Resident Artists
Octavio Moreno, baritone
AVA third-year resident artist
Birthplace: Hermosillo, MexicoEducation: Universidad de Sonora
Competitions: first prize, VIII Premio Ciudad Trujillo Competition, Peru; grand prize winner, 2002 Mariana de Gonitch Voice Competition, Havana; Young Artist Prize, 2002 Carlo Morelli Voice Competition, Mexico City
Roles at AVA: title role, Don Giovanni; Guglielmo, Le villi; title role, Rigoletto, Figaro, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Le Bretigny, Manon, Renato, Un ballo in maschera (Act ll)
Other roles: Germont, La traviata, Belcore, L'elisir d'amore, Vidal, Luisa Fernanda, Conte Almaviva, Le nozze di Figaro (all in Hermosillo, MX), d'Obigny, La traviata (cover); Yamadori, Madama Butterfly
