Season 2024/25
Aiste Benkauskaite
MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2024/25
2024, Opera Recital, Rising Stars, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2024, A studio version of Gounod’s “Faust”, A Devilish Pact, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2024, Oratorio Recital, Unto us a Child is born, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS
2022-23, Mother, Neringa, Tour in Lithuania
2022-23, Austėja, The Tale of the Gifted Heart, Trakai Castle, Lithuania
2022, Mother, 13, Tour in Lithuania
2021, Zita, Gianni Schicchi, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater, Lithuania
COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS
2024, Nurzhamal Ussenbayeva Competition, Astana, Finalist and a Special Prize Diploma
2023, Vincės Jonuškaitės-Zaunienės Competition, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater, First place
2023, Tbilisi Opera Crown Competition, Tbilisi, Semifinalist
EDUCATION
2019 - 2023, BA in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy/qualification of teacher
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater, Lithuania
Charles Buttigieg
MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2024/25
2024, Opera Recital, Rising Stars, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2024, A studio version of Gounod’s “Faust”, A Devilish Pact, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2024, Oratorio Recital, Unto us a Child is born, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS
2023, Enrico, Lucia di Lammermoor, The Mediterranean Opera Studio, Sicily
2022, Mercutio, Romeo et Juliette, Opera Naples, Florida
2022, Morales, Carmen, Teatro Astra Gozo, Malta
2019, Figaro, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Curtis Opera , Philadelphia
2018, Mr. Fogs, Sweeney Todd, Curtis Opera , Philadelphia
2018, Spirit, Dido and Aeneas, Curtis Opera , Philadelphia
2018, Masetto, Don Giovanni, Curtis Opera Philadelphia
2017, Marcello, La Bohème, The Mediterranean Opera Studio, Sicily
COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS
2024, Piero Cappuccilli Competition, Ripabottoni, Semifinalist
2024, Operalia Competition, Cape Town, Quarterfinalist
2022, Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, New York, Encouragement Award
2021, Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, New York, Encouragement, Award
EDUCATION
2018 - 2022, Diploma in Vocal Studies, The Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia
Garrett Evers
MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2024/25
2024, Opera Recital, Rising Stars, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2024, A studio version of Gounod’s “Faust”, A Devilish Pact, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2024, Oratorio Recital, Unto us a Child is born, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS
2024, Gastone, La Traviata, Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe
2024, Spalanzani / Nathanäel, Les contes d’Hoffmann, Palm Beach Opera, West Palm Beach
2023, Mitch, A Streetcar named Desire, Florida State Opera, Florida
2022, Rodolfo, La Bohéme, Bay View Music Festival, Michigan
2021, Tamino, Die Zauberflöte, Florida State Opera, Florida
2020, Bénédict*, Béatrice et Bénédict, Florida State Opera, Florida
*Covid canceled performances
COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS
2024, Houston Grand Opera Competition of Arias, Houston, Semi-Finalist
EDUCATION
2023 - 2024, Apprentice Artist Program for Singers, Palm Beach Opera, Palm Beach
2023 - 2024, Apprentice Program for Singers, Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe
2021 - 2023, MM Vocal Performance, Florida State University, Florida
2017 - 2021, BM Vocal Performance, Florida State University, Florida
Ferdinand Muradyan
MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2024/25
2024, Opera Recital, Rising Stars, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2024, A studio version of Gounod’s “Faust”, A Devilish Pact, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2024, Oratorio Recital, Unto us a Child is born, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS
2024, Colline, La Bohème, National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Yerevan
2023, Commendatore, Don Giovanni, Yerevan Opera Studio, Yerevan
2023, Dulcamara, L’elisir d’amore, National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Yerevan
2022, Areg, Ring of Fire, National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Yerevan
2022, Soloist, Petite Messe Solennelle, Yerevan Opera Studio, Yerevan
2021, Soloist, Requiem, Komitas Music Hall, Yerevan
COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS
2023, Opera Crown, Tbilisi International Voice Competition, Tbilisi, Finalist
2023, “ROMANSIADA” Moscow International Competition, Moscow, Third Prize
EDUCATION
2020 - Present Young Artist Opera Program, National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet after A.Spendarian, Yerevan
2021 - 2023, Master of Arts in Performing Arts, Yerevan State Conservatory after Komitas, Yerevan
2017 - 2021, Bachelor of Arts in Performing Arts, Yerevan State Conservatory after Komitas, Yerevan
Priya Pariyachart
MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2024/25
2024, Opera Recital, Rising Stars, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2024, A studio version of Gounod’s “Faust”, A Devilish Pact, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2024, Oratorio Recital, Unto us a Child is born, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS
2024, ICH, C:\title Labyrinth, Kühlergebäude, Staatstheater Augsburg, Germany
2022, Maria, The sound of music, Chomdong Villa, Huahin, Thailand
2020, Valencienne, Die Lustige Witwe, MACM, Mahidol University, Thailand
COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS
2022, 40th International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition 2022, Jurmala, Semifinalist
2022, Neue Stimmen Competition, Güterslöh, Special Award “Talent Development Prize Mascarade Talent Pathway"
2020, 23th Settrade Music Competition - Undergraduate Category, Mahidol University, Thailand, Second Prize and 1-year scholarship at College of Music
EDUCATION
2024, Master’s degree, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna
2023, Bachelor’s degree, College of Music, Mahidol University, Thailand
2021 - 2022, Ernst Mach Grants Scholarship, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna
2018 - 2021, College of Music, Mahidol University Salaya, Nakhonpratom, Thailand
2015 - 2017, Young Artist Music Voice Performance, College of Music, Mahidol University Salaya, Nakhonpratom, Thailand
Samuele Piccinini
MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2024/25
2024, Opera Recital, Rising Stars, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2024, A studio version of Gounod’s “Faust”, A Devilish Pact, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2024, Oratorio Recital, Unto us a Child is born, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS
