Jason McStoots

5 pieces since 2013 — in 2 roles, at 1 company, most often at Boston Early Music Festival.

5 pieces
2 roles
1 company
14 years

Role Sancho Panza

Role Tabarco

Teen queen

Handel’s first surviving musical composition is Almira, the opera he wrote in a hurry when shake-ups at the Hamburg opera house, where the 19-year-old had been playing in the violin section, left a planned production unfinished.

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