The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions is an annual singing

Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

 competition sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera

Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company, located in New York City. Originally founded in 1880, the company gave its first performance on October 22, 1883. The company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as general manager...

. Established in 1954, its purpose is to discover, assist, promote, and develop young opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

 singers. The competition is held in four stages: Districts, Regional, Semi-Final, and Final competitions. Each stage is judged by a panel of representatives from the Metropolitan Opera. There are a total of 14 Regional competitions within the United States and Canada and 41 District competitions within each Region. Winners from the District competition compete in Regionals, and then the winners of Regionals are awarded a trip to New York City where they will compete on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in the National Semi-Final Competition. Approximately 10 Semi-Finalists are chosen to compete in the Final competition; 5 of which are awarded a Grand Prize of $15,000 and the remainder of which are awarded $5,000. A large number of past competition winners in the Semi-Final and Final competitions have gone on to have major opera careers.

1950s

• Ethel Wagner DeLong (1954)

• Charlotte Reincke (1955)

• William Black (1956)
• Dorothy Cole Posch (1956)
• Robert Nagy (1956)

• Robert Mosley
  Robert Mosley
  Robert Mosley was an American operatic bass-baritone. In 1957 he won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. He drew particular acclaim for his portrayal of Porgy in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess which he portrayed at the Metropolitan Opera among other opera companies.-References:...
  
   (1957)
• Joan Wall
  Joan Wall
  Joan Boyd Wall is a retired American operatic mezzo-soprano and voice teacher. In 1957 she was a finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She was a principal performer at the Metropolitan Opera, and the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and in Amsterdam, Boston, Philadelphia, Fort Worth...
  
   (1957)
• Felicia Weathers
  Felicia Weathers
  Felicia Weathers is a well known internationally opera and concert singer . Born in St. Louis, Missouri .Made appearances in Zurich , Vienna , Munich, Berlin, Hamburg , Paris , Oslo , Kopenhagen , Stockholm , Covent Garden in London , Mailänder Scala and Metropolitan Opera House, New York...
  
   (1957)

• Grace Bumbry
  Grace Bumbry
  Grace Bumbry , an American opera singer, is considered one of the leading mezzo-sopranos of her generation, as well as a major soprano for many years...
  
   (1958)
• Barbara Faulkner (1958)
• Lucille Kailer (1958)
• Barbara Leichsenring (1958)
• Jefferson Morris (1958)

• Ronald Holgate (1959)
• Norman Mittelmann
  Norman Mittelmann
  Norman Mittelmann is a Canadian operatic baritone. In 1959 he won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. He has sung leading roles with the Bavarian State Opera, the Berlin State Opera, the Canadian Opera Company, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Metropolitan...
  
   (1959)
• Roald Reitan (1959)
• Ann Scott (1959)
• Teresa Stratas
  Teresa Stratas
  Teresa Stratas, OC , is a retired Canadian operatic soprano. She is especially well-known for her award-winning recording of Alban Berg's Lulu.-Early life and career:...
  
   (1959)

1960s

• Mary Jennings (1960)
• Mary MacKenzie
  Mary Mackenzie (mezzo-soprano)
  Mary Mackenzie is an American classical mezzo-soprano and voice teacher. She earned both bachelor and master of music degrees from the Juilliard School. In 1955 she won the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation competition and in 1960 she won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions...
  
   (1960)
• Spiro Malas
  Spiro Malas
  Spiro Malas is an American bass-baritone opera singer.Malas made his operatic debut in 1959 in his native Baltimore and in 1960 he won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. He made his New York debut at the New York City Opera where he came to the attention of Joan Sutherland and her...
  
   (1960)
• Lavergne Monette (1960)
• Polyna Savridi (1960)
• Benita Valente
  Benita Valente
  Benita Valente , is a distinguished American soprano whose long career has encompassed the operatic stage as well as performance of lieder, chamber music and oratorio. She is especially lauded for her interpretations of Mozart and Handel, but she also excelled in certain Verdi roles...
  
   (1960)

• Billie Lynn Daniel (1961)
• Maria de Francesca-Cavazza
  Maria de Francesca-Cavazza
  Maria de Francesca-Cavazza is a German operatic soprano and voice teacher. Raised in the United States, she is a graduate of the Sherwood Conservatory of Music at the Columbia College Chicago where she was a pupil of Maria Hussa-Greve and Garvin Williamson. In 1961 she won the Metropolitan Opera...
  