Répétiteur
2024, Alcina, Guildhall School Theatre
2024, The Casserole, Guildhall School Theatre
2023, La bella dormente nel bosco, Guildhall School Theatre
2023, Maria Egiziaca, Guildhall School Theatre
COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS
2023, Margery & Frederick Stephen Wright Eisinger Award at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London
2021, X International Piano Competition "Andrea Baldi", Bologna, First Prize
EDUCATION
2023 - 2024, Répétiteur Course, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London
2021 - 2023, Master’s degree, Francesco Venezze Conservatoire, Rovigo
2019 - 2021, Piano Short Course, Pinerolo Music Academy, Pinerolo
Peter H. Smith
MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2024/25
2024, Opera Recital, Rising Stars, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2024, A studio version of Gounod’s “Faust”, A Devilish Pact, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2024, Oratorio Recital, Unto us a Child is born, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS
Répétiteur:
2024, Tosca (excerpts), University of Michigan, Michigan
2023, Orphée aux enfers, University of Michigan, Michigan
2023, Die Zauberflöte, Berlin Opera Academy, Berlin
2023, Ariadne auf Naxos (excerpts), University of Michigan, Michigan
2023, Rigoletto (excerpts), University of Michigan, Michigan
2023, Le nozze di Figaro (excerpts), University of Michigan, Michigan
2022, Les pêcheurs de perles (excerpts), University of Michigan, Michigan
COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS
2019, Music Teachers National Association Competition, North Carolina Division, Winner
2019, Rosen Schaffel Concerto Competition, North Carolina, Finalist
2019, University of North Carolina School of the Arts Concerto Competition, Watson Hall, Winner
EDUCATION
2022-2024, MM Collaborative Piano, University of Michigan, Michigan
2020-2022, MM Piano Performance & Piano Chamber Music, University of Michigan, Michigan
2016-2020, BM Piano Performance, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Michigan
Gabriel Fortunas
MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2023/24
2024, Giovani Voci all’opera, Teatro della Pergola, Florence
2024, opera recital Il poeta e il libertino: due facce di un’era, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2024, Farfallo, Die schweigsame Frau, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
2024, The imperial chief, Madame Butterfly, Opern Festspiele, Heidenheim
2024, Ataliba, Alzira, OpernFestspiele, Heidenheim
2023, Farfallo, Die schweigsame Frau, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
2023, Sarastro/Orator/2° armiger, Die Zauberflöte, Stadttheater, Bad Hall
2023, Sarastro, Die Zauberflöte, Aiserbühne
INGAGGI PRECEDENTI
2023, Don Bartolo, Le Nozze di Figaro, Theater Heilbronn
2023, Capellio, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Kammeroper, Weissenhorn
2022, Don Bartolo, Le Nozze di Figaro, Kammeroper, Monaco
2022, servant, Capriccio, Bayerische Staatsoper, Monaco
2022, Snug, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Wilhelma Theater, Stuttgart
2021, Il commendatore, Don Giovanni, Junge Oper Baden-Württemberg, Mannheim
2021, Il commendatore/Masetto, Don Giovanni, Kammeroper Weissenhorn, Ulm
2019, Dottore, La traviata, Junge Oper Neuburg, Neuburg a.d. Donau
2019, Eremit, Der Freischütz, junge Opera Laiblin, Reutlingen
COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS
2022, “Lions Club” competition, third prize
2022, “August Everding” competition, third prize
EDUCATION
2020-2023, staatliche Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst Stuttgart, “Opera Master”
2015-2020, staatliche Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst Stuttgart, Bachelor Gesang
Sarah Hakobyan
MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2023/24
2024, Giovani Voci all’opera, Teatro della Pergola, Florence
2024, Recital Il poeta e il libertino: due facce di un’era, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2023, Christmas Recital, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2023, Song recital Music al British, British Institute, Florence
2023, Opera recital, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2023, Season opening recital Meet the artists, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS
2023, Zweite Dame, Die Zauberflöte, Teatro delle Muse, Ancona
COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS
2021, “The Armenian Romansiada”, 2nd prize
2021, The Third International Video Competition “21st Century Art”, 1st Prize
2021, IVth International Competition “Daina Miestui”, 1st Prize
EDUCATION
2022, Accademia d’Arte Lirica, Osimo
2016-2022, Komitas State Conservatory, Yerevan
Caterina Meldolesi
MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2023/24
2024, Giovani Voci all’opera, Teatro della Pergola, Firenze
2024, Gala Giovani Voci alla Fenice, Teatro La Fenice, Venezia
2024, recital, Il poeta e il libertino: due facce di un’era, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Firenze
2023, Christmas recital, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Firenze
2023, Luisa Miller, Teatro Sociale di Como, Teatro Fraschini di Pavia
2023, opera recital, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Firenze
2023, recital in onore di Maria Manetti Shrem, Sala delle Muse, Palazzo Tornabuoni, Firenze
2023, Season opening recital Meet the artists, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Firenze
MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2022/23
2023, recital, Scene d’opera: Strauss, Mozart e Verdi, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Firenze (Mascarade Talent Pathway)
PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS
2022, Ines, Il Trovatore, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Florence
2022, Anna, Le Villi, Fondazione Arturo Toscanini, Parma
2022, Aida, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Florence
2022, Lidia, Il Cambise, Theater Kiel, Kiel
2022, Caterina, L’Amico Fritz, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Florence
2021, Mimì, La Bohème, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Florence
2021, Annina, La Traviata, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Florence
2021, Cabri, Betulia Liberata, Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza
2021, La Fanciulla, Siberia di Umberto Giordano, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Florence
2021, Fiordiligi, Così fan tutte, Teatro Goldoni, Florence
COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS
2023 “Voci Verdiane” Competition, Special award “Boris Hristo”, “Future Engagements Awards” (Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Teatro Municipale di Piacenza, Teatro Coccia di Novara)
