Adrian Packel graduated in 2004 with a degree in ancient Greek and computer science from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where he stumbled into voice lessons quite by accident and soon found himself singing Papageno in a production of The Magic Flute. He is pleased to revisit that very opera twice this month, as Papageno in scenes with the Duxbury Music Festival and as the Speaker in Boston Opera Collaborative's production.

So far this year, Adrian has been seen as the Loudspeaker (The Emperor of Atlantis) with OperaHub, the Commendatore (Don Giovanni) with Boston Opera Collaborative, Ping (Turandot) with Lowell House Opera and Sir Roderic Murgatroyd (Ruddigore) with the MIT Gilbert & Sullivan Players. Additional roles performed include Tiger Brown (The Threepenny Opera), Benoit/Alcindoro (La bohème), Thierry (Dialogues of the Carmelites) and Dick Deadeye (HMS Pinafore). In the fall of 2007, he appeared as the Count Almaviva in The Countess of Seville, BOC's adaptation of the Beaumarchais Figaro trilogy.

Adrian currently serves as Boston Opera Collaborative's webmaster and as a member of their PR/Marketing committee. He studies voice with Charles Blandy and works as a software developer by day.