JOE STROPPEL, lyric tenor, 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.

Joe was making loud noises fresh out of the womb, but he started taking voice lessons at the age of twelve. 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 currently lives on Long Island, and he freelances in and around New York City. He spent over three years of his undergrad at Hunter College as an assistant to accomplished conductor Michael Sheetz. Joe is a two-time Emile Anders award winner for vocal excellence in Dr. Sheetz's collegiate ensembles, and he was 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. 

Joe's 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.

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Joe's solo act, available for booking around Long Island / & the greater NYC region, explores his interest in musical theatre with an emphasis on Golden Age Broadway and early to mid-20th century popular music.