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Tenor Paul Appleby, 27, is a 2009 Sara Tucker Study Grant winner and is currently in his second year of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development program. Recent performances include the Chevalier de la Force in Dialogues des Carmlélites, Martin in The Tender Land, Fenton in Falstaff and Jenik in The Bartered Bride with the Juilliard Opera, Agenore in Il Re Pastore with Opera Theater of St. Louis and Gomatz in Zaide and Lysander A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Wolf Trap Opera. On the concert stage, he has recently made his European debut in Haydn’s Die Schöpfung at the Wolfegg Festival under the baton of Manfred Honeck, a Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra debut in Bach’s St Matthew Passion conducted by James Conlon at the May Festival and his Alice Tully Hall recital debut in a performance of Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin with pianist Brian Zeger. Upcoming engagements include a Metropolitan Opera debut as Brighella in Ariadne auf Naxos, Zaide at Carnegie Hall with Ensemble ACJW and Christus in Beethoven’s Christus am Ölberge with Kent Tritle and the Sacred Music in a Sacred Space series at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola. Mr. Appleby is a National Winner of the 2009 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and holds an Artist Diploma and Master’s Degrees from the Juilliard School and a Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature and Music from the University of Notre Dame.
Soprano Tamara Wilson, 29, is a 2008 Sara Tucker Study Grant winner and an alumna of the Houston Grand Opera Studio and the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music. Her awards include first place in the 2005 Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers in Houston and finalist in the 2004 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She has recently been heard as Amelia in Un ballo in maschera at Washington National Opera and Teatre Principal de Maò in Menorca, Spain, Amelia in Simon Boccanegra and Elettra in Idomeneo with the Canadian Opera Company, Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw with Houston Grand Opera and the title role in Aida for her debut with Opera Australia. Upcoming engagements include Miss Jessel at Los Angeles Opera, her German debut at Oper Frankfurt in concert performances of Wagner’s Die Feen, Elisabeth de Valois in Don Carlos at Houston Grand Opera, Aida at Teatro Municipal de Santiago in Chile and a debut at Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse as Leonora in Il trovatore. Future seasons will see her at the Canadian Opera Company, Oper Frankfurt, Washington National Opera, Teatro Real de Madrid, Gran Teatre del Liceu and Houston Grand Opera.
