About
A graduate of the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Allen Boxer was a member of the Junges Ensemble at the Semperoper Dresden between 2011 and 2013, where his roles included Dandini in La cenerentola, Masetto in Don Giovanni, Angelotti in Tosca, Baron Douphol in La traviata, and Vicomte Cascada in Lehár’s Die lustige Witwe. At Curtis, he sang Nick Shadow in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore and the Forester in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen.
He has also taken part in the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence’s Académie Européenne de Musique.
Elsewhere, Allen Boxer has appeared as Collatinus in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia with both Castleton Festival and Aldeburgh’s Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme, as Masetto with Opera North (NH), Olin Blitch in Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah with the Chautauqua Voice Institute, as well as Spencer Coyle in a new production of Britten’s Owen Wingrave and gave his role debut as Frank in Korngold’s Die tote Stadt, for the Nantes/Angers Opéra and the Opéra national de Lorraine.
Last season, he returned to Semperoper Dresden as Medico in Macbeth, Dottore Grenvil in La Traviata, Curio in Giulio Cesare, Vicomte Cascade in Die lustige Witwe, Cesare Angelotti in Tosca and gave recitals in Paris and Berlin.