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Nikil Sanjay
Nikil Sanjay - AMAHLNikil
Sanjay is an eleven-year-old boy soprano celebrated for expressive musicality across opera, choral repertoire, and musical theater. As one of few international boy opera singers of Indian descent, he developed classical technique under tutelage of Ms. Ildiko Rozs since 2020, earning top honors including first in the APEX International Music Festival and Gold and Silver awards at the Golden Key International Music Festival, leading to Carnegie Hall performances. Nikil was featured soloist with Rutgers Symphonic Winds and sings with Princeton Boy Choir Chamber Singers as a youngest member. Theatrically, he portrayed Augustus Gloop in Willy Wonka Jr. and Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Blending technical agility with operatic poise, he masters demanding classical repertoire across multiple languages with expressive, dramatic presence.
Dante Doganiero
Dante Doganiero – KING MELCHIOR
Baritone Dante Doganiero is a graduate of Westminster Choir College at Rider
University earning a Master of Music in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy with
distinction. During his time at Westminster Choir College, Dante performed with the
Westminster Opera Workshop and Westminster Opera Theatre (2017-2019), performing Peter (Hansel and Gretel), Sam (Trouble in Tahiti), Sprecher (Die Zauberflöte), Frank (Die Fledermaus), and 2nd commissioner (Dialogues des Carmélites). Outside of his graduate studies, Dante has attended the Opera Steamboat Opera Artist Institute, The San Miguel Institute of Bel Canto, and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Summer Opera Studio. Dante was 2020 Finalist in the Professional Divisions of Art Song and Opera for The American Prize. Professional roles include Harlequin in Ariadne auf Naxos with Taconic Opera, Dancairo in Carmen with Boheme Opera NJ (now The State Opera of New Jersey), the title role in Don Giovanni with LAH-Summer Opera Workshop, Baron Douphol in La Traviata with New Jesey Opera Theater, and most recently Schmidt in Andrea
Chenier with Opera Delaware.
Martin Hargrove
Martin Hargrove – KING BALTHAZAR
Bass Martin Hargrove has performed on stage with Minnesota Opera, Pamiro Opera,
Florida Grand Opera, Pennsylvania Opera Theater, Center City Opera, American Opera
Projects, Opera Festival of New Jersey, Opera Delaware and the Braunschweig
Staatsoper. With Boheme Opera, he has sung the roles of Colline in La Boheme, Raimondo Bide-the-Bent in Lucia di Lammermoor and Balthazar in Amahl and the Night
Visitors. Other roles include Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro, Sparafucile in Rigoletto,
Angelotti in Tosca, Jake in Porgy and Bess, Sarastro and the Speaker in Die
Zauberflote, Masetto and Il Commendatore in Don Giovanni, and Colatinus in The Rape
of Lucretia. His musical theater credits include the workshop cast of The Color Purple,
Hal Prince’s Tony Award winning revival of Showboat and the voice of the plant, Audrey
2 in Little Shop of Horrors. His concert repertoire includes Handel’s Messiah and Israel in Egypt, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, The Faure Requiem, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, Mozart’s Requiem, and Alice Parker’s Sermon on the Mountain. Martin also sings with The National Chorale and The American Spiritual Ensemble.
David Smolokoff
David Smolokoff – KING KASPAR
Praised for his warm tone and deep expressiveness, David Smolokoff is a Manhattan based operatic tenor and soloist. David has sung with New York City Opera, Sarasota Opera, Utah Festival Opera, New Jersey Light Opera, Lyric Opera of New Jersey, The Narnia Festival in Narnia, Italy, and the Festival of the Aegean in Athens, Greece among others. He has been a soloist with the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, as well as New Jersey’s Orchestra by the Sea and The Greater Shore Concert Band. Among
other operatic roles, David has performed Rodolfo in La Boheme, Don Ottavio in Don
Giovanni, Canio in Pagliacci, and The Witch in Hansel and Gretel. Equally at home on
the musical theater stage, David has portrayed several leading roles including the title roles in Pippin and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, as well as Beast in Beauty and the Beast, and Tony in West Side Story. David holds degrees in music from The Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University and The Juilliard School.
