Tyler N. Thress
as Captain Crewe
Tyler N. Thress (Captain Crewe), tenor, is pursuing degrees in music and anthropology at Ohio University, where he studied voice with the late Dr. Lisa Foerster. With OU’s Opera Theater program, Tyler has appeared as Major General Stanley (The Pirates of Penzance), Caldwell B. Cladwell (Urinetown), Bob (in excerpts from The Old Maid and the Thief), and as the narrator in a staged adaptation of J.S. Bach’s Coffee Cantata (BWV 211). As a member of the Genesis Theater Project, he has appeared as Captain Albert Lennox (The Secret Garden) and, more recently, Thomas Jefferson (1776). In concert, Tyler has appeared with the Parkersburg Choral Society as a soloist in Vivaldi’s Magnificat and Mozart’s Sparrow Mass (K 220), and recently gave a recital, An Eclectic Aesthetic, which featured both well-known and obscure music.