Bass-baritone Joshua Zanze has emerged as a versatile and expressive voice, collaborating in detail with local composers and opera companies to bring opera to new audiences throughout the region. Experienced in the performance of both contemporary and traditional works, Joshua premiered the role of Prospero in Douglas Buchanan’s opera Ariel’s Tempest for Peabody’s Opera Outreach 2011-2012 season. Other recent opera roles include John Brooke in Little Women, Die Sprecher in Die Zauberflöte, The Prince of Verona in Roméo et Juliette, The Imperial Commissioner in Madama Butterfly and Masetto in Don Giovanni. Most recently he performed  Schaunard in the Connecticut Lyric Opera’s production La bohéme,  Peter in The Music Academy International’s production in Hänsel und Gretel in Trentino, Italy, and the title role in Le nozze di Figaro in the Greve Opera Festival in Chianti, Italy. 

A native of Northern California, he worked closely with Townsend Opera in Modesto, CA and was the first recipient of Camerata California’s Emerging Young Artist Scholarship Program. Joshua is a recent graduate of the Master’s degree program at the Peabody Conservatory where he was under the tutelage of William Sharp and the late John Shirley-Quirk.