   (1961)
• Edna Garabedian
  Edna Garabedian
  Edna Garabedian is an American operatic mezzo-soprano, voice teacher, and opera director. Born to Armenian immigrants to the United States in Fresno, California, Garabedian studied singing with William Vennard at the University of Southern California, Lotte Lehmann at the University of California,...
  
   (1961)
• Francesca Roberto (1961)
• George Shirley
  George Shirley
  George Irving Shirley is a renowned tenor opera singer.He is a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity.-External links:*** by Bruce Duffie...
  
   (1961)
• Shirley Verrett
  Shirley Verrett
  Shirley Verrett was an African-American operatic mezzo-soprano who successfully transitioned into soprano roles i.e. soprano sfogato...
  
   (1961)

• Elizabeth Fischer (1962)
• June Genovese (1962)
• Kay Griffel
  Kay Griffel
  Kay Griffel is an American operatic spinto soprano.-Early life and education:After earning a Bachelor of Music from Northwestern University, she pursued further studies with Lotte Lehmann at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. She received a Fulbright Scholarship and a Rockefeller...
  
   (1962)
• Janis Martin
  Janis Martin (soprano)
  Janis Martin is a retired American opera singer who sang leading roles first as a mezzo-soprano and later as a soprano in opera houses throughout Europe and the United States...
  
   (1962)
• James McCray
  James McCray
  -Life and career:Born in Ohio, McRay served in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War before entering the Mannes School of Music in New York City where he was a pupil of Patricia Neway. In 1962 he won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions...
  
   (1962)
• Carol Toscano (1962)
• Veronica Tyler-Scott (1962)
• William Walker
  William Walker (baritone)
  William Sterling Walker was a baritone with the Metropolitan Opera whose singing career included performances at the White House, at Carnegie Hall and other concert venues across North America and Europe, and some 60 appearances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson...
  
   (1962)

• Russell Christopher
  Russell Christopher
  Russell Christopher is an American operatic baritone who specializes in comprimario roles. He studied at the University of Michigan where he was a member of the University of Michigan Men's Glee Club. His voice teachers included Philip Duey and Raymond McDermot...
  
   (1963)
• Justino Díaz
  Justino Díaz
  Justino Díaz is an internationally renowned bass-baritone opera singer. In 1963, Díaz won an annual contest held at the Metropolitan Opera of New York, becoming the "first" Puerto Rican to obtain such an honor and as a consequence, made his Metropolitan debut on October 1963 in Verdi's Rigoletto...
  
   (1963)
• Junetta Jones
  Junetta Jones
  Junetta Jones is an American operatic soprano. A Baltimore native, she is a graduate of Frederick Douglass Senior High School. After earning a Bachelor of Music from Morgan State College, she was awarded a three year scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory where she earned a diplma in 1961 and...
  
   (1963)
• Michael Trimble (1963)

• Gene Boucher (1964)
• Maria Candida (1964)
• Robert Goodloe (1964)
• Katherine Kaufman (1964)
• Mary Beth Peil
  Mary Beth Peil
  Mary Beth Peil is an American actress and singer.-Early life:Born in Davenport, Iowa in 1940, Peil trained as an opera singer at Northwestern University under Lotte Lehmann. There she became a member of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority...
  
   (1964)
• Huguette Tourangeau
  Huguette Tourangeau
  Huguette Tourangeau, is a French-Canadian operatic mezzo-soprano, particularly associated with the French and Italian repertories.- Life and career :...
  
   (1964)

• Loretta Di Franco (1965)
• Gretchen D'Armand (1965)
• Theodore Lambrinos (1965)
• Claudia Lindsey
  Claudia Lindsey
  Claudia Lindsey is an American operatic soprano. Born in Harlem, she is a graduate of Brandeis University and studied singing in New York City with Anna Hamlin and Otto Guth. In 1965 she won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and a grant from the John Hay Whitney Foundation...
  
   (1965)
• Maria Pellegrini Macko (1965)
• Will Roy (1965)
• Richard Stilwell (1965)

• Karan Armstrong
  Karan Armstrong
  Karan Armstrong is an American operatic soprano who has had an active international career since the 1960s.-Biography:...
  
   (1966)
• Dominic Cossa
  Dominic Cossa
  Dominic Cossa is an American operatic lyric baritone particularly associated with the Italian and French repertoire.-Biography:...
  
   (1966)
• Conrad Immel (1966)
• Gwendolyn Killebrew (1966)
• Evelyn Mandac
  Evelyn Mandac
  The Philippine soprano, Evelyn Mandac is a singing actress in opera, soloist with orchestras, recitalist and voice teacher, based in New York City....
  
