Performer Biography

Joseph Breslau, baritone

Joseph Breslau (baritone) is a junior at the Cleveland Institute of Music(CIM) studying with Mr. Jesse Blumberg. Joey has sung the roles of Papageno, Aeneas, and Duncan from Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, and Ernest Bloch’s Macbeth. He has also performed in scenes from Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro and Così fan tutte, Donizetti’s operas Elixir of Love and Don Pasquale, Verdi’s Falstaff and Otello, Bizet’s Carmen, and Massenet’s Manon. At the 2021 Middlebury German for Singers program he performed excerpts from Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni as the Count and Don Giovanni in a Mozart Pasticcio. In the Fall of this year, Joey performed as a soloist with the Case Western Reserve University Baroque Ensemble in performances of music by Purcell, A. Gabrieli, and L. de Sayve.

Joseph has recently premiered 4 new pieces by composers at CIM, Arseny Gusev’s 5 Sunset Songs and Micro-Opera The Blind, Yoav Sadeh’s Loneliness: A monodrama for soloist and ensemble, and Daniel DiMarino’s Micro-Opera Ruth. Minoring in German, Joey aims to balance his focus on both opera and German Lieder performance.