opera coach
Timothy Shaindlin's work spans over 30 years in the top opera houses of North America and Europe. A native of New York City, he joined the Yale School of Music faculty in 2008. After studies at The Juilliard School and Indiana University, he worked for the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington National Opera, San Diego Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, and Pittsburgh Opera. He has also coached for Glimmerglass Opera, Sarasota Opera, and Hawaii Opera Theatre. In Europe, he worked for Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu and played master classes for Tito Gobbi. He has played classes and coachings for such artists as Joan Sutherland, Birgit Nilsson, Beverly Sills, Marilyn Horne, Natalie Dessay, Ben Heppner, Luciano Pavarotti, Zinka Milanov. Eleanor Steber, Samuel Ramey, Regina Resnik, Regine Crespin, Roberta Peters, Thomas Hampson, and Frederica von Stade.
Mr. Shaindlin's work on the podium includes conducting engagements with the Wolf Trap Opera Festival, Hawaii Opera Theatre, Pittsburgh Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Chicago Light Opera Works, and Eugene Opera. He has assisted such renowned conductors as Christoph Eschenbach, Sir Andrew Davis, Daniel Barenboim, Valery Gergiev, Richard Bonynge, Bruno Bartoletti, Donato Renzetti, Louis Langrée, Edoardo Müller, Yves Abel, Daniele Gatti, Antonio Pappano, and Paul Gemignani.
No stranger to musical theater, he has played keyboards for National Company tours of The Will Rogers Follies, Camelot, State Fair, Miss Saigon, Grease, and Les Miz. As linguist and translator, Mr. Shaindlin's supertitle translations have been featured in many opera houses in the United States, and his is the first-ever English translation/transliteration of the original version of Boris Godunov.