waters
• Kirby Weimer
• Robert Yacoviello
• Delia Zielinski