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MICHAEL FABIANO, 22, tenor, is a recent winner of the 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Currently a resident artist at The Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, Mr. Fabiano has performed numerous roles at AVA including the Duke in Rigoletto, Roberto in Le Villi, Lenski in Eugene Onegin and Froh in Das Rheingold. He recently made his Carnegie Hall debut as Don Antonio in Donizetti’s Don Sébastiene with Opera Orchestra of New York and appeared as Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore with the New Jersey Opera Theater. In addition to the Met National Council, he has won awards from the Albanese Foundation, the George London Foundation and several other competitions. In the summer of 2007 he will make his debut as Alfredo in La traviata in Klagenfurt, Austria.

AMANDA MAJESKI, 22, soprano, is currently pursuing her Master’s at the Curtis Institute of Music where she recently performed Magda in La rondine and roles in L’Ormido and Postcard from Morocco. A graduate of Northwestern, she has been a Young Artist with Opera Theater of St. Louis as well as vocal programs at Chatauqua and Rivinia. She will make her Weill Hall recital debut in January 2008 under the auspices of the Marilyn Horne Foundation and her Opera Company of Philadelphia debut as the Countess Ceprano in Rigoletto.

LISETTE OROPESA, 23, soprano, was a winner of the 2005 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and is currently in the second year of the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. A graduate of Louisiana State University, she sang lead roles in Il barbiere di Siviglia, La rondine and Le nozze di Figaro while at LSU. She has performed with the Louisiana Sinfonietta, the Baton Rouge Symphony and the New Choral Society. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in September 2006 as the Cretan Woman in Idomeneo and will be heard in Suor Angelica. Upcoming engagements include a concert with the Manchester Music Festival and Gilda in Rigoletto with the New Orleans Opera.

ALEK SHRADER, 25, tenor, is a graduate student at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He made his professional debut last summer as Almaviva in The Barber of Seville with Opera Theater of St. Louis and, January, his New York debut with Gotham Chamber Opera in Rossini’s Il signor Bruschino. In June he will join the Merola Opera Program in San Francisco and sing the role of Ramiro in Rossini’s La cenerentola. Next fall he will attend the Julliard Opera Center where he will perform lead roles in Rossini’s Le Comte Ory and Rorem’s Our Town.