Johan Hartman, bass-baritone, is a graduate of both NEC's undergraduate program and CCM's graduate program. He has worked with a number of professional opera companies, most recently performing the role of Colline in Florida l'opera and Zarzuela's production of La Boheme and the role of Uberto in Mostly Baroque's production of La Serva Padrona. He has also worked as a young artist at Sarasota Opera in Sarasota Florida under the tutelage of Maestro DeRenzi.

His list of operatic roles is extensive, including Mozart operas such as Leporello from Don Giovanni and Sarastro from Magic Flute, to the operas of Richard Strauss (Truffaldin in Ariadne auf Naxos) . He’s performed some of the earliest operas ever written, such as Seneca from Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, to premiering new operas, such as playing The Hunter in Timothy Ayres-Kerr’s Game of Werewolf. 

As a composer, he has written three song-cycles, Blood and the Moon, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, and Love and Death, which are settings of poetry by W.B. Yeats, Robert Browning, and Lord Byron respectively. He also set Part One of Yeats’ epic poem, The Wanderings of Oisin. Most recently he has written a one-act chamber opera entitled The Signal Man, with a libretto based on Charles Dickens’ short-story of the same name.

He has also stage-directed three operas, most recently having directed Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors.