Vincent Graña, bass

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Jersey City, NJ

Photo by Emma Cleary

2025 Bel Canto Season:

Previously with Teatro Nuovo:

  • Mirabolano, Crispino e la Comare

  • Podestà, La Gazza Ladra

  • Priore,  La Straniera

  • Soloist, Callas: Past and Future

  • Soloist, Rossini’s Stabat Mater

Recent and Upcoming:

  • Bass Soloist, Verdi's Requiem, Steeple Concerts at St Paul''s

  • Extra Chorus, Aïda, The Metropolitan Opera

  • Extra Chorus, Fidelio, The Metropolitan Opera

  • Colline, La Boheme, Opera Theater Rutgers

  • Pangloss, Candide, Opera Theater Rutgers

Ricardo José Rivera, baritone

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San Juan, Puerto Rico

Photo by Simon Pauly

2025 Bel Canto Season:

Previously with Teatro Nuovo:

Recent and Upcoming:

  • Silvio, Pagliacci, Pittsburgh Opera

  • Conte di Luna, Il Trovatore, Opera Colorado, Sarasota Opera

  • Stankar, Stiffelio; Miller, Luisa Miller; Don Carlo, Ernani, Sarasota Opera

  • Dominick, Arabella, Metropolitan Opera

  • Duca di Nottingham, Roberto Devereux, Miller, Luisa Miller, Washington Concert Opera

Website:
sempreartists.com/ricardo-jose-rivera

Martin Luther Clark, tenor

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Marshall, TX

Photo by Daniel Welch

2025 Bel Canto Season:

 

Recent and Upcoming:

  • Walther, Tannhäuser, Houston Grand Opera

  • Luis Griffith, Terence Blanchard’s Champion, CJ, Will Liverman and DJ King Rico’s The Factotum (world premiere), Lyric Opera of Chicago

  • Title role, Candide, Ferrando, Così fan tutte, Madison Opera

  • Tenor soloist, Mozart’s Requiem, Madison Symphony Orchestra

  • Pang, Turandot, Metropolitan Opera

Cumhur Görgün, bass

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Istanbul, Turkey

Photo by Sinan Kemal

2025 Bel Canto Season:

Recent and Upcoming:

  • Don Basilio, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Glyndebourne Festival

  • Don Basilio (cover), Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Glyndebourne Festival

  • Méphistophélès, Faust, The Academy of Vocal Arts

  • Enrico VIII, Anna Bolena, The Academy of Vocal Arts

  • Leporello, Don Giovanni, The Academy of Vocal Arts

Teresa Castillo, soprano

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New York, NY

Photo by Bill Wadman

2025 Bel Canto Season:

Previously with Teatro Nuovo:

Recent and Upcoming:

  • Nuria (cover), Golijov’s Ainadamar, Metropolitan Opera

  • Maria, West Side Story, Houston Grand Opera

  • Title role, Boccherini’s Doña Clementina, Opera Southwest

Website:
teresacastillosoprano.com

Christopher Bozeka, tenor

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Photo by Daniel Welch

2025 Bel Canto Season:

Previously with Teatro Nuovo:

Recent and Upcoming:

  • Don Basilio (cover), Le Nozze di Figaro, Metropolitan Opera

  • Count Almaviva, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Opera Las Vegas

  • The Hunchback (cover), Die Frau Ohne Schatten, Metropolitan Opera

  • Mission Coordinator, Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded, Metropolitan Opera

Website:
christopherbozeka.com

Owen Phillipson, bass-baritone

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Toronto, ON

Photo by Grace Qiu

2025 Bel Canto Season:

Previously with Teatro Nuovo:

 

Recent and Upcoming:

  • Baritone soloist, Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols, Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra and Toronto Children’s Chorus

  • Bass soloist, Schubert Mass in G Major, St. Michael’s Choir School

  • Bass soloist, Bach Magnificat, COSA Canada

  • Baritone soloist, Fauré Requiem, St. Thomas’s Anglican Church Toronto

Abigail Raiford, soprano

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Tulsa, OK

Photo by Rafael Clemente

2025 Bel Canto Season:

Previously with Teatro Nuovo:

Recent and Upcoming:

  • National Finalist, 2025 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition

