Resident Artists

AVA’s Resident Artists truly are the “voices of tomorrow.” Since 1980, over 50 AVA alums have joined the Metropolitan Opera’s roster and AVA alumni are heard in the world’s great opera houses every season.

Our current roster includes singers from around the world – Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, China, Mexico, Sweden, and the United States.

sopranos

Manli Deng

Loella Grahn

Köping, Sweden

Lydia Grindatto

Tijeras, New Mexico

Emily Margevich

Chicago, Illinois

Veronica Richer

Ethel Trujillo

Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

mezzo-sopranos

Jenny Anne Flory

Dayton, VA

Monique Galvão

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Ariana Maubach

Alla Yarosh

Tal'ne, Cherkas'ka Oblast', Ukraine

tenors

Joshua Berg

Gladstone, New Jersey.

Matthew Goodheart

Binghamton, NY

Angel Raii Gomez

McAllen, Texas

Luke Norvell

Tacoma, Washington

Shawn Roth

Johnstown, Pennsylvania

baritones

Benjamin Dickerson

Burlington, Vermont

Kevin Godínez

San José, Costa Rica

Geoffrey Schmelzer

Skokie, IL

bass-baritones

Dylan Gregg

Salisbury, Maryland

Cumhur Görgün

Istanbul, Turkey

Nan Wang

Handan, Hebei, China

Yue Wu

Tianjin, China