   (1966)
• Marylyn Mulvey (1966)
• Gail Robinson (1966)
• Annie Walker (1966)

• Costanza Cuccaro (1967)
• Sakiko Kanamori (1967)
• Paula Page (1967)

• Jacquelyn Benson (1968)
• William Cochran
  William Cochran (tenor)
  William Cochran was born on June 23, 1943, in Columbus, Ohio, and is an internationally-noted Heldentenor. He studied at the Curtis Institute of Music with Martial Singher. A winner of the Lauritz Melchior Heldentenor Foundation Award, he debuted with the Metropolitan Opera, as Vogelgesang in Die...
  
   (1968)
• Patricia Craig
  Patricia Craig
  Patricia Craig is an American operatic soprano and voice teacher.-Operatic career:Born Patricia Duncklee in Long Island, New York, she studied music education at Ithaca College, graduating in 1965. Craig gained her first critical vocal acclaim as a winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council...
  
   (1968)
• Judith Forst
  Judith Forst
  Judith Doris Forst, OC, OBC is a Canadian mezzo-soprano.Born in New Westminster, British Columbia, she received a Bachelor of Music from the University of British Columbia in 1964. She is the sister-in-law of long time Vancouver radio personality Brian Forst...
  
   (1968)
• Glenys Fowles
  Glenys Fowles
  Glenys Rae Fowles AM is an Australian operatic soprano who sang with Opera Australia and its predecessors for many years. She also sang at Covent Garden, Glyndebourne, and for the New York City Opera, San Diego Opera, and Scottish Opera. She also appeared at the BBC Proms and with the New York...
  
   (1968)
• Gwendolyn Jones (1968)
• Jessye Norman
  Jessye Norman
  Jessye Norman is an American opera singer. Norman is a well-known contemporary opera singer and recitalist, and is one of the highest paid performers in classical music...
  
   (1968)
• Nancy Shade
  Nancy Shade
  Nancy Shade is a celebrated spinto soprano, best known as a singing-actress. She made her formal debut as Leonora in Il trovatore, in Louisville, in 1967. In 1971, she made her first of many appearances at the New York City Opera, as Musetta in La bohème...
  
   (1968)
• Ruth Welting (1968)
• Loretta Ziskin (1968)

• Elaine Cormany (1969)
• Gilda Cruz-Romo
  Gilda Cruz-Romo
  Gilda Cruz-Romo is a Mexican operatic soprano, particularly associated with dramatic rolesof the Italian repertory, notably Aida and Tosca....
  
   (1969)
• James Johnson (1969)
• Eugenie Chopin Watson (1969)
• Frederica Von Stade
  Frederica von Stade
  Frederica von Stade is an American mezzo-soprano. Born in Somerville, New Jersey, she acquired the nickname "Flicka" in her childhood. Von Stade attended the Mannes College of Music in New York City. She made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera in 1970 and in 1971 appeared as Cherubino in The...
  
   (1969)

1970s

• Jeannine Altmeyer
  Jeannine Altmeyer
  Jeannine Altmeyer is an American soprano who had a prolific international opera career during the 1970s through the 1990s...
  
   (1970)

• Barbara Pearson (1971)

• Christine Weidinger
  Christine Weidinger
  Christine Weidinger is an American operatic soprano who has had an active international career in operas and concerts since the early 1970s. Her career started at the Metropolitan Opera, after which she was active as a resident artist with opera houses in Germany during the late 1970s and 1980s...
  
   (1972)

• Douglas Ahlstedt (1973)

• Alma Jean Smith (1974)

• Carmen Balthrop (1975)

• John Carpenter (1976)
• Ashley Putnam
  Ashley Putnam
  Ashley Putnam is an American soprano from New York City. Her professional singing career began in 1976 and has spanned over 30 years.-Early Life & Career:...
  
   (1976)

• Vinson Cole
  Vinson Cole
  Vinson Cole is an American operatic tenor.A native of Kansas City, the tenor studied at the University of Missouri, Kansas City; the Philadelphia Musical Academy; and at the Curtis Institute of Music with Margaret Harshaw...
  
   (1977)

• Wendy White
  Wendy White (mezzo-soprano)
  Wendy White is an American mezzo-soprano who has had an active international singing career in operas and concerts since the late 1970s...
  
