Todd Queen
Tenor
Dr. Todd Queen, Associate Professor of Voice, is Chair of the Department of Music, Theatre and Dance in the College of Liberal Arts at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. His experience as an operatic tenor has led to numerous credits as an opera stage director. Todd Queen continues an active performing career that includes faculty and guest recitals, master classes, and solo engagements with national and regional opera companies, orchestras, choruses, and concert series. His operatic roles include Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, Don Basilio in Le Nozze di Figaro, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, the title role Candide, Fenton in Falstaff, Steuermann in Der fliegende Holländer , Male Chorus in Rape of Lucretia, Borsa in Rigoletto, El Remendado in Carmen, and St. Brioche in Merry Widow. He has sung with Sacramento Opera, Operafestival di Roma, Opera Fort Collins, Fargo-Moorhead Opera, Lyric Artists of the West, Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra, the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Orchestral engagements include tenor soloist in Carmina Burana with Cheyenne Symphony and tenor soloist in Messiah with Larimer Chorale.
Todd received his undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University and his Master of Music and Doctorate of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music. Todd Queen’s credits as opera director include Mozart’s
Cosi fan tutte,
Don Giovanni, and
Le Nozze di Figaro, a double bill of
Cavellaria Rusticana and
Pagliacci, Verdi’s
Falstaff, Puccini’s
La Bohème, Lehár’s
The Merry Widow, Carlisle Floyd’s
Susannah, Copland’s
The Tender Land, Britten’s
Albert Herring, and Gilbert and Sullivan’s
The Mikado and
Pirates of Penzance.
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