Resident Artists
Wes Mason, baritone
AVA fourth-year Resident Artist
Hometown: Norfolk, Virginia
Education: B.M. in Voice Performance, University of Michigan
Competitions: Finalist, Opera Index Competition, 2012; Encouragement Award (Sixth Prize), Loren L. Zachary Society Vocal Competition, 2012; Nominee, Sara Tucker Study Grant, 2012, 2010, and 2009; Second Place, Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (Mid-South Region), 2008; Encouragement Award, Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (Kansas District), 2009.
Roles at AVA: title role, Eugene Onegin; Figaro, Il barbiere di Siviglia; Belcore, L'elisir d'amore; Pelléas, Pelléas et Mélisande; Luther, Les Contes d'Hoffmann; Masetto and Don Giovanni (cover), Don Giovanni; Count Lamoral and Count Dominik, Arabella; Captain, The Scarlet Letter; Olivier, Capriccio.
Other Roles: Morales, Carmen; Mac and Frank Butler (cover), Annie Get Your Gun, both with the Glimmerglass Festival; Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls (world premiere), Fort Worth Opera; Schaunard, La bohème, Crested Butte Music Festival; Le Dancaïre, Carmen, Michigan Opera Theatre; Sid, Albert Herring; Onegin, Eugene Onegin; Man with Shoe Sample Kit, Postcard from Morocco; Marcello, La bohème, all with the University of Michigan; Marcello, La bohème; Cascada, The Merry Widow; First Geezer and Bion, Lysistrata, all with the Seagle Music Colony; Marchesse d’Obigny, La traviata; Perichaud, La Rondine; both with Michigan Opera Theatre; The Prince, The Goose Girl, Motor City Lyric Opera; Jester, Sleeping Beauty; Paris and Gregorio (cover), Roméo et Juliette; Servant of Flora, La traviata; St. Brioche (cover), The Merry Widow, all with Virginia Opera.
Upcoming: Marcello, La bohème, Fort Worth Opera, May 2013; Masetto, Don Giovanni, Opera Philadelphia, Spring 2014.
Website: www.wesmasonstage.com