Songs of the Golden Age, performed by Tenor Joe Stroppel at Great Neck Library

We invite you to come and join us for an unforgettable afternoon of music at the Great Neck Library! Joe Stroppel, a tenor with a passion for Golden Age Broadway and American popular songs, will present a repertoire of classic hits and lesser-known gems from Golden Age Broadway and early- to mid-20^th-century popular music.

Joe Stroppel was born and raised in Glen Cove, NY. His father, Frederick Stroppel, is a playwright, screenwriter, and opera enthusiast, and his mother, Liz, is an early childhood music educator. His late grandmother, Betty Kash, was a cabaret singer & theatre director in New York City. His first major theatrical experience was a regional teen production of Les Misérables - in which he played the lead role of Jean Valjean - and he's been performing ever since.

Joe spent over three years of his undergrad at Hunter College as an assistant to accomplished conductor Michael Sheetz. A two-time Emile Anders award winner for vocal excellence in Dr. Sheetz's collegiate ensembles, he was also a 2024 winner of the Hunter Symphony Orchestra's Aria Competition. Joe also sings as a choral scholar at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Sea Cliff, NY.

His solo work in oratorio includes performances of Bach’s Magnificat, Actus Tragicus, and Christmas Oratorio, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Requiem, Vivaldi’s Magnificat and Brahms’ Neue Liebeslieder. He sang the tragic title role in Carissimi’s Jephte, and he performed with the American Opera Project in the world premiere of Precipice. In 2024, Joe portrayed the villainous Brahmasura in Mohini during the Hunter College Pocket Opera festival, and he traveled to the International Summer Opera Festival of Morelia in Mexico, where he sang Remendado in Bizet’s Carmen. Joe performed as Miss Trunchbull in MATILDA: The Musical at the Jeanne Rimsky Theater in March 2025. That summer, he sang as Orpheus in Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld, and he understudied the role of Tobias in Opera Maine's production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. Learn more about Joe at joestroppeltenor.com

The concert will take place at the Great Neck Library, located at 159 Bayview Avenue, Great Neck, on Sunday, April 26, at 2:00 p.m. Registration is required. Great Neck cardholders and residents can register online, in person, or via phone. Non-residents are welcome as walk-ins, subject to space availability. For more information, please call Great Neck Library at (516) 466-8055 or email adultprogramming@greatnecklibrary.org.