  • Nanetta, Falstaff, Opera Tampa

  • Soprano Soloist, Messiah, Glacier Symphony

  • Soprano Soloist, Carmina Burana, York Symphony

  • Mabel, Pirates of Penzance, Tulsa Opera

Kevin Spooner, bass-baritone

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Oneida, NY

Photo by Rechord Co

2025 Bel Canto Season:

  • Medico; Banco (cover), Macbeth
    Teatro Nuovo debut

 

Recent and Upcoming:

  • King Herod (cover), Stradella’s San Giovanni Battista (US Staged Premiere), Catapult Opera

  • Governor/Innkeeper, Man of La Mancha, Piedmont Opera

  • Baritone Soloist, V. Williams’ Five Mystical Songs, Oratorio Society of Virginia

  • Ballad Singer + Andy Tracey, Richard Wargo’s Ballymore, A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute

  • Dr. Falke, Die Fledermaus, A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute

Website:
kevinspoonerbassbaritone.com

Amalia Crevani, soprano

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Milford, NJ

Photo by Diego Redel

2025 Bel Canto Season:

 

Recent and upcoming:

  • Asprano, Motezuma, Opera Neo

  • Musetta, La Bohème, Shakespeare Opera Theater

  • Finalist, 16° Concorso Internazionale Lirico, Città di Brescia - omaggio a Maria Callas

  • Soprano Soloist, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51, Aspen Summer Music Festival

  • Lauretta, Gianni Schicchi, Aspen Summer Music Festival

Perri di Christina, mezzo-soprano

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Greenwich, CT

Photo by Jiyang Chen

2025 Bel Canto Season:

Previously with Teatro Nuovo:

  • Ensemble, Callas: Past and Future

  • Ensemble, Maometto Secondo

  • Ensemble, Medea in Corinto

  • Ensemble, Tancredi

 

Recent and upcoming:

  • Alto Soloist, Mozart Requiem, Fort Greene Orchestra

  • Young Woman, Rene Orth's Love, Loss, and the Century Upon Us, Chautauqua Opera

Website:
perridichristina.com

Xavier Flory, tenor

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Nokesville, VA

Photo by Jordan Koepke

2025 Bel Canto Season:

 

Recent and upcoming:

  • Tenor Soloist, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, The Long Island Mahler Festival

  • Prince Karl Franz, The Student Prince, Toronto Operetta Theatre

  • Macduff, Macbeth, Shakespeare Opera Theatre

  • Don José, Carmen, Palisades Opera

  • Tamino, Die Zauberflöte, No Strings Theatre

John-Joseph Haney, tenor

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Chesapeake, VA

Photo by John Haney

2025 Bel Canto Season:

  • Malcolm (cover), Macbeth
    Teatro Nuovo debut

 

Recent and Upcoming:

  • Postiglione, La Fanciulla del West, The Cleveland Orchestra

  • Ottavio, Don Giovanni, The Czech National Opera

  • Ottavio, Don Giovanni, The Cleveland Institute of Music

  • Henrik, A Little Night Music, St. Petersburg Opera

  • Soldier #1, Peter Rothstein’s All is Calm, Opera Steamboat

Paul Leland Hill, bass-baritone

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Clinton, UT

Photo by Daniel Welch

2025 Bel Canto Season:

  • Servo; Banco (cover), Macbeth
    Teatro Nuovo debut

 

Recent and Upcoming:

  • Don Basilio (cover), Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Sarasota Opera

  • Jurg (cover), Stiffelio, Sarasota Opera

  • Sarastro, The Magic Flute, Opera de Metro

  • Colline, La Bohème, Opera on the James

  • Don Basilio, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Salt Marsh Opera

Website:
paullelandhill.com

Madison Holtze, soprano

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Rosemount, MN

Photo by Jonathan Conklin

2025 Bel Canto Season:

 

Recent and Upcoming:

  • Musetta (cover), La Bohème, Opera on the James

  • Pina, Jorge Sosa’s Ofrenda (first read), Opera Reading Project

  • Little Red, Little Red Riding Hood, Opera on the James YAP

  • Female Chorus, Carmen, Sioux City Symphony

  • Fairy Godmother (scene), Cendrillon, Minnesota Opera "Nymphs, Spinners and Witches" concert

Website:
madisonholtze.com