2023 Aslico Competition, Finalist and role winner for Luisa Miller
2022 Montserrat Caballe Competition, Semifinalist
2022 Vinas Competition, Opernwerkstatt Special Award
2019 Elsa Respighi Lied-Duo Competition, Second Prize
2019 Salice D’Oro Competition, Second Prize, Critics Prize, Engagements Prizes (Parma and Krasnoyarsk)
EDUCATION
2020-2022 Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Young Artist Program
2015-2020 Conservatorio Santa Cecilia, Vocal studies
Daniils Pogoriless
MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2023/24
2024, Giovani Voci all’opera, Teatro della Pergola, Florence
2024, Orchestral concert Giovani voci alla Fenice, Teatro la Fenice, Venice
2024, Opera recital, Il poeta e il libertino: due facce di un’era, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2023, Christmas Recital, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2023, Song recital Musica al British, British Institute, Florence
2023, Opera recital, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2023, Season opening recital Meet the artists, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2022/23
2023, End of Season Opera Recital, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence (Mascarade Talent Pathway)
PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS
2023, Tonio, Pagliacci, Teatro Regio, Parma
2023, Silvio, Pagliacci, Opera studio “Figaro”
2023, Masetto, Don Giovanni, Latvian National Opera
2022, Malatesta, Don Pasquale, Opera studio “Figaro”
2021, Gilfen, Die Abreise di E. d'Albert, Opera studio “Figaro”
COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS
2024, Concorso Lirico Internazionale Ottavio Ziino, “Gabriele Floresta” Prize
2022, 11th Stanisław Moniuszko International Vocalist competition and the Operalia competition by Placido Domingo, participant
2022, Special award Riga Brotherhoods of Blackheads and JVLMA chamber music competition
2022, JVLMA and LMT Annual award for Young Musician
2020, 1st place Latvian Inese Galante Talents competition
2019, 2nd place Jānis Zābers International Vocalist Competition
EDUCATION
2022-2024, Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, MA Vocal studies
2018-2022, Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, BA Vocal studies
Luiza Willert
MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2023/2024
2024, Giovani Voci all’opera, Teatro della Pergola, Florence
2024, Orchestral concert Giovani Voci alla Fenice, Teatro La Fenice, Venice
2024, Opera recital, Il poeta e il libertino: due facce di un’era, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2023, Christmas Recital, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2023, Song recital, Musica al British, British Institute, Florence
2023, Opera recital, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2023, Opera recital, Tributo a Maria Callas, Circolo dell’Unione, Florence
2023, Season opening opera recital, Meet the artists, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS
2023, Fanny Mill, La cambiale di matrimonio, Royal Academy of Music, London
2023, Susanna, Le nozze di Figaro, Royal Academy of Music, London
2022, Anne Trulove, La carriera di un libertino, Royal Academy of Music, London
2022, Rosmene, Imeneo, Royal Academy of Music, London
2022, Sarah/Sun Witch, WITCH, Royal Academy of Music, London
2022, Zerbinetta, Arianna a Nasso (Prologo), Royal Academy of Music, London
2021, La Ciesca, Gianni Schicchi, Royal Academy of Music, London
2020, Monaca, Cartas Portuguesas, Sala São Paulo, San Paolo
2020, Annina, La Traviata, SCAR Jaraguá, Jaraguá do Sul
2019, Bastiana, Bastiano e Bastiana, SCAR Jaraguá, Jaraguá do Sul
2019, 1st lady, Die Zauberflöte, Teatro Bradesco, San Paolo
COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS
2024, 13th Concours International de Belcanto Vincenzo Bellini, 1st place (Grand Prix)
2020, 18th Concurso Brasileiro de Canto Maria Callas, 1st place (Best Soprano)
2020, 1st Concurso Internacional de Canto Linus Lerner (Brazilian edition), tied 1st place (Best soprano)
2020, 5th Concurso Internacional de Canto Linus Lerner, 3rd place in the Women’s category
EDUCATION
2023, Georg Solti Accademia, Solti-Peretti Repetiteurs Course
2022, Georg Solti Accademia, Solti-Peretti Repetiteurs Course
2022, Georg Solti Accademia, Bel Canto Accademia
2021-2023, Royal Academy of Music, Royal Academy Opera
2021, Theatro São Pedro, Opera Studio
2019-2021, Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, Opera Studio
Connor Baiano
He was a recipient of the Colin Murray and Verdun Davies Scholarships, and the Charles Mackerras Award. Recent performances include Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte and Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Connor was a Studio Artist at the Mascarade Opera Studio 2021-2022, as well as for the 2022/23 season.
Floriana Cicìo
MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2023/24
2023, Margherita, Alfredo il Grande (G. Donizetti), “Gaetano Donizetti” Theater, Bergamo
2023, Tavecchi, Il piccolo compositore di musica (G. S. Mayr), “Gaetano Donizetti” Theater, Bergamo
MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2022/23
2023, showcase Giovani voci alla Fenice, Teatro La Fenice, Venezia
2023, Staged Scenes Concert: Strauss, Mozart and Verdi, Mascarade Opera Foundation, Florence
2022, Christmas Recital, Mascarade Opera Foundation, Florence
MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2021/22
2022, Opera Night Recital, Mascarade Opera Foundation, Florence
MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2020/21
2021, Giovani voci alla Fenice, Teatro La Fenice, Venezia
PREVIOUS ENGAMENTS
2022, Strega Mutocieca, I Kattivissimi, Luglio Musicale Trapanese Theater
2022, Zerlina, Don Giovanni, Teatro Comunale di Carpi
2021, Zerlina, Don Giovanni, “Eleonora Duse” Theater, Bologna
2020, Clorinda, La Cenerentola, “Luciano Pavarotti” Theater, Modena
2019, Ocsana/La Zarina, La Notte di Natale,“Luciano Pavarotti” Theater, Modena
2019, Ocsana/La Zarina, La Notte di Natale, Teatro dell’Opera Giocosa, Savona
2019, Soprano I Soloist, Stabat Mater (Rossini), Europe Philarmonic Orchestra, Todi
COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS
2023, “Maria Caniglia” competition, Sulmona, Italy, 2nd prize
2021, “Giuseppe Di Stefano” competition,Trapani, Italy
2021, Premio Città di Trapani/Premio Sorriso di Silvia; “A. Belli” competition, Finalist
2019, "Fausto Ricci" competition, Viterbo, Italy, “Germoglio d’arte” award
EDUCATION
2022-2023, Associate Artist at Mascarade Opera, Florence
2020-2021, Resident Artist at Mascarade Opera Studio, Florence
2020, Bachelor of DAMS (Discipline delle Arti, della Musica e dello Spettacolo), Università degli Studi Palermo
2019, Resident Artist at Corso di Alto Perfezionamento per Cantanti Lirici, Teatro Comunale di Modena “Luciano Pavarotti”
William Desbiens
MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2023/24
