Resident Artists
Alex Lawrence, baritone
AVA second-year resident artist
Hometown: Weston, MAEducation: B. M. in Voice, Northwestern University
Competitions:Encouragement Grant, Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation '08; Finalist, Concorso Lirico di G. Martinelli and A. Pertile, Montagnana, Italy; third place in the 2008 Gerda Lissner Foundation International Vocal Competition; first place winner of the 2007 American Opera Society Scholarship in Men's Voice.
Roles at AVA: Guglielmo, Cosi fan tutte; title role, Elijah (Part l); Giorgio Germont, La traviata; Dottor Malatesta, Don Pasquale
Roles: Captain Corcoran, HMS Pinafore, Elder Ott, Susannah, both with Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre; Tagliaferro, La Buona Figliuola, (Teatro Piccinni, Bari, Italy), the Marquis, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Zweiter Priester, The Magic Flute, Falke, Die Fledermaus, Second Vagabond, Die Kluge, all with Northwestern University;l Il Conte di Almaviva, Le nozze di Figaro, Oberlin in Italy Program.