   (1978)
• Winifred Faix Brown (1978)

• Jane Bunnell (1979)
• Pamela Hicks (1979)
• Dianne Iauco (1979)
• Sandra McClain (1979)
• Robert McFarland (1979)
• Jan Opalach (1979)
• Robert Wood Overman (1979)
• Natalia Rom
  Natalia Rom
  Natalia Rom, soprano, was born in Kazan, in the Soviet Union , and graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory. In late 1976, she emigrated to New Orleans, where she attended Loyola University's College of Music, where she studied voice with Patricia Havranek...
  
   (1979)
• Susan St. John (1979)
• Michael Talley (1979)
• Delores Ziegler (1979)

1980s

• Marjo Carroll (1980)
• Louise Deal-Pluymen (1980)
• John Fowler (1980)
• Kevin Langan (1980)
• Darren Nimnicht (1980)
• Lani Norskog (1980)
• Robin Reed (1980)
• Leslie Richards (1980)
• Margaret Vazquez (1980)
• Lauren Wagner (1980)
• Thomas Woodman (1980)

• Laurence Albert (1981)
• Lawrence Bakst (1981)
• Rebecca Cook (1981)
• Gail Dobish (1981)
• Gail Dubinbaum
  Gail Dubinbaum
  Gail Dubinbaum is an American operatic coloratura mezzo-soprano and co-founder and Creative Director of the Phoenix Metropolitan Opera.-Career:...
  
   (1981)
• Susan Dunn
  Susan Dunn
  Susan Dunn is an award winning American spinto soprano who has graced many of the world's finest opera houses, concert halls, and theaters in operas, oratorios, and concert performances. Dunn is particularly admired for her portrayals of Verdi heroines...
  
   (1981)
• Joyce Guyer (1981)
• Thomas Hampson (1981)
• Diane Kesling (1981)
• Laura Brooks Rice (1981)
• Valerie Yova (1981)

• Lucille Beer (1982)
• Angela Maria Blasi (1982)
• Pamela Coburn (1982)
• Carla Cook (1982)
• Nancy Gustafson
  Nancy Gustafson
  Nancy Gustafson is an American opera singer.She received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in 1978 and her M.Mus. from Northwestern University...
  
   (1982)
• Hong Hei-Kyung (1982)
• Walter MacNeil (1982)
• Sylvia McNair
  Sylvia McNair
  Sylvia McNair is an American opera singer and classical recitalist who has also achieved notable success in the Broadway and cabaret genres. McNair, a soprano, has made several critically acclaimed recordings and has won two Grammy Awards....
  
   (1982)
• Katharine Ritz (1982)
• Kathleen Segar (1982)
• Eduardo Villa (1982)

• Harolyn Blackwell
  Harolyn Blackwell
  Harolyn Blackwell is an African-American lyric coloratura soprano who has performed in many of the world's finest opera houses, concert halls, and theaters in operas, oratorios, recitals, and Broadway musicals...
  
   (1983)
• Linda Caple (1983)
• Jean Glennon (1983)
• Elizabeth Holleque (1983)
• Ellen Kerrigan (1983)
• Joanne Kolomyjec (1983)
• Alessandra Marc
  Alessandra Marc
  Alessandra Marc is an award-winning American dramatic soprano who has appeared at many of the world's finest opera houses and orchestras...
  
   (1983)
• Cecily Nall (1983)
• Herbert Perry (1983)
• Jo Ann Pickens (1983)
• Stella Zambalis
  Stella Zambalis
  Stella Zambalis is an American spinto soprano born in Cleveland, Ohio. She has been called one of the best sopranos in the world today.-Education and early career:...
  
   (1983)

• Elaine Arandes (1984)
• Philip Bologna (1984)
• Richard Croft
  Richard Croft (tenor)
  Richard Croft is an American tenor.Richard Croft debuted in the United States , by singing the major roles of Mozart and Rossini, before being invited on the leading international stages Richard Croft is an American tenor.Richard Croft debuted in the United States (including at the Metropolitan...
  
    (1984)
• Gerald Dolter (1984)
• Marcus Haddock (1984)
• Theresa Hamm (1984)
• Cynthia Lawrence (1984)
• Emily Manhart (1984)
• Lisa Saffer (1984)
• Nova Thomas (1984)
• Jonathan Welch (1984)

• Stephen Biggers (1985)
• Maryte Bizinkauskas (1985)
• Philip Cokorinos (1985)
• Richard Cowan
  Richard Cowan (bass-baritone)
  Richard Cowan is an American operatic bass-baritone. In 1985 he won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions...
  