2023/24, Figaro, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Landestheater Linz, Linz (theatre debut)
2023/24, Figaro (role debut), Il barbiere di Siviglia, Theater und Orchester Heidelberg, Heidelberg
2023, Christmas Recital, Mascarade Opera Foundation, Florence
2023, recital, Meet the artists, Mascarade Opera Foundation, Florence
2023, Ben, Il telefono, Opéra de Québec, Québec
2023, Pantalone / Farfarello, L'amore delle tre melarance, Heidelberg Theater, Heidelberg
MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2022/2023
2023, End of Season Opera Recital, Mascarade Opera Foundation, Florence
2023, recital, Scene d’opera: Strauss, Mozart e Verdi, Mascarade Opera Foundation, Florence
2022, Christmas Recital, Mascarade Opera Foundation, Florence
2022, recital Music at the British, British Institute, Florence
MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2021/2022
2022, recital Music at the British: The Clown and the Barber, British Institute, Florence
2022,The Bear: Extravaganza in one act, Mascarade Opera Foundation, Florence
2022, Faust, Opéra de Québec, Québec
2021, recital, Histoire Naturelles, Mascarade Opera Foundation, Florence
2021, recital, Music squared: The power of the ensemble, Mascarade Opera Foundation, Florence
2021, Opening Season Recital Meet the Artists, Mascarade Opera Foundation, Florence
2021, recital, An evening of songs and arias by Verdi, Berlioz, Ravel and Mozart, Palazzo Tornabuoni, Florence
2021, Fiorello, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Opéra de Québec, Québec
PREVIOUS ENGAMENTS
2020, Nicola Fedora, Teatro Grattacielo
2020, Schaunard, La Boheme, Mannes Opera
2020, cindoro, La Boheme, Mannes Opera
2019, Marquis de La Force, Dialogues of the Carmelites, VOICExperience
COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS
2022 Vincerò World Singing CompetitionNaples, Italy, Finalist
2022 Ciopera – Paris Opera Competition,Palais Garnier (Paris), Finalist
2021 James Toland Vocal Arts OnlineDirector’s award
2021 Carolyn Bailey and Dominick ArgentoVocal Competition Online Final
EDUCATION
2023-24, Resident Artist at Mascarade Opera
2022-23, Resident Artist at Mascarade OperaStudio
2017-21, Mannes School of Music, BA Voice
Avishka Edirisinghe
MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2023/24
2024, Chorus and Repetiteur Work, Glyndebourne
2024, Music assistant, Giovani Voci all’Opera, Teatro La Pergola, Firenze
Répétiteur:
2024, Orchestral concert Giovani voci alla Fenice, Teatro La Fenice, Venice
2024, Recital Il poeta e il libertino: due facce di un’era, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2023, Christmas Recital, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2023, Recital Tributo a Maria Callas, Circolo dell’Unione, Florence
2023, Season opening recital, Meet the artists, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS
2023, Assistant Chorus Master, Semele/The Rake’s Progress, Glyndebourne
2023, YA Répétiteur, Hänsel und Gretel, Opera Holland Park, London
2023, Conductor, The Six of Calais/Ruth (Philip Hagemann), Pegasus Opera Company, London
2023, Chorus Master, Carmen/Akhnaten/Die Tote Stadt, English National Opera
2022, Chorus Master, La Boheme/Tosca/The Yeomen of the Guard/It’s a Wonderful Life (Heggie)/Gloriana, English National Opera, London
2022, Répétiteur/Assistant Conductor, The Aspern Papers (Philip Hagemann), Pegasus Opera Company, London
2021, Répétiteur, L’enfant Prodigue (Debussy), Pegasus Opera Company, London
COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS
2022, “Kathleen Ferrier” Competition, Pianists Prize
2022, “RCM Lies Askonas”, Pianists Prize
2022, “RCM Schumann” Competition, 2nd Pianist Prize
2021, “RCM Lieder” Competition, Pianists Prize
2021, “Leeds Lieder Festival/Schubert Institute”, Institute Prize
EDUCATION
2021-2023, Royal College of Music, MMus in Collaborative Piano (with a 2nd study in Conducting)
2017-2021, Royal College of Music/Imperial College London, BSc in Physics and Music Performance
Manon Gleizes
Matthew Gibson
Aaron Godfrey-Mayes
British tenor Aaron Godfrey-Mayes was a member of Royal Academy Opera under the tutelage of singing teacher Mark Wildman and vocal coach Iain Ledingham. During his time at the Academy, Aaron won numerous awards including the Royal Academy of Music Pavarotti Prize. Aaron was also an Alvarez Young Artist with Garsington Opera. In the summer of 2022, Aaron performed the role of Ferrando in Così fan tutte as part of the Amersham Festival of Music, and was the third prize winner at the 2022 Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition. He performed the role of Don Ramiro in Nevill Holt Opera’s production of La Cenerentola in the summer of 2023 and has joined the Internationale Opernstudio at Staatstheater Hamburg in the autumn. Aaron was at Mascarade Opera as an emerging artist for the 2021/22 and 2022/23 seasons.
Megumi Hata
MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2023/24
2024, Music assistant, Giovani Voci all’Opera, Teatro La Pergola, Firenze
Répétiteur:
2024, Orchestral concert Giovani voci alla Fenice, Teatro La Fenice, Venice
2024, recital Il poeta e il libertino: due facce di un’era Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2023, Christmas Recital, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2023, Opera recital Mascarade, Florence
2023, Season opening recital, Meet the artists, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS
2023, Don Giovanni, Theater Altenburg Gera Thüringen, Altenburg
2022, “Eight Songs for the Mad King” from Peter Maxwell Davies, Deutsches Nationaltheater, Weimar
2022, Die Fledermaus, Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, Weimar
2019, Le nozze di Figaro, Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, Weimar
EDUCATION
2021-2023, Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, postgraduate course (Konzertexamen Studium) song accompaniment studies. Opera coaching studies as a secondary school subject.
2019-2021, Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, advanced training course (Weiterbildungsstudium) studies in musical accompaniment.
2015-2018, Tokyo University of the Art, MA Pianosolo studies
2011-2014, Tokyo University of the Art, BA Pianosolo studies
Xavier Hetherington
After reading Classics at St John’s College, Cambridge, British tenor Xavier Hetherington took his Master’s degree at the Royal College of Music as a Their Serene Highnesses Dr Prince Donatus and Princess Heidi Von Hohenzollern Scholar. He graduated in 2020 with Distinction and moved to the Mascarade Opera Studio (MOS) in Florence for nine months, then was accepted into the Centre de Perfeccionament at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, where he trained for 6 months. Xavier has benefited from the generous support of the King-Farlow Trust, Mr Simon Groves, Mr and Mrs McGowan Stuart and Mr John Rae and is an Opera Prelude Young Artist.
