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“Glenn Guhr is terrific with his big warm voice and confident swagger”, raves Mary Murfin Bayley of The Seattle Times. Other critics agree, Glenn Guhr is a performer of unique and outstanding ability.
Equally at home in everything from Shakespeare to Sondheim and Monteverdi to Verdi, Mr. Guhr has always prided himself on his versatility. He has appeared in operas, operettas, musicals, plays, and film with the Pacific Northwest Ballet, The Civic Light Opera, Tacoma Opera, ACT Inc. (St. Louis), The St. Louis Shakespeare Company, Theatre Factory St. Louis and others in such roles as Gianni Schicchi, Papageno (The Magic Flute), Ford (Falstaff), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Marcello (La Bohème), and Fred Graham/Petruchio (Kiss Me, Kate).
In the past year and a half, he has appeared in major roles in five operas, a musical, two opera in schools tours, and one film, appearing with the Seattle Opera, Bellevue Opera, Capital Playhouse and others. Mr. Guhr is also an original member of the Black Box Opera Theater ensemble with which he recently appeared in Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis. Mr. Guhr is currently touring with NOISE, presenting a scene from Rossini’s Barber of Seville to a new generation of opera fans. In April, he will be appearing as Falke in the Bellevue Opera’s production of Die Fledermaus.
In addition to his stage roles, Mr. Guhr appears frequently in recital and concert in the Pacific Northwest, performing with the Walla Walla Symphony, the Bellevue Philharmonic, Orchestra Seattle/Seattle Chamber Singers, the Seattle Choral Company, the Everett Symphony, the Port Angeles Symphony, the Seattle Philharmonic and others.
Mr. Guhr received a BA in music from Tabor College and an MM in Music History from Kansas State University. He also completed course work towards a PhD in Musicology at Washington University in St. Louis before turning his full attention to performance. In 2002, he finished a DMA in Vocal Performance at the University of Washington, where he studied with renowned baritone Julian Patrick.