opera coach
Timothy Shaindlin, a native of New York City, joined the Yale School of Music faculty in September 2008. After studies at Indiana University, he worked for New York City Opera, Washington National Opera, San Diego Opera, Wolf Trap Opera and Pittsburgh Opera, and recently completed a 15-year stint with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, where he also coached for the Ryan Opera Center for American Artists. He has also coached for Glimmerglass Opera, Sarasota Opera and Hawaii Opera Theatre, where he recently conducted Sondheim's A Little Night Music.
In Europe, he worked for Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu and played five summers of master classes for Tito Gobbi. He has also played classes and coachings for such artists as Joan Sutherland, Birgit Nilsson, Beverly Sills, Marilyn Horne, Natalie Dessay, Ben Heppner, Luciano Pavarotti, Zinka Milanov, Eleanor Steber, Samuel Ramey, Regina Resnik, Regine Crespin and Federica von Stade. In 2007 he prepared War and Peace for the Metropolitan Opera.