Recent engagements include Don José Carmen (Waterperry Opera Festival); Scrofulous/Toady/Seer/Saul in a new Purcell/Pountney project Masque of Might, Shepherd and cover Orpheus (Monteverdi) and Mini Vixen (all Opera North); L'Incoronazione di Poppea with Harry Bicket and The English Concert Orchestra (Madrid and Barcelona); Ahasuerus in Handel's Esther (Solomon's Knot, Wigmore Hall, Halle Händel-Festspiele and Musikfestspiele Saar); Mozart's Requiem (Wurzburg Mozart Festival); Tenor solo in Singalong Messiah (Reisopera); Lieutenant Kotler A Child in Striped Pyjamas (Echo Ensemble); Verdi’s Requiem (Royal Albert Hall); concerts with Opera Prelude and the Royal Philharmonic Society, Shepherd La liberazione Di Ruggiero Dall’isola D’Alcina and cover Ferrando Cosí fan tutte (Longborough Festival); an opera gala at the 20th anniversary of the Encuentro de la Música in the Palacio de Festivales, Santander; Lensky Eugene Onegin, Tebaldo I Capuleti e i Montecchi and Don Ramiro La Cenerentola in a scenes showcase at La Fenice; and the trio from Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti at the Palau de les Arts, Valencia.
Marianna Hovhannisyan
Hovhannes Karapetyan
MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2023/24
2024, Giovani Voci all’opera, Teatro della Pergola, Florence
2024, Orchestral concert Giovani voci alla Fenice, Teatro la Fenice, Venice
2024, recital Il poeta e il libertino: due facce di un’era, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2023, Christmas Recital, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2023, recital Tributo a Maria Callas, Circolo dell’Unione, Florence
PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS
2023, Hitman, Macbeth, Festival of Salzburg, Salzburg
2023, Figaro, Le nozze di Figaro, Royal Academy Opera, London
2022, Father Trulove, The Rake’s Progress, Royal Academy Opera, London
2022, Leporello, Don Giovanni, Yerevan Opera Studio, Yerevan
2022, Argenio, Imeneo, Royal Academy Opera, London
2022, Inquisitore 1, Witch, Royal Academy Opera, London
2021, title role in Don Pasquale, Yerevan Opera Studio, Yerevan
COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS
2023, Operalia Competition, Capetown, semifinalist
EDUCATION
2021-2023 Royal Academy of Music of London, Opera diploma
2014-2018 Komitas State Conservatory, BA, Yerevan
Aebh Kelly
MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2023/2024
2024, Rosina (debut), Barbiere di Siviglia, Lyric Opera Ireland, Dublin
2024, Flora (debut), La Traviata, Irish National Opera House, Wexford
2024, Giovani Voci alla Fenice, Teatro La Fenice, Venice
2023, Olga (debut), Eugene Onegin, Theater Heidelberg, Heidelberg
MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2022/23
2023, End of Season Opera Recital, Mascarade Opera Foundation, Florence
2023, Staged Scenes Concert: Strauss, Mozart e Verdi, Mascarade Opera Foundation, Florence
2022, Christmas Recital, Mascarade Opera Foundation, Florence
2022, Opera Scenes Concert: Puccini, Massenet e Donizetti, Mascarade Opera Foundation, Florence
2022, Opera Scenes Concert: Stravinsky, Strauss, Verdi e Bizet, Mascarade Opera Foundation, Florence
2022, Opera Recital, Circolo dell’Unione, Florence
2022, Madame Popova (debut), L'Orso, Lerici Music Festival, Lerici
2022, recital for Amitié sans Frontières, Mascarade Opera Foundation, Florence
2022, Opening Season Concert: Meet the Artists, Mascarade Opera Foundation, Florence
MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2021/22
2022, recital Music at the British: The Clown and the Barber, British Institute, Florence
2022, recital The Bear: Extravaganza in one act, Mascarade Opera Foundation, Florence
2022, recital, Opera Scenes, Cantina Antinori nel Chianti Classico, San Casciano V.P.
2022, recital, Opera Scenes, Circolo dell’unione, Florence
2021, Opening Season Concert: Meet the Artists, Mascarade Opera Foundation, Florence.
COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS
2023, Clip International Singing Competition, finalist
2022, Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition, Second Prize
EDUCATION
2022/23, Resident Artist at Mascarade Opera
2021/22, Resident Artist at Mascarade Opera
2020/21, Irish National Opera’s ABL Aviation Opera Studio
2018/20, BA, Royal Irish Academy of Music
Gabrielė Kupšytė
Matteo Londero
Faik Mansuroğlu
Turkish Baritone Faik Mansuroglu was born in Hatay, Turkey in 1990. He completed his B. Mus. degree in 2017 at Istanbul State University Conservatory of Music studying voice with Lynn Trepel Çağlar. After graduation he became a soloist of the ensemble at Mersin State Opera and Ballet in Turkey. There in 2018 he sang the role of Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera and in the 2018/2019 season among the main roles he sang the role of Escamillo (Carmen) and the oratorio Carmina Burana
(Bariton Solo). There in 2019/2020 He sang Belcore (L'Elisir D’Amore) at Mersin State Opera and Ballet and Figaro (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) at Ankara State Opera and Ballet. Earlier opera experiences includes
Faure Requiem (Bariton Solo), Guglielmo (Cosi Fan Tutte) at the Istanbul Sureyya Opera House in 2017 and Herr Fluth (Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor) at Istanbul Leyla Gencer Culture Center in
2016.
His awards include 2nd prize in Izmir, Turkey's 9. National Young Soloist (Student category) in 2016 and in 2017 he won 2nd prize in Izmir, Turkey's 10 . Professional Young Soloist Competition. In
2018 in the Leyla Gencer 9th Voice Competition he received the Royal Opera House Jette Parker Young Artists Program Special Award. In 2019 Maria Kraja 17th International Voice Competition he received 3rd prize. In 2019, he was awarded the ’’Best Young Generation Singer of the Year Award’’ by the Semiha Berksoy Foundation.