   (1985)
• Julia Faulkner (1985)
• Anne Johnson (1985)
• Victoria Livengood (1985)
• Deborah Voigt
  Deborah Voigt
  Deborah Voigt is an American operatic soprano. Voigt regularly performs in opera houses and concert halls worldwide.- Early life and education :...
  
   (1985)
• Karen Williams
  Karen Williams
  Karen Williams is an American concert and opera soprano. In 1985 she won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions; making her stage debut at the Metropolitan Opera later that year as Serena in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. She sang that role at the Met again in 1989-1990...
  
   (1985)
• Margaret Jane Wray
  Margaret Jane Wray
  Margaret Jane Wray is an award winning American dramatic soprano known for her interpretations of the works of Richard Wagner.Wray began her career as a member of the Metropolitan Opera's Young Artist program in the mid to late 1980s. She made her debut with the company in 1987 as Annina in Verdi's...
  
   (1985)
• Donna Maria Zapola (1985)

• Mark Baker (1986)
• Susan Bender (1986)
• Andrea Cawelti (1986)
• Mark S. Doss
  Mark S. Doss
  Mark Steven Doss is a Grammy Award-winning African-American bass-baritone, specializing in opera, concert and recital...
  
   (1986)
• Gordon Hawkins (1986)
• Barbara Kilduff (1986)
• Kim Marie Kodes (1986)
• Marilyn Mims (1986)
• Stanford Olsen (1986)
• Deidra Palmour (1986)
• Michael Sylvester
  Michael Sylvester
  Michael Lane Sylvester was a lyric spinto operatic tenor.- Notes:...
  
   (1986)

• Ned Barth (1987)
• Mary Burt (1987)
• Deborah Lynn Cole (1987)
• Janet Folta (1987)
• Amanda Halgrimson (1987)
• Nikki Li Hartliep (1987)
• Frederic Kalt (1987)
• Mi-Hae Park (1987)
• Celeste Tavera (1987)
• Steven Tharp (1987)
• Blythe Walker (1987)

• Elizabeth Carter (1988)
• Richard Drews (1988)
• Renée Fleming
  Renée Fleming
  Renée Fleming is an American soprano specializing in opera and lieder. Fleming has a full lyric soprano voice.Fleming has performed coloratura, lyric, and lighter spinto soprano repertoires. She has sung roles in Italian, German, French, Czech, and Russian, aside from her native English. She also...
  
   (1988)
• Haijing Fu (1988)
• Susan Graham
  Susan Graham
  Susan Graham is an American mezzo-soprano.Raised in Midland, Texas, she is a graduate of Texas Tech University and the Manhattan School of Music. She studied the piano for 13 years...
  
   (1988)
• Ben Heppner
  Ben Heppner
  Ben Heppner, CC is a Canadian tenor, specializing in opera and other classical works for voice.Heppner was born in Murrayville, British Columbia, and lived in Dawson Creek...
  
   (1988)
• Wendy Hoffman (1988)
• Carolyn James (1988)
• Lynda Keith (1988)
• Heidi Grant Murphy (1988)
• LeRoy Villanueva (1988)

• Christine Brewer
  Christine Brewer
  Christine Brewer is an American soprano. She grew up in the Mississippi River town of Grand Tower, Illinois. She attended McKendree University in Lebanon, Illinois and concentrated on music education. She was a music teacher for several years before embarking on a professional music performing...
  
   (1989)
• Dong-Jian Gong (1989)
• Dominique Labelle (1989)
• Ning Liang (1989)
• Mary Mills
  Mary Mills (soprano)
  Mary Elizabeth Mills is an American opera singer. Praised for her rich and tender tone, Soprano Mary Mills has made a lasting impression with her soaring high notes, touching dramatic expression, and youthful sensuality.-Biography:...
  
   (1989)
• Mark Oswald (1989)
• Kevin Short
  Kevin Short
  Kevin Short is an American operatic bass-baritone. A graduate of Morgan State University, the Curtis Institute of Music, and the Juilliard School, he won the bass-baritone award for the Middle Atlantic region Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 1989. From 1991-1998 he appeared annually...
  
   (1989)
• Tichina Vaughn (1989)
• Rosa Vento (1989)
• Verónica Villarroel
  Verónica Villarroel
  Verónica Villarroel González is a Chilean soprano. In 1989 she won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She studied singing with Ellen Faull at the Juilliard School.Villarroel was born in Santiago, Chile to Gueraldo Villarroel and Luisa González...
  
