Bryndon Hassman

San Francisco Bay Area native Bryndon Hassman has been a member of the music staff for San Francisco Opera for 34 seasons and LA Opera for 20 seasons. He’s worked on such diverse productions as Strauss’s Capriccio, featuring costumes designed by Gianni Versace; the American premiere of Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise; and the world premiere of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, all in San Francisco. He helped prepare productions of Wagner’s Ring Cycle conducted by James Conlon in Los Angeles in 2010 and by Sir Donald Runnicles in San Francisco in 1999, 2011, and 2018, and he can be heard on LA Opera’s Grammy Award-winning recordings of John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles and Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. One of Mr. Hassman’s more unusual professional experiences was coaching Robin Williams on how to sing the aria “Largo al factotum” for the 1993 film Mrs. Doubtfire. Mr. Hassman has performed in numerous recitals, accompanying sopranos Renée Fleming and Ruth Ann Swenson, tenor Rolando Villazón, and baritone Thomas Hampson, among many other artists.