- Paul Soper, baritone, made his professional operatic debut with Houston Grand Opera and has sung with Boston Lyric Opera, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Glimmerglass Opera, and the National Touring Company of the New York City Opera. Locally, Paul’s credits include Opera Aperta, Cape Cod Opera, Cambridge Chamber Opera, Longwood Opera, Lowell House Opera, and the New Opera and Musical Theater Initiative. An alumnus of both the New England Conservatory and the Boston University‘s Opera Institute, Paul twice received fellowships at the Tanglewood Institute of Music.
- Paul has also championed new works in-progress with the Shakespeare Concerts, the New Opera and New Musical Theater Initiative, and is a member of Opera-to-Go, New England’s interactive and improvisational opera outreach program. Recent performances include his debut with Cape Cod Opera as Angelotti in Tosca, the Priest at SpeakEasy Stage’s production of The Light in the Piazza. and Captain Corcoran in HMS Pinafore with Naples Opera.
- For Intermezzo, Paul has performed in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti and Hindemith’s Hin und zurück. In 2004, Paul premiered Brian Hulse's All Gold Canyon, sang the title role in Dominick Argento’s The Boor, and performed in Britten's Curlew River. Paul returns to create the role of Charles Worth in the premier of Robert Edward Smith's A Place of Beauty.