   (1989)

1990s

• Jeanne-Michelle Charbonnet (1990)
• Steven Combs (1990)
• Catherine Cook (1990)
• Adrienne Dugger (1990)
• Clare Mueller (1990)
• Susan Owen
  Susan Owen
  Susan Owen is an American operatic soprano. Born in Salisbury, North Carolina, she earned a Bachelor of Music degree from East Carolina University in 1980 and a Master of Music degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1983. In 1990 she won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions...
  
   (1990)
• Phyllis Pancella (1990)
• Kitt Reuter-Foss (1990)
• Rebecca Russell (1990)
• Young-Ok Shin (1990)
• Roy Cornelius Smith
  Roy Cornelius Smith
  Roy Cornelius Smith is an American operatic tenor, from Big Stone Gap, Virginia.Smith performed leading tenor roles at many opera houses and festivals including the Salzburg Festival, Spoleto Festival, Metropolitan Opera, Vienna Volksoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, New York City Opera, and Lyric Opera...
  
   (1990)

• Brian Asawa
  Brian Asawa
  Brian Asawa is a Japanese-American countertenor.He began his studies as a piano major at the University of California, Santa Cruz, ultimately switching his studies to singing under tenor Harlan Hokin. After two semesters there he transferred to UCLA where he studied under Virginia Fox and Kari...
  
   (1991)
• Demareus Cooper (1991)
• Elizabeth Futral
  Elizabeth Futral
  Elizabeth Futral is an American coloratura soprano who has won acclaim throughout the United States as well as in Europe, South America, and Japan....
  
   (1991)
• Paul Groves
  Paul Groves (tenor)
  Paul Groves is an American operatic tenor. In 1991 he won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and in 1995 he won the prestigious Richard Tucker Award...
  
   (1991)
• Derrick Lawrence (1991)
• Hong-Shen Li (1991)
• Kenneth Tarver
  Kenneth Tarver
  Kenneth Tarver is a tenore di grazia. He has appeared at some of the world’s most prestigious opera houses, such as the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Teatro Municipal in Santiago de Chile , Wiener Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Bayerische Staatsoper, Dresden...
  
   (1991)
• Yalun Zhang (1991)

• Youmi Cho (1992)
• Michelle DeYoung
  Michelle DeYoung
  Michelle DeYoung is an American classical vocalist who has an active international career performing in operas and concerts. Raised in Colorado and California, DeYoung is a graduate of the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artists Development Program...
  
   (1992)
• Yvonne Gonzales (1992)
• Clare Gormley (1992)
• Michaela Gurevich (1992)
• Marie Plette (1992)
• Christopher Schaldenbrand (1992)
• Tony Stevenson
  Tony Stevenson
  Anthony "Tony" Stevenson is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a right back for Albion Rovers.-Career:Born in Glasgow, Stevenson began his career with Hamilton Academical. He made his senior debut for the Accies in August 2005, in a Scottish League Cup tie against Dumbarton...
  
   (1992)

• Seung Won Choi (1993)
• Margaret Lattimore (1993)
• Ray M. Wade (1993)
• Kathryn Krasovec (1993)
• Emily Ann Pulley (1993)
• Ainhoa Arteta
  Ainhoa Arteta
  Ainhoa Arteta Ibarrolaburu, born 24 September 1964 in Tolosa , Spain, is a Spanish soprano.- Biography :After studying in Tolosa and Italy, she later studied under Ruth Falcon....
  
   (1993)
• Elizabeth Bishop
  Elizabeth Bishop
  Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956 and a National Book Award Winner for Poetry in 1970. Elizabeth Bishop House is an artists' retreat in Great Village, Nova Scotia...
  
   (1993)
• Dennis McNeil
  Dennis McNeil
  Dennis McNeil, , is an American operatic tenor, musical theater performer and concert singer. He was educated at Miraleste High School, Loyola High School , the Institute for the American Musical, Merola Opera Program of San Francisco Opera and the University of California, Davis .-Opera:McNeil...
  
   (1993)

• Norah Amsellem (1994)
• John Robert Autry (1994)
• Stephanie Blythe
  Stephanie Blythe
  Stephanie Blythe is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer.-Biography:Blythe graduated from Monticello High School in 1987 and the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam in 1992. She was the recipient of the prestigious Richard Tucker Award in 1999...
  
   (1994)
• Sheryl H. Cohen (1994)
• Nathan Gunn
  Nathan Gunn
  Nathan Gunn is an operatic baritone from the United States.He has appeared in many of world's well-known opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, Dallas Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh Opera,...
  
