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MEREDITH ARWADY, 28, contralto, was a recipient of a Sara Tucker Study Grant in 2002, is a member of the Ryan Opera Center and Lyric Opera of Chicago ensemble and, in Chicago, has recently sung roles in La cenerentola, Die Zauberflöte and A Midsummer’s Marriage. She made her New York Philharmonic debut as the soloist in Alexander Nevsky and her Toronto Symphony debut as the alto soloist in Mahler’s 2nd Symphony. Upcoming opera engagements include Dame Quickly in Falstaff with Opera Company of Philadelphia, Gaea in Strauss’s Daphne with Santa Fe Opera, and roles in Doctor Atomic and Die Frau Ohne Schatten with Lyric Opera of Chicago. She has been a winner of grants from the Albanese and Marian Anderson Foundation and was a 2004 winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
JASON COLLINS, 33, tenor, recently made his National Symphony debut as Narraboth in a concert version of Salome and this summer make his Seattle Opera debut as the Steuermann in Die fliegende Holländer. In June of 2008 he will make his San Francisco Opera debut as Froh in Das Rheingold. He has sung Erik in Holländer with the Arizona Opera, Zinovy in Lady Macbeth with the Austin opera and the Steuermann and Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw with the Pittsburgh Opera. On the concert stage, Mr. Collins has appeared with the Pittsburgh Symphony in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, the Pacific Symphony on Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and with the American Symphony is Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Pari at Avery Fisher Hall. A native of South Carolina, Mr. Collins has received numerous awards and is a graduate of Julliard School, the Curtis Institute of Music and the Pittsburgh Opera Center.
STEPHEN COSTELLO, 25, tenor, was a recipient of a 2006 Sara Tucker Study Grant and is currently a resident artist at the Academy of Vocal Arts in his hometown of Philadelphia. At AVA he has performed such roles as Rodolfo in La bohème, Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, Ferrando in Così fan tutte and the Duke in Rigoletto. Mr. Costello made his Opera Orchestra of New York debut in Guillaume Tell and his professional stage debut as Rodolfo with Fort Worth Opera. Other engagements have included Rodolfo with the Hamburg Staatsoper, a return to Fort Worth as Edgardo in Lucia, and Leicester in Maria Stuarda with the Dallas Opera. He makes his Metropolitan Opera debut on opening night of the 2007-08 season as Arturo in a new production of Lucia and will also be covering the role of Edgardo. Other upcoming engagements include Roméo et Juliette with Baltimore Opera, Camille in The Merry Widow with the Dallas Opera, Faust in Santiago, Chile, and a return to Ft. Worth Opera as Edgardo. He recently won First Prize in the 2006 George London Foundation Competition and First Prize in the Albanese Foundation Competition.