The summer of 2019 he was selected to be one of the fully funded 12 singers in the Georg Solti Bel Canto Accademia in Tuscany, Italy. In summer, 2018 he was awarded the only full scholarship, Dr. Russell Young Memorial Scholarship, to participate in the Mediterranean Opera
Studio and Festival in Caltagirone, Italy. There he furthered his vocal training with Jack LiVigni, Nelly Miricioiu, and Carlos Conde and sang the roles of Count Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro) and Belcore (L'Elisir D'Amore). He has participated in masterclasses with Salvatore Fisichella, Antoine Palloc, David Gowland, Brian Dickie, Silvano Zabeo and David Walsh. In August, 2019 he performed the role of Count Almaviva from Le Nozze di Figaro in the New Generation Festival in Florence, Italy.
Faik Mansuroğlu was a member of Mascarade Opera from 2022 to 2024. Faik's place at Mascarade is generously supported by Maria Manetti Shrem. In June 2024 he took part as a guest artist at Andrea Bocelli 30 th Anniversary Concert held at Beşiktaş Tüpraş Stadium. Faik is currently ensemble member of Ankara State Opera, where he sang many of the leading lyric baritone roles, most recently Belcore in L’Elisir D'Amore.
Grisha Martirosyan
Armenian baritone Grisha Martirosyan graduated with an MA from the Yerevan State Conservatoire in 2021. The student productions of opera scenes included roles such as the title role in Eugene Onegin, Belcore in L’elisir d’amore, Dr Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Germont in La traviata and Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor. Before becoming an emerging artist at Mascarade Opera, Grisha was a Studio Artist at the Mascarade Opera Studio 2021-2022. Grisha was the first prize winner at the 2022 Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition and second prize winner at the Magda Olivero International Opera Competition. He spent the summer of 2023 with Salzburg Festival’s Young Singers Project and subsequently joined the Jette Parker Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Yuchen Pan
MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2023/2024
2024, Giovani Voci all’opera, Teatro della Pergola, Florence
2024, recital, Il poeta e il libertino: due facce di un’era, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2023, Christmas Recital, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2023, Song recital, Musica al British, British Institute, Florence
2023, Opera recital, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
2023, Season opening recital, Meet the artists, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence
PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS
2022, Rodolfo, La Bohème, MOSF Fest, Most
2022, Duca di Mantova, Rigoletto, MOSF Fest, Most
2018, Lenskij, Eugene Onegin, Russian Opera Workshop AVA Philadelphia
2018, Chekalinskij, Queen of Spades, Russian Opera Workshop AVA Philadelphia
EDUCATION
2019-2022 Brooklyn College di New York, MM Music
2013-2019 Temple University di Philadelphia, BM Music
Sophie Sparrow
New Zealand soprano Sophie Sparrow studied at Royal Academy Opera with Kate Paterson, Marcus van den Akker and Jonathan Papp where she was supported by the Fishmongers’ Company, Kiwi Music Trust and a Help Musicians Sybil Tutton Opera Award. Opera roles while at Royal Academy Opera included, among others, Sarah/Sun Witch in Freya Waley-Cohen’s recently commissioned opera WITCH, Tytania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Nella (Gianni Schicchi), Belinda (Dido and Aeneas), Despina (Così fan tutte), and Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) with Opera Otago. In 2021, Sophie was awarded the ROSL Music Competition Tait Memorial Prize. She was also a Kathleen Ferrier semi-finalist that year, and in 2023 she reached the ROSL Vocal semi-finals. Sophie worked in the 2022 Glyndebourne Festival Chorus and covered Barbarina in Glyndebourne’s Le nozze di Figaro. She joined Mascarade Opera as an emerging artist for the 2022/23 season.
Paweł Trojak
Polish baritone Paweł Trojak began his vocal studies at the Tarnów Music School. In 2020, he graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin Music University in Warsaw where he studied with Jadwiga Rappé. He is also a member of the Opera Academy of the Polish National Opera at the Teatr Wielki.
Paweł has won prizes at a number of international competitions, including the first prize and three special prizes at the 2019 International Antonina Campi Vocal Competition, a special prize at the 2019 International Stanisław Moniuszko Vocal Competition, the first prize and six special prizes at the 2018 Bell’Arte Competition, the first prize and a special prize at the 2017 Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský Competition, the second prize and five special prizes at the Ada Sari Competition, the first prize at the 2016 Iuventus Canti Competition and the first prize at the 2016 Rudolf Petráka Competition.
Paweł made his Polish National Opera debut in April 2017 as Jonek in Jan Stefani’s The Supposed Miracle, or Kracovians and Highlanders and in January 2018 he took over the leading roles of Bardos and Wawrzyniec in this same production. In June 2018 he returned to the Polish National Opera to sing Le Dancaïre in Carmen.
In July 2017, Paweł took part in a concert performance of Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane under Fabrice Bollon at the Freiburg Theatre. The performance was also recorded and released on CD. In the summer of 2018, he was a participant in the Young Singers Project of the Salzburg Festival where he made his debut as the Second Nazarene in Salome. In June 2019 he sang Papageno in Die Zauberflöte at the Warsaw Chamber Opera.
Polixeni Tziouvaras
Recent credits include I due Foscari (Pisana) and Romeo et Juliette (Gertrude) at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Giovani voci alla Fenice at Teatro La Fenice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hermia) with Chautauqua Institute, Ralph Vaughn Williams’ Serenade to Music at Carnegie Hall, and I due Timidi (Signora Guidotti), La Cenerentola (Tisbe), Così fan Tutte (Dorabella & Despina), Rorem’s A Childhood Miracle (Emma), The Cunning Little Vixen (Dog), L’incoronazione di Poppea (Nerone), and Le Roi L’a Dit (Marquis de LaBluette), all with Manhattan School of Music.
Ms. Tziouvaras has received many awards, most recently as a finalist in the Mildred Miller Voice Competition, the Richard F. Gold Career Gran, the Encouragement Award in memory of Alan M. Ades (George London Foundation). Upcoming engagements include Ayda: Amor Fatale at the Maggio as well as a summer concert series in Majorca.
