Most recently Mr. Schumpert could be seen on the stage of Tulsa Opera where he performed the roles of Second Priest in their 2008 production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and Sciarrone in their 2007 production of Puccini’s Tosca.  Also in 2007, he participated in the Princeton Festival’s production of Man of La Mancha as the Governor/Innkeeper.  During the summer of 2006 Mr. Schumpert appeared as Belcore in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’Amore with Opera New Jersey as well as covering the role of Marco in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi and the east coast premier of Michael Ching’s Buoso’s Ghost.

 Other operatic appearances have included Bob in Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief with Arizona Opera Studio, Belcore in L’elisir d’Amore, Speaker in Die Zauberflöte, Cinderella’s Prince in Sondheim’s Into the Woods, and Escamillo in Bizet’s Carmen, all as a young artist with the 2004 and 2005 Opera in the Ozarks summer festivals.

 One of Mr. Schumpert’s loves and most consistent interests has been the many Educational Outreach Programs in which he has participated. He has toured with Arizona Opera in their production of Opera Soup, Cimarron Circuit Opera as the Wolf in the Three Little Pigs, Opera New Jersey as Escamillo and Zuniga in Carmen, as well as Tulsa Opera’s statewide tours, covering Vidal in Luisa Fernanda, and singing Major-General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance.  He has also worked as a counselor in Opera New Jersey’s interactive Explorations in Opera children’s camp at which the children wrote and performed their own opera.

 Born in Lawton, OK, Scott is excited to begin pursuing his master’s degree as a fellow with the A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute at the North Carolina School for the Arts in the fall of 2008 with Dr. Marilyn Taylor.