Caleb Yanez Glickman

Caleb Yanez Glickman is the Music Director of Opera Modesto, where he works as an integral part of the music staff bringing opera to California’s Central Valley. His conducting of their Le Nozze di Figaro was acclaimed by North Bay Stage and Screen as sounding “as fresh as the day it premiered.” From 2022-24, he was also the music director of the Hollywood Youth Orchestra, an El-Sistema program where he led programming dedicated to cultivating community interest in classical music.

Since 2023, he has conducted several productions with Pacific Opera Project in Los Angeles, quickly becoming one of their mainstay conductors. In addition to POP and Opera Modesto, Caleb has also recently worked with Spoleto Festival USA, Opera Southwest, Lyric Opera of Orange County, Opera in the Ozarks, Opera Saratoga, and Savannah Opera. This season, he added Washington National Opera and Fargo-Moorhead Opera to those ranks.

Caleb is a zealous advocate for bringing classical music to new audiences. In addition to his collaboration on Enchanted Melodies, his recent conception of a gender-bent production of The Mighty Casey, William Schuman’s baseball opera, was hailed as “nothing short of brilliant.” As music director in Modesto, he also helps foster several education based initiatives. This includes their Summer Opera Institute, a youth-program for learning about opera, and their Story into Song Literacy Initiative, which brings opera to over 13,000 students in the Central Valley during the school year.