Ángel Vargas
Puerto-Rican tenor Ángel Vargas was a National Semi-finalist at the Metropolitan Opera’s Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition in 2022. At the Houston Grand Opera’s Eleanor McCollum Competition, he won the Ana María Martínez Encouragement Award. He also completed his second season with the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as a Gerdine Young Artist where he sang in the world première of Huang Ruo’s An American Soldier and covered the role of the Duca di Mantua in their production of Rigoletto. As a fellowship recipient at the Aspen Music Festival, he sang Spalanzani in Les contes d’Hoffmann and covered the title role in 2022. He made his role and house debut as Don José in a Landestheater Linz Opera Studio production of Peter Brook’s version of La tragédie de Carmen in 2022. In the summer of 2023 Ángel performed at the Aspen Music Festival in the new opera Bel Canto by Lopez. He is currently a resident artist at Minnesota Opera.
He is an alumnus of Mascarade Opera.
Henry Websdale
Henry Websdale is an opera répétiteur and conductor, who has lived and worked across Europe in some of the most renowned opera houses in the world. He studied and trained at the University of Cambridge and Royal Academy of Music in the UK, as well as at the Mascarade Opera Studio and Georg Solti Accademia in Italy. He has worked as a répétiteur and conductor at Oper Graz in Austria and the Bayerische Staatsoper in Germany, as well as working as a répétiteur at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Glyndebourne. In 2024, he will take up a position on the permanent staff of the Semperoper Dresden.
Highlights of his time at Oper Graz included conducting performances of ‘Ein Hauch von Venus’ (Kurt Weill), and working on the Austrian premiere of ‘Morgen und Abend’ (Georg Friedrich Haas) with conductor, Roland Kluttig. In 2022 he made his debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper playing fortepiano for a production of ‘Le nozze di Figaro’ with Christopher Moulds. He then worked on a production of ‘Les Troyens’ (Berlioz) with Daniele Rustioni.
He has worked as a répétiteur at Glyndebourne since 2021, including playing for productions of ‘Katya Kabanova’, ‘Don Pasquale’, ‘Don Giovanni’, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘L’elisir d’amore’, with conductors such as Robin Ticciati, Ben Glassberg, Evan Rogister and Dalia Stasevska. He has also worked the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, most recently on a production of ‘La Forza del Destino’ with Sir Mark Elder.
Alexandria Wreggelsworth
including an array of song recitals at GSMD, the Barbican Centre, Oxford University, Song in the City and the St Marylebone Festival.
Kristina Yorgova
Lauren Young
Scottish mezzo soprano Lauren Young is a Mascarade Opera Studio alumna for the 2020/2021 season. She is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Alexander Gibson Opera School (RCS). Lauren is a recipient of an Independent Opera Voice Scholarship and Fellowship. She was the winner of the Clonter Opera Prize and the Joaninha Trust Award in 2020 and runner up in the Ye Cronies Opera Award 2019 and 2020. A keen recitalist, Lauren enjoys a close collaborative relationship with pianist José Javier Ucendo, whom with she was a finalist in the Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform 2020, Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2020 and won the Elgar-Spedding Memorial Lieder Prize at RCS. Operatic experience includes Baba The Turk The Rake’s Progress, Angelina La Cenerentola (British Youth Opera); Erste Mägde Elektra, Flosshilde Das Rheingold (Edinburgh Players Opera Group); Lucretia The Rape of Lucretia, Zita Gianni Schicchi, Sorceress Dido and Aeneas, Jade Boucher Dead Man Walking (UK Staged Premiere), La Prieure Dialogues des Carmélites; Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro (RCS). Upcoming engagements include covering with the English National Opera in their 2021/2022 season. Concert highlights having included Duruflé Requiem, Bach B Minor Mass and St. John Passion, Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle and Pergolesi Stabat Mater. She made her Wigmore Hall debut in October 2020 as part of the Independent Opera Scholar’s Recital. Upcoming engagements include singing the alto solos in Handel’s Messiah at her Cadogan Hall debut in April 2022. Lauren has participated in masterclasses with renowned artists such as Dame Sarah Connolly, Sir Thomas Allen, Mariella Devia, Susan Bullock, Karen Cargill and Andrea Baker.
Ziga Copi
EDUCATION
2024 - present - Talent Pathway Artist at Mascarade Opera
2021 - ongoing - Conservatory of Music and Balet Ljubljana
ROLES PERFORMED
2024 - San Giovanni, La Resurrezione, Finland
2022 - Mass No. 2 in G major, D 167, Slovenia
COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS
April 2024 - Split International competition “Daleki akordi”, 1st prize
March 2024 - SPEVslam competition, 1st prize
November 2023 - Beograd International competition “Lazar Jovsnović” with special “Jadranka Jovanović” prize, 1st prize
May 2023 - Montenegro International competition “Bruna Špiler”, 1st prize
May 2023 - Zagreb International competition “Stojan Stojanov Gančev”, 2nd prize
2022 - SPEVslam competition, 2nd prize
2022 - National Slovene “TEMSIG” competition, 1st prize at Category I
2021 - IMMCC Maribor, 1st prize Category II
2021 - International Solo Singing Competition Aegis Carminis
2021 - in Category I, 3rd prize, and special awards: for the best male soloist, for the best performance of a composition written between 1946-1990, for impressive stage presence, and musical expression
FUTURE ENGAGEMENTS
2024 - Eurimaco, Claudio Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, Italy
2024 - Spirit, Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Italy
2024 - San Giovanni, La Resurrezione, Kuusankoskitalo
Marta Miccoli
EDUCATION
2024 - present - Talent Pathway Artist at Mascarade Opera
2023 - ongoing - II level Diploma in Vocal Studies at Arrigo Boito’s Conservatoire, Parma
