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
Nan Wang
Handan, Hebei, China
Yue Wu
Tianjin, China
basses
Cumhur Görgün
Istanbul, Turkey