Resident Artists
Bryan Hymel, tenor
AVA fourth-year resident artist
Hometown: Metairie, LAEducation: B.M. Loyola University
Competitions: grand finalist in the 2000 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Encouragement Grant from the George London Foundation for Singers in 2001, winner of the 2002 Opera Lyrica d'Orvieto Aria Competition in Perugia, Italy, a winner in the Palm Beach Opera Competition in 2002, and a winner in the 1998 Verdi Aria Competition at the Aspen Musical Festival.
Roles at AVA: Don Ottavio, Don Giovanni; Araquil, La Navarraise, Max, Der Freischütz; Boris, Kat'a Kabanova; Alfredo, La traviata .
Other roles: Pollione, Norma, Union Ave. Opera; the Duke of Mantua, Rigoletto, Opera Grand Rapids, Opera Birmingham and Aspen Opera Theater Center; Tamino, Die Zauberflôte, Opera Grand Rapids; Don Ottavio, Don Giovanni, Froh, Das Rheingold, and Arturo, Lucia di Lammermoor, New Orleans Opera Association; Ferrando, Così fan tutte, San Francisco Opera Center's Merola Program and Western Opera Theater 2001 National Tour; Pinkerton, Madama Butterfly, Nemorino, L'elisir d'amore, Almaviva, Il barbiere di Siviglia. Don Ottavio, Don Giovanni, Loyola University in New Orleans, Pinkerton, Madama Butterfly, Palm Beach Opera, the Foreign Prince, Rusalka, Wexford Opera Festival (Ireland); Guido, A Florentine Tragedy, the Bard Festival.
Upcoming engagements: Luigi, Il tabarro and Rinuccio, Gianni Schicchi, New Orleans Opera.
