Join Park City Opera for Summer Songs at the Park City Greenhouse, a performance set in one of Park City’s most unique and intimate venues. This seasonal program features art songs and arias that reflect the brightness and joy of summer. Surrounded by greenery, audiences can expect an immersive concert experience and a delicious reception with bubbly and light bites.
Tickets include the performance and reception.
Program (subject to change): Summer Songs
S’il est un charmant gazon (Franz Liszt)
Mädchenblumen (Richard Strauss)
Kornblumen
Mohnblumen
Epheu
Wasserrose
Selections from Canciones clásicas españolas (Fernando Obradors)
Corazón porque pasais
Con amores, la mi madre
Del cabello más sutil
Chiquitita la novia
Fünf Lieder (Alma Mahler)
Die stille Stadt
In meines Vaters Garten
Laue Sommernacht
Bei dir ist es traut
Ich wandle unter Blumen
Tre sonetti di Petrarca (Franz Liszt)
Pace non trovo
Benedetto sia’l giorno
I’ vidi in terra angelici costumi
Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (Samuel Barber)
Performer Biographies:
Italian-American tenor Jordan Costa (2025 Mainstage Artist) is an alumnus of the Yale and Eastman Schools of Music and young artist programs including Music Academy of the West, Glimmerglass, Sarasota Opera, Central City Opera, Virginia Opera, and Nashville Opera. In 2021 Jordan made his professional debut as Nemorino in Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore with Opera in Williamsburg. Jordan later reprised the role of Nemorino with Yale Opera. While a Studio Artist with Sarasota Opera, Jordan covered Paolino in Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto, Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and Armand in Massenet’s Thérèse. Jordan also sang his first title role as a returning guest artist in Yale Opera’s production of Rossini’s Le Comte Ory. He covered Tamino, and performed as Monostatos, in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte as a Nashville Opera Mary Ragland Emerging Artist. This season, Jordan returned to Virginia Opera as a principal artist to perform Don Ottavio in their production of Don Giovanni. Park City Opera’s production of The Barber of Seville marks Jordan’s fourth production singing Count Almaviva, having performed the role recently with Virginia Opera, Opera in the Pines, and as a Gerdine Young Artist at Opera Theatre of St. Louis. www.jordancosta.com
Originally from Sunnyvale, CA, soprano Stephanie Chee (Guest Artist) sings with Utah Opera for her second season as a Resident Artist in 2025-2026. This past season, she performed Dew Fairy in Hänsel und Gretel, Handel’s Messiah with the Utah Symphony as the soprano soloist, as well as Haydn’s The Creation with the Madeleine Choir School. Recent roles include Lucia in The Rape of Lucretia and Valletto in L’incorinazione di Poppea. Stephanie was awarded an Encouragement Award in the San Francisco District of the 2023 Laffant Competition, an Emerging Talent Award in the 2023 Lotte Lenya Competition, first place in the 2022 Fox Valley Collegiate Voice Competition, second place in the 2022 Upper College Treble Voices Division of the National Student Auditions, and the Farwell Trust Award in the 2022 Musicians Club of Women Voice Competition. Last summer, she was a Vocal Fellow with the Manetti-Shrem Opera Program. She received her M.M. from Rice University in 2024. www.stephaniechee.com
Lena Goldstein (Executive Director, Park City Opera) is an American soprano who has made recent appearances with Vox Opera, San Francisco Conservatory, Songfest, Chicago Summer Opera, Opera Theatre of Yale, Yale Baroque Opera, Yale Symphony Orchestra, and Yale Chamber Orchestra. Her recent roles include The Governess (The Turn of the Screw), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), La Fée (Cendrillon), Eurinda (Doriclea), Nora (Riders to the Sea), Maggie (The Gift of the Magi), Serpina (La serva padrona), and Lady Angela (Patience). Her concert performances include Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, Mozart’s Requiem, Ravel’s Trois poèmes de Mallarmé, Muhly’s The Beauty of the Day, and premieres of Carlson’s The Disguise and Beckman’s Hartley Songs. Lena works off-stage to enhance the artistic landscape for emerging professionals through entrepreneurial initiatives. She is Executive Director of Park City Opera, directed the Hot Air New Music Festival, and managed the Opera Theatre of Yale College. She is pursuing her master’s degree at the San Francisco Conservatory as the recipient of the Samuel Clark Scholarship, and recently graduated cum laude from Yale University with a Bachelor’s in molecular biology. Lena will be singing the role of Berta in Park City Opera’s upcoming August production of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia. www.lenagoldstein.com
Benjamin Beckman (Artistic Director, Park City Opera) is a composer, conductor, and pianist based in Los Angeles. Compositional career highlights include performances on the BBC Proms, Tanglewood Music Festival, and Royal Concertgebouw Summer Concerts, and by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, and Yale Symphony Orchestra. His 70-minute chamber opera Passage won the Beekman Cannon Friends Prize for the best-submitted thesis in the music major at Yale. As a pianist, assistant conductor, and vocal coach, Benjamin has worked for the Sarasota Opera, Pacific Opera Project, Festival Napa Valley, Opera Company of Middlebury, Opera Guild of Palm Springs, Chicago Summer Opera, and Classic Lyric Arts France and Italy. While a student at Yale, Beckman was the Artistic Director of both the Opera Theater of Yale College and the Yale Undergraduate Chamber Orchestra, through which he facilitated the premieres of 21 student compositions. He is currently pursuing graduate studies in composition at the USC Thornton School of Music, where he manages the conservatory’s new music ensemble, the Thornton Edge. Ben will be conducting Park City Opera’s upcoming August production of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia. www.benjaminbeckmanmusic.com
Check out the video below to see clips from our January 2025 performance at the Greenhouse!