   (1994)
• Olga Makarina (1994)
• Mark Edward McCrory (1994)
• John J. Osborn (1994)
• Svetlana Serdar (1994)
• Daniel Sumegi (1994)

• Michael Chioldi
  Michael Chioldi
  Michael Chioldi is an American operatic baritone who has performed at many major American opera houses and festivals, including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, San Diego Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Long...
  
   (1995)
• Robert Crowe
  Robert Crowe
  Robert Crowe is a Paralympic cycling competitor from Australia. He won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Games in the Men's Road Race / Time Trial Tandem B1-3 event.-References:...
  
   (1995)
• Amelia Farrugia (1995)
• Anita Johnson (1995)
• Sujung Kim (1995)
• Aline Kutan (1995)
• Kelley Nassief (1995)
• Sondra Radvanovsky
  Sondra Radvanovsky
  Sondra Radvanovsky is an American soprano. Sondra was born in Berwyn, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, on April 11, 1969. She lived and attended high school in Richmond, Indiana, a small city which, despite its size, had its own opera company...
  
   (1995)
• Gregory J. Turay, III (1995)
• Jon Villars (1995)

• Leah Creek (1996)
• Tamara Lynn Hummel (1996)
• Daniele LeBlanc (1996)
• Lester Lynch (1996)
• Elizabeth Norman (1996)
• Eric Owens
  Eric Owens (bass-baritone)
  Eric Owens is an American operatic bass-baritone born July 11, 1970 in Philadelphia. He attended Central High School "247", Temple University's Boyer College of Music, and the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia...
  
   (1996)
• Jami Rogers (1996)
• Jung-Hack Seo
  Jung-Hack Seo
  Chinese：徐 廷學　 Hangle:서정학 Japanese:ソ・ジョンハク】Performance Name in Japan: SEO Classical Vocalist-1990s and 2000s:South Korean Baritone to Perform with the Metropolitan Opera Company ....
  
   (1996)
• Lynette Tapia (1996)

• Isabel Bayrakdarian
  Isabel Bayrakdarian
  Isabel Bayrakdarian is a Grammy Award-nominated Armenian Canadian opera singer.-Early life:Born in Lebanon in 1974, she moved to Canada as a teenager. Bayrakdarian graduated in 1997 from the University of Toronto with an honours B.A.Sc...
  
   (1997)
• Angela Brown
  Angela Brown
  Angela M. Brown is an African-American dramatic soprano particularly admired for her portrayal of Verdi heroines.-Early life and education:...
  
   (1997)
• Alexandra Deshorties
  Alexandra Deshorties
  Alexandra Deshorties is a French-Canadian soprano, and sings principally opera. She was born in Canada and raised in Marseilles, France....
  
   (1997)
• Karen Henrikson (1997)
• Sandra Yvonne Lopez (1997)
• Mary Petro (1997)
• Susan Tilbury (1997)
• Andrea Trebnik (1997)
• Mark Uhlemann (1997)
• Jennifer Welch (1997)

• Eric Cutler
  Eric Cutler
  Eric Cutler is an American tenor notable for his performances of bel canto repertoire and Mozart operas in particular. He is a native of Adel, Iowa, and a graduate of Luther College. Cutler is an alumnus of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and was a winner of the...
  
   (1998)
• Philip Horst (1998)
• Kyle Ketelsen (1998)
• Mariateresa Magisano (1998)
• Keith Phares (1998)
• Jane Shivik (1998)
• Indra Thomas (1998)
• David Walker (1998)
• Chen-Ye Yuan (1998)
• Maria Zifchak (1998)

• Kelly Kaduce
  Kelly Kaduce
  Kelly Kaduce is an American soprano. She was born in Winnebago, Minnesota, United States of America. A graduate of St. Olaf College and Boston University , Kaduce won the 1999 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions...
  
   (1999)
• Meagan Miller
  Meagan Miller
  Meagan Miller is a soprano who has performed on opera, recital and concert stages all over the world.-Early life:Miller was born in Wilmington, DE and grew up in West Chester OH, and Chadds Ford, PA. As a high school student at Archmere Academy, Miller was exposed to much classical music, and also...
  
   (1999)
• Jossie Pérez (1999)
• Barbara Quintiliani (1999)
• Stacey Rishoi (1999)

2000s

• Elizabeth Batton (2000)
• Esther Heideman (2000)
• Lindsay Killian (2000)
• Latonia Moore (2000)
• Todd Wilander (2000)

• Lawrence Brownlee
  Lawrence Brownlee
  Lawrence Brownlee is an American operatic tenor particularly associated with the bel canto repertoire. In 2001 he won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. He was named Seattle Opera's Artist of the Year in 2008 for his performances as Arturo in Bellini's I puritani. He has also...
  
