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Limmie Pulliam
Tenor
Manrico (Sep 18-Oct 3)

From: Kennett, Missouri.
LA Opera: debut.
Career highlights: This season, he performs the title role of Otello with Livermore Valley Opera and Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana with Vashon Opera, where he previously performed Canio in Pagliacci. He also appears in concert with Lyric Opera of Kansas City and joins the Memphis Symphony for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. During the shortened 2019/20 season, he appeared in concerts with the Springfield Regional Opera and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, was featured at the 65th Annual Viennese Opera Ball in New York and appeared in recital in Charlotte and at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Other recent highlights include the title role of Otello (a role he has covered with Canadian Opera Company and Washington National Opera) with the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice and Springfield Regional Opera, and the Verdi Requiem with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra.
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Gregory Kunde
Tenor
Manrico (Oct 6-10)

From: Kankakee, Illinois.
LA Opera: debut.
Career highlights: His appearances this season include the title role of Otello at the Vienna State Opera, a gala with the Dallas Opera, Canio in Pagliacci in Dresden, the title role of Ernani in Piacenza, Calaf in Turandot in Hamburg, and Énée in Les Troyens in Munich. Recent highlights include the title role of Otello at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opéra National de Paris and Opéra de Monte-Carlo; Calaf in Turandot in Barcelona and Madrid; Jean de Leyden in Le Prophète at the Deutsche Oper Berlin; Samson in Samson et Dalila at the Metropolitan Opera; the title role of Andrea Chénier and Radames in Aida at the Vienna State Opera; and a return to the podium to conduct The Barber of Seville at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. He was recognized as “Male Singer of the Year” at the 2016 International Opera Awards.  
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Guanqun Yu
Soprano
Leonora

From: Shandong, China.
LA Opera: Rosina in The Ghosts of Versailles (2015, debut); Countess in The Marriage of Figaro (2015); Vitellia in The Clemency of Titus (2019).
Career highlights: She appears regularly at the most prestigious opera houses worldwide and made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Leonora in Il Trovatore in 2012. Later this season, she will perform Liu in Turandot at the Opéra National de Paris and at Hamburg State Opera. Highlights of recent seasons include the title role of Luisa Miller at the Frankfurt Opera; Desdemona in Otello at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Hamburg State Opera; Mimi in La Bohème in Munich and Zürich; Liu in Turandot, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Micaela in Carmen and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera; concert performances as Lucrezia in The Two Foscari at the Salzburg Festival and in Munich and Budapest; Mathilde in Guillaume Tell in Hamburg; and Leonora in Il Trovatore at the Teatro Comunