Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions

The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions is an annual singing competition sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera. Established in 1954, its purpose is to discover, assist, promote, and develop young opera 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, Canada and Puerto Rico, and 42 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 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; the five winners are awarded a grand prize of $15,000 each, and the remaining finalists receive $5,000.

National winners

1950s

1960s

1970s

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 (1981)
  • Susan Dunn (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 (1982)
  • Hong Hei-Kyung (1982)
  • Walter MacNeil (1982)
  • Sylvia McNair (1982)
  • Katharine Ritz (1982)
  • Kathleen Segar (1982)
  • Eduardo Villa (1982)
  • Harolyn Blackwell (1983)
  • Linda Caple (1983)
  • Jean Glennon (1983)
  • Elizabeth Holleque (1983)
  • Ellen Kerrigan (1983)
  • Joanne Kolomyjec (1983)
  • Alessandra Marc (1983)
  • Cecily Nall (1983)
  • Herbert Perry (1983)
  • Jo Ann Pickens (1983)
  • Stella Zambalis (1983)
  • Elaine Arandes (1984)
  • Philip Bologna (1984)
  • Richard Croft (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 (1985)
  • Julia Faulkner (1985)
  • Anne Johnson (1985)
  • Victoria Livengood (1985)
  • Deborah Voigt (1985)
  • Karen Williams (1985)
  • Margaret Jane Wray (1985)
  • Donna Maria Zapola (1985)
  • Mark Baker (1986)
  • Susan Bender (1986)
  • Andrea Cawelti (1986)
  • Mark S. Doss (1986)
  • Gordon Hawkins (1986)
  • Barbara Kilduff (1986)
  • Kim Marie Kodes (1986)
  • Marilyn Mims (1986)
  • Stanford Olsen (1986)
  • Deidra Palmour (1986)
  • Michael Sylvester (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 (1988)
  • Haijing Fu (1988)
  • Susan Graham (1988)
  • Ben Heppner (1988)
  • Wendy Hoffman (1988)
  • Carolyn James (1988)
  • Lynda Keith (1988)
  • Heidi Grant Murphy (1988)
  • LeRoy Villanueva (1988)
  • Christine Brewer (1989)
  • Dong-Jian Gong (1989)
  • Dominique Labelle (1989)
  • Ning Liang (1989)
  • Mary Mills (1989)
  • Mark Oswald (1989)
  • Kevin Short (1989)
  • Tichina Vaughn (1989)
  • Rosa Vento (1989)
  • Verónica Villarroel (1989)

1990s

  • Jeanne-Michelle Charbonnet (1990)
  • Steven Combs (1990)
  • Catherine Cook (1990)
  • Adrienne Dugger (1990)
  • Clare Mueller (1990)
  • Susan Owen (1990)
  • Phyllis Pancella (1990)
  • Kitt Reuter-Foss (1990)
  • Rebecca Russell (1990)
  • Young-Ok Shin (1990)
  • Roy Cornelius Smith (1990)
  • Brian Asawa (1991)
  • Demareus Cooper (1991)
  • Elizabeth Futral (1991)
  • Paul Groves (1991)
  • Derrick Lawrence (1991)
  • Hong-Shen Li (1991)
  • Kenneth Tarver (1991)
  • Yalun Zhang (1991)
  • Youmi Cho (1992)
  • Michelle DeYoung (1992)
  • Yvonne Gonzales (1992)
  • Clare Gormley (1992)
  • Michaela Gurevich (1992)
  • Marie Plette (1992)
  • Christopher Schaldenbrand (1992)
  • Tony Stevenson (1992)
  • Seung Won Choi (1993)
  • Margaret Lattimore (1993)
  • Ray M. Wade (1993)
  • Kathryn Krasovec (1993)
  • Emily Ann Pulley (1993)
  • Ainhoa Arteta (1993)
  • Elizabeth Bishop (1993)
  • Dennis McNeil (1993)
  • Norah Amsellem (1994)
  • John Robert Autry (1994)
  • Stephanie Blythe (1994)
  • Sheryl H. Cohen (1994)
  • Nathan Gunn (1994)
  • Olga Makarina (1994)
  • Mark Edward McCrory (1994)
  • John J. Osborn (1994)
  • Svetlana Serdar (1994)
  • Daniel Sumegi (1994)
  • Michael Chioldi (1995)
  • Robert Crowe (1995)
  • Amelia Farrugia (1995)
  • Anita Johnson (1995)
  • Sujung Kim (1995)
  • Aline Kutan (1995)
  • Kelley Nassief (1995)
  • Sondra Radvanovsky (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 (1996)
  • Jami Rogers (1996)
  • Jung-Hack Seo (1996)
  • Lynette Tapia (1996)
  • Isabel Bayrakdarian (1997)
  • Angela Brown (1997)
  • Alexandra Deshorties (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 (1998)
  • Philip Horst (1998)
  • Kyle Ketelsen (1998)
  • Mariateresa Magisano (1998)
  • Keith Phares (1998)
  • Jane Shivick (1998)
  • Indra Thomas (1998)
  • David Walker (1998)
  • Chen-Ye Yuan (1998)
  • Maria Zifchak (1998)
  • Kelly Kaduce (1999)
  • Meagan Miller (1999)
  • Jossie Pérez (1999)
  • Barbara Quintiliani (1999)
  • Stacey Rishoi (1999)

2000s

2010s

  • Leah Crocetto, soprano (2010)
  • Lori Guilbeau, soprano (2010)
  • Elliot Madore, baritone (2010)
  • Nathaniel Peake, tenor (2010)
  • Rachel Willis-Sørensen, soprano (2010)
  • Joseph Barron, bass-baritone (2011)
  • Ryan Speedo Green, bass-baritone (2011)
  • Michelle Johnson, soprano (2011)
  • Joseph Lim, baritone (2011)
  • Philippe Sly, bass-baritone (2011)
  • Janai Brugger, soprano (2012)
  • Anthony Clark Evans, baritone (2012)
  • Matthew Grills, tenor (2012)
  • Margaret Mezzacappa, mezzo-soprano (2012)
  • Andrey Nemzer, countertenor (2012)
  • Michael Brandenburg, tenor (2013)
  • Brandon Cedel, bass-baritone (2013)
  • Sydney Mancasola, soprano (2013)
  • Musa Ngqungwana, bass-baritone (2013)
  • Rebecca Pedersen, soprano (2013)
  • Thomas Richards, bass-baritone (2013)
  • Julie Adams, soprano (2014)
  • Patrick Guetti, bass (2014)
  • Ao Li, bass-baritone (2014)
  • Yi Li, tenor (2014)
  • Amanda Woodbury, soprano (2014)
  • Nicholas Brownlee, bass-baritone (2015)
  • Marina Costa-Jackson, soprano (2015)
  • Joseph Dennis, tenor (2015)
  • Reginald Smith Jr., baritone (2015)
  • Virginie Verrez, mezzo-soprano (2015)
  • Emily D'Angelo, mezzo-soprano (2016)
  • Yelena Dyachek, soprano (2016)
  • Sol Jin, baritone (2016)
  • Jakub Józef Orliński, countertenor (2016)
  • Sean Michael Plumb, baritone (2016)

References

  1. ↑ "Tenor Wins 'MET' Prize; Robert Nagy Gets $2,000 Audition Scholarship 2 M.P's to Attend Screening". The New York Times. March 21, 1956. (subscription required)

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