   (2001)
• Melissa Citro (2001)
• Rachelle Durkin (2001)
• Jesús Garcia
  Jesús García
  Jesús García Corona was a Mexican railroad engineer who was killed trying to keep a train loaded with dynamite from exploding near Nacozari de García, Sonora, in 1907. As el héroe de Nacozari he is revered as a national hero and many streets, plazas, and schools across Mexico are named for...
  
   (2001)
• Kristine Winkler (2001)

• Carolyn Betty (2002)
• Philippe Castagner (2002)
• Twyla Robinson (2002)
• James Valenti
  James Valenti
  James Valenti is an American operatic tenor. Born in the town of Summit, New Jersey and raised in Clinton, he is a graduate of the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia...
  
   (2002)

• Alyson Cambridge
  Alyson Cambridge
  Alyson Cambridge is an American operatic soprano. A native of Washington D.C., she attended school in Cambridge and Oberlin and studied at the Curtis Institute of Music. In 2003 she won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, which gained her entrance into the Metropolitan Opera's...
  
   (2003)
• Michael Maniaci
  Michael Maniaci
  Michael Maniaci is an American opera singer who has appeared at many of the world's best opera houses. Possessing a unique male soprano voice, Maniaci is noted for his unusual ability to sing into the upper soprano register without using falsetto...
  
   (2003)
• Christina Pier (2003)
• Christian Van Horn (2003)

• Meredith Arwady (2004)
• Claudia Huckle (2004)
• Laquita Mitchell (2004)

• Jordan Bisch (2005)
• Lisette Oropesa
  Lisette Oropesa
  Lisette Oropesa is an American soprano, who was raised in Baton Rouge, where she studied at Louisiana State University...
  
   (2005)
• Susanna Phillips
  Susanna Phillips
  Susanna Phillips is a soprano opera singer. She has appeared at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Metropolitan Opera, among others. Though born in Birmingham, Alabama she and her family moved two weeks after she was born, to Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama; where she grew up and attended...
  
   (2005)
• Rodell Aure Rosel (2005)

• Paul Corona (2006)
• Holli Harrison (2006)
• Katherine Jolly (2006)
• Marjorie Owens (2006)
• Donovan Singletary (2006)

• Jamie Barton (2007)
• Michael Fabiano
  Michael Fabiano
  Michael Fabiano is an American operatic tenor. Born in Montclair, New Jersey, he has performed in leading opera houses throughout the world, including the San Francisco Opera, Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Paris Opera, English National Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Dresden Semperoper and Teatro San...
  
   (2007)
• Angela Meade (2007)
• Ryan McKinny (2007)
• Alek Shrader (2007)
• Ryan Smith (2007)
• Amber L. Wagner (2007)

• Erich René Barbera (2008)
• Jennifer Johnson
  Jennifer Johnson (American mezzo-soprano)
  Jennifer Johnson is an American operatic mezzo-soprano. She earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Webster University and a Master of Music degree from Rice University where she was a pupil of Kathleen Kaun. In 2008 she won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and in 2009 she won the...
  
   (2008)
• Daveda Karanas (2008)
• Simone Osborne (2008)
• Edward Parks (2008)

• Paul Appleby (2009)
• Anthony Roth Costanzo (2009)
• Sung Eun Lee (2009)
• Nadine Sierra
  Nadine Sierra
  Nadine Sierra is an American operatic soprano. On February 21, 2009, she won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Finals in New York. A native of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, she trained The Mannes College of Music and Marilyn Horne's Music Academy of the West, where she the youngest...
  
   (2009)

2010s

• Leah Crocetto (2010)
• Lori Guilbeau (2010)
• Elliot Madore (2010)
• Nathaniel Peake (2010)
• Rachel Willis-Sørensen (2010)

• Joseph Barron
  Joseph Barron
  Joseph Barron was an Irish Clann na Poblachta politician. A teacher by profession, he first stood unsuccessfully for election at the 1948 general election as a Clann na Poblachta candidate for the Dublin South Central constituency...
  
   (2011)
• Ryan Speedo Green (2011)
• Michelle Johnson
  Michelle Johnson
  Michelle Johnson may refer to:* Michelle Johnson , American actress* Michelle Johnson, the birth name of singer Meshell Ndegeocello* Brig. Gen. Michelle D. Johnson, United States Air Force...
  
  (2011)
• Joseph Lim (2011)
• Philippe Sly (2011)