2020-2023 - I level Diploma in Vocal Studies at Arrigo Boito’s Conservatoire, Parma
ROLES PERFORMED
2023 - Cherubino, Le nozze di Figaro, Cascina Paù and Stresa Festival, Orta
2023 - Flora, La Traviata, Parma Lirica, Parma
COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS
2024 - International Opera Competition “Franco Ghitti”, 3 prize
2024 - International Singing Competition “Giovan Battista Rubini”, 1st prize
2024 - Giulio Neri Competition, Finalist
2023 - Voci all’Opera Competition Giancarlo Aliverta, Role winner (Cherubino)
2023 - Concert prize Mario del Monaco
2023 - Gaetano Zinetti International Competition, Special prize
2023 - Parma Lirica, 3rd prize and Critics’ award
Season 2022/23
- Gabrielė Kupšytė, Jette Parker Artists Programme, 2022/23 and 2023/24 seasons
- Pawel Trojak, Opéra Studio of Lyons, 2022/23 season
- Polixeni Tziouvaras, Accademia del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, 2022/23 season
- Henry Websdale, Solorepetitor mit Dirigierverpflichtung, Graz Opera, 2021/22 and 2022/23 seasons
- Kristina Yorgova, Emerging Artists Répétiteur, Scottish Opera, 2022/23 season
- Aaron Godfrey-Mayes, 3rd prize, Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition, Dublin, 2022
- Grisha Martirosyan, 1st prize and public prize, Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition, Dublin, 2022
- Aebh Kelly, 2nd prize, Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition, Dublin, 2022
- Ángel Vargas, Don José, Carmen (Peter Brook version), Landestheater Linz, 2022
- Matteo Londero, assistant conductor, La fille du régiment, Teatro La Fenice, Venice, 2022
- William Desbiens, finalist, Vincerò Singing Competition, Naples, 2022
- Aaron Godfrey-Mayer, finalist, Vinas Singing Competition, Milan, 2022
- Grisha Martirosyan, 2nd prize and public prize, Magda Olivero International Opera Competition, Milan, 2022
- Matteo Londero, répétiteur, L’elisir d’amore, Teatro lirico di Cagliari, 2022
- William Desbiens, Pantalone and Farfarello, Lieben zu den drei Orangen, Theater Heidelberg, 2023
- Grisha Martirosyan, 1st prize, Lithuanian Virgilijus Noreika Singing Competition, Vilnius, 2023
- Grisha Martyrosian, Special Prize Oper Koln, Special Prize Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Belvedere Singing Competition, Düsseldorf, 2023
- Aaron Godfrey-Mayes, Don Ramiro (role debut), La Cenerentola, Nevill Holt Opera, Leicestershire, 2023
- Matteo Londero, répétiteur, Carmen, Teatro di Cagliari, 2023
- Matthew Gibson, répétiteur, Bayreuth Festspiele, Bayreuth, 2023
- Floriana Cicio, Margherita, Alfredo il Grande, Bottega Donizetti, 2023
- Marianna Hovhannisyan, Eva Klenitz Prize, CLIP Portofino, Portofino, 2023
- Ángel Vargas, Fleming Artist, General Alfredo, Jimmy Lopez’s new opera Bel Canto, Aspen Festival, 2023
- Grisha Martirosyan, Salzburg Young Singer, Salzburg Festspiele, Salzburg, 2023
Season 2023/24
- Matthew Gibson, répétiteur, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Mannheim, 2023/24 and 2024/25 seasons
- Aaron Godfrey-Mayes, Hamburg International Opera Studio, 2023/24 season
- Grisha Martirosyan, Jette Parker Artists Programme, 2023/24 season
- Aebh Kelly, Olga (role debut), Onegin, Theater Heidelberg, 2023/24 season
- Caterina Meldolesi, special prize Boris Hristov, Voci Verdiane Competition, Busseto, 2023
- Caterina Meldolesi, Luisa (role debut), Luisa Miller, Teatro Sociale di Como, Como, 2023/24 season
- Floriana Cicio, Margherita, Alfredo il Grande, Bottega Donizetti, Bergamo, 2023
- Gabriel Klitzing, Farfallo (role debut), Schweigsame Frau, Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, 2023/2024 season
- Floriana Cicio, Frasquita (role debut), Carmen, Teatro Politeama, Lecce, 2023
- William Desbiens, Figaro (role debut), Il barbiere di Siviglia, Theater Heidelberg, 2023/2024 season
- William Desbiens, Figaro, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Landestheater Linz, Linz, 2023/2024 season
- Aebh Kelly, Flora Bervoix (role debut), La traviata, Irish National Opera, Dublin, 2023/24 season
- Matteo Londero, répétiteur, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, 2023/24 season
Mariam Suleiman
EDUCATION
2024 - Master’s Degree in Vocal Studies, Santa Cecilia Conservatoire, Rome
2023-24 - Fabbrica Young Artist Program, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Rome
2022 - Bachelor’s Degree in Vocal Studies, Santa Cecilia Conservatoire, Rome
ROLES PERFORMED
2023-24 - Cenerentola, La Cenerentola, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma
2023-24 - Jano, Jenufa, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma
2023-24, Papagena, Die Zauberflöte, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma
2023 - Bubikopf, Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Teatro Palladium, Reate Festival
2022-23 - Annina, La Traviata, Bunka Kaikan Tokyo (Teatro dell’Opera di Roma tournée)
2022-23 - Annina, La Traviata, Caracalla Festival
2023, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma
COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS
2024 - Neue Stimmen International Singing Competition, Gütersloh, Mascarade Opera Talent Pathway Prize
2024 - Tebaldi-Gigli-Corelli Competition, Pesaro, Semifinalist
2023 - Fausto Ricci Competition, Viterbo, Semifinalist
2022 - Opera Competition, Moscow, Semifinalist
2019 - Ottavio Ziino Competition, Rome, Semifinalist
Season 2024/25
Luiza Willert
- Luiza Willert, 1st Prize, 13th International Belcanto Competition Vincenzo Bellini, Paris, France
- Daniils Pogoriless, "Gabriele Foresta Prize", Concorso Lirico Internazionale Ottavio Ziino 2024, Rome, Italy
- Daniils Pogoriless, Belcore (role debut), L' elisir d'amore, Latvian National Opera 2024/25 season
- Gabriel Fortunas, Dottore (role debut), Macbeth, Theater Heidelberg 2024/25 season
- Caterina Meldolesi, Isolde (role debut), La Fiaba di Tristano (abridged version of Tristan und Isolde), Teatro del maggio Musicale Fiorentino 2024/25 season
- Caterina Meldolesi, Maurya, (role debut), Mother (World Premiere), Teatro Municipale di Piacenza 2024/25 season
- Caterina Meldolesi, Tosca (role debut), Tosca, Festival Puccini Dvorak, Palma de Mallorca