Olivia Mooney
Olivia Mooney – AMAHL
(Understudy + Cover,
Dress Rehearsal Special Performance)
Young Olivia Mooney is an active stage performer in the Mercer County Region. She
has been featured numerous times at Hopewell Valley Children’s Theater, including
Enid in Legally Blonde, Wickersham Brother in Seussical the Musical, King Julien in
Madagascar, Squirt in Finding Nemo and Chip in Beauty and the Beast, among other
roles. She has been the soloist in the National Anthem for Princeton Woman’s
Basketball and for Trenton Thunder at Arm & Hammer Park. A student at Timberlane
Middle School-Class of 2028, Olivia was a Semi-Finalist Winner in the 2025 Laurita
Winery Junior Idol.
Krista Piciano
Krista Piciano – MOTHER
Krista Piciano is a young full lyric operatic soprano with a uniquely rich and vibrant tone.
This past summer, she performed with the Opera in the Ozarks in their productions of
Le Nozze di Figaro as Countess, Suor Angelica as Sorella della Novizie, and Gianni
Schicchi as Nella. Last fall, she starred as Serpina in the Garden State Opera’s
production of La Serva Padrona. In the spring of 2024, she was selected as Opera America’s young artist for their Career Blueprints Workshop. She was an emerging artist with the Janiec Opera Company at the Brevard Music Festival in 2023. Krista was awarded the NJ NATS Mildred May Scholarship for 2024-25. Artist Awards in competition include first prize in the Eastern Regional NATS, New York NATS, and New Jersey NATS; The
Encouragement Award at the Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique
Laffont Competition (formerly MET Council Auditions); The Nebraska District in the
Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition; Winner of the John
Alexander National Vocal Competition. She earned her Master of Music in Voice
Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College at Rider University.
Moses Possible
Moses Possible – THE PAGE
Haitian American baritone Moses Possible, praised for his warm voice and storytelling,
has wowed audiences through his varying musical engagements and performances. A
proud New Jersey native, specifically born in Trenton, he has performed with various
ensembles in the Philadelphia tri-state area. Recent operatic credits include Mr.
Gobineau (The Medium, Delaware Valley Opera Company), and Ibn-Hakia (Iolanta,
Redvivus Opera Company). Recent accolades include being selected as a scholarship
winner by the Marian Anderson Guild of New Jersey, a second-place finish in New
Jersey NATS’ 2026 audition festival, and a semifinalist in Opera Ebony’s Emerging
Artist division of the 2025-26 Benjamin Matthew’s Competition. Moses is incredibly
grateful to be returning to The State Opera of New Jersey after singing with the Chorus
in the company’s 2025 production of
Il Trovatore and is looking forward to putting on an earnest performance as The Page.
Marika Klima
Marika Klima – THE DANCER
New Jersey native Marika Klima began dancing at age three and discovered her
passion for ballet at eleven. She trained at Ballet Technique under Julie Caprio before
studying abroad at Autrand Ballet France in Saint-Raphaël, France, under Pascale
Autrand. She completed high school at Walnut Hill School for the Arts under Michael
Owen, graduating magna cum laude and receiving the Dance Departmental Award of
Excellence in 2017. That same year, she joined Charlotte Ballet. Since returning to the
Tri-State area, Marika has worked as a freelance artist with project-based companies.
Her repertoire spans classical and contemporary works, including her favorite soloist role, the First Shade Variation from La Bayadère. Marika is incredibly grateful to return to the stage with The State Opera of New Jersey in Amahl and the Night Visitors for the third time, sharing her love of dance with Mari Grace, who will proudly be watching from the audience.
Amahl & The Night Visitors
TSONJ celebrates Christmas & Holidays 2026 with the highly acclaimed Opera, Amahl & The Night Visitors. Amahl sees a giant star and is visited by the Three Wise Magi on their way to see a special newborn child. Despite their poverty, the mother welcomes the mysterious three kings into their home to Amahl's curious delight.
Location:
Church of St. Gregory the Great
4620 Nottingham Way, Hamilton Square, NJ
Time:
Sunday, December 13, 2026 - 4:00pm
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