Out of nine (9) finalists, four (4) singers were awarded the Grand Prize at the 2005 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, held on March 20, 2005, Sunday at 3pm at Lincoln Center in New York (conducted by Patrick Summers, hosted by Susan Graham):

Jordan Bisch, Bass, 23 (Tri-State)
Susanna Philipps, Soprano, 23 (Mid-South)
Rodell Aure Rosel, Tenor, 29 (Western)
Lisette Oropesa, Soprano, 21 (Gulf Coast)

FYI
For a complete information about the program, including list of guest artists and judges, please scroll to the previous journal entry.

Here is the program for this Sunday’s competition:

2005 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions
March 20, 2005 – Sunday at 3pm
Lincoln Center, New York
(conducted by Patrick Summers, hosted by Susan Graham)

Mari Moriya, Soprano, 27 (Eastern)
- O luce di quest’anima, Donizetti’s Linda di Chamounix
- Der Holle Rache, Mozart’s Die Zauberflote

Joseph Kaiser, Tenor, 27 (Central)
- Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schon, Mozart’s Die Zauberflote
- Kuda, kuda, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin

Elona Ceno, Soprano, 27 (Eastern)
- Com’e bello! Quale incanto, Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia
- Come scoglio, Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte

Michele Losier, Mezzo-Soprano, 26 (Great Lakes)
- Parto, parto, Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito
- Va! laisse couler mes larmes, Massenet’s Werther

Susanna Phillips, Soprano, 23 (Mid-South)
- Je veux vivre, Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette
- Ach ich fuhl’s, Mozart’s Die Zauberflote

Rodell Aure Rosel, Tenor, 29 (Western)
- Jour et nuit, Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffman
- Aria of the Worm, Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles

INTERMISSION

Ellie Dehn, Soprano, 25 (Middle Atlantic)
- Ach, ich liebte, Mozart’s Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail
- No word from Tom, Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress

Lisette Oropesa, Soprano, 21 (Gulf Coast)
- Ruhe sanft, Mozart’s Zaide
- Una voce poco fa, Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Jordan Bisch, Bass, 23 (Tri-State)
- O wie will ich triumphieren, Mozart’s Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail
- Ves’ tabor spit, Rachmaninoff’s Aleko

GUEST ARTISTS
Sondra Radvanofsky (D’amour sull’ali rosee from Verdi’s Il Trovatore)
Morris Robinson (Come dal ciel precipita from Verdi’s Macbeth)
Garrett Sorenson & Charles Taylor (Au fond du temple saint from Bizet’s Les Pecheurs de Perles)

Judges for the 2005 Grand Finals Concert:
Sarah Billinghurst (Metropolitan Opera Assistant Manager, Artistic)
Jonathan Friend (Metropolitan Opera Artistic Administrator)
Christopher Hahn (Pittsburgh Opera Artistic Director)
Speight Jenkins (Seattle Opera General Director)
Gayletha Nichols (Executive Director of Metropolitan opera National Council Auditions)
Lenore Rosenberg (Director of Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program/Associate Artistic Administrator)
Stephen Steiner (Boston Lyric Opera Director of Productions)