Resident Artists
Olivia Vote, mezzo-soprano
AVA second year resident artist
Hometown: St. Mary’s City, Md.
Education: B.A., North Carolina School of the Arts, M. M., Yale University
Competitions: Regional Finalist, Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, 2008; Phyllis Curtin Career Award, Yale University School of Music.
Roles at AVA: Meg Page, Falstaff; Lucilla, La fiamma; Giovanna Seymour, Anna Bolena.
Other Roles: Dido, Dido and Aeneas with the Abla Music Festival, Italy; Cherubino, Le Nozze di Figaro, Piedmont Opera; Prince Orlofsky, Die Fledermaus, Judith, Bluebeard’s Castle, Olga, Eugene Onegin, Eva, Martinů’s Comedy on the Bridge, Cherubino, Le nozze di Figaro, Baba the Turk, The Rake’s Progress, L’Opinon Publique, Orphée aux Enfers, all at Yale University. At the North Carolina School of the Arts, Miss Bingley in the world premiere of the first act of Kirke Mechem’s opera, Pride and Prejudice. With the Gerdine Young Artist Program at The Opera Theater of St. Louis, the Aunt in Madame Butterfly and Nicklausse (cover) in The Tales of Hoffmann. Concert appearances include Brahms’ Liebeslieder Walzer, Bach’s Cantata 199 Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Beethoven’s Mass in C-major with the Romanian State Orchestra. Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and Handel’s Messiah.
