About the Festival
Charles Schneider is a baritone from New Jersey who enjoys a busy schedule of both singing and teaching. Mr. Schneider currently serves as an adjunct professor of voice at New Jersey City University and Wagner College where he is also the director of the Opera Workshop. He has sung roles with Des Moines Metro Opera, Lyric Opera Cleveland, The Princeton Festival, Opera New York, The OK Mozart Festival, Concert Operetta Theatre of Philadelphia, Anchorage Opera, Opera Iowa, National Opera Company, and The Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts in Little Rock, Arkansas. Most recently Mr. Schneider has performed the role of Danilo in The Merry Widow with both the Concert Operetta Theater of Philadelphia and Opera at Rutgers. Last season he appeared on the main stage here at Princeton Festival as the Imperial Commissioner in Madama Butterfly and as Bob in the young artist showcase of Menotti’s Old Maid and the Thief. Currently, he is enrolled in the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Mason Gross School of the Arts and plans on receiving his DMA within the next year.