Tenor Zachary Wilder is the descendant of a large family of Jewish immigrants, musicians who fled their small Lithuanian shtetl of Panevezys to escape the persecution of the brutal pogroms in the late 19th Century. Emigrating to America, the Steinfelds settled and flourished in their new home of Brooklyn. In Brooklyn Suite, Wilder reimagines his great, great uncles’ home gatherings with their instruments of guitars, woodwinds and strings, the evening evolving into a dizzyingly varied repertoire of Yiddish operetta, chamber music, Gershwin, Berlin, tin pan alley and musical theater tunes. Famed producer and musician Rob Mounsey — a six-time Grammy Award-nominee and two-time Emmy Award-winner — helps Wilder bring this vision to life, each piece becoming the echo of a story shared between nostalgia, invention, and transmission. Highly sought-after for his interpretations of 17th and 18th century repertoire, Zachary Wilder makes his debut with Haymarket Opera Company in 2026 as Monteverdi’s Orfeo.