This season for HGO, Butler Studio alumnus Cory McGee performs the roles of Alidoro in Cinderella, Colline in La bohème, and Biterolf in Tannhäuser. In HGO’s 2023-24 season, McGee performed as Second Knight in Parsifal and Imperial Commissioner in Madame Butterfly. Elsewhere the same season, he performed the roles of Pietro in Simon Boccanegra with Opera Philadelphia, Colline in La bohème with Chattanooga Symphony & Opera, Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with The Atlanta Opera, and as a bass soloist in Handel’s Messiah with Santa Fe Symphony. HGO roles for 2022-23 included Doctor Grenvil in La traviata, Johann in Werther, Jailer in Tosca, and Fifth Jew in Salome. During the 2021-22 HGO season, he performed the role of Billy in The Snowy Day. McGee joined Santa Fe Opera as an apprentice artist in 2019 and 2021, performing roles of the Gardener in Ruder’s The Thirteenth Child and Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In 2022, he debuted at Detroit Opera in the role of Colline in La bohème and sang the role of Caspar in Der Freischütz with Wolf Trap Opera, where he returned in 2023 to perform the title role in Don Giovanni. McGee was the second prize winner in HGO’s 2020 Eleanor McCollum Competition Concert of Arias. He completed his Master of Music degree at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music.