Resident Artists
Nicholas Masters, bass
AVA third-year resident artist
Hometown: New Canaan, Conn.
Education: B. M. in Vocal Performance, McGill University; M. M., Yale University School of Music, Banff Center Opera as Theatre Program; Glimmerglass Opera Young Artists Program; Wolf Trap Opera Filene Young Artists program.
Competitions: Encouragement Award Winner – Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Middle Atlantic Region 2010
Roles at AVA: Colline, La bohème; Direktor, Capriccio; Lord Rochefort, Anna Bolena; Raimondo, Lucia di Lammermoor.
Other Roles: Bottom, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tempo/Nettuno, Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, Benoit/Alcindoro, La bohème, all with Wolf Trap Opera; Bottom, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Banff Centre; Baron Bluebeard, Bluebeard’s Castle; Don Inigo Gomez, L’Heure Espagnole, Frank, Die Fledermaus, Colline/Benoit/Alcindoro, La bohème, Luka, The Bear, all with Yale Opera; Rambaldo, La Rondine, and Drebednyov, Moskva Cheremushki (Shostakovich); Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi; Le Comte de Breville (cover), The Greater Good (world premiere), Glimmerglass Opera; Talpa, Il Tabarro, Baron/Inquisitor/Croupier, Candide, John Winslow, Evangeline (world premiere), Lagimodiere/Poundmaker, Louis Riel, Nettuno, Il Ritorno D’Ulisse in Patria, all with Opera McGill; Sarastro/Speaker, The Magic Flute, Summer Opera Lyric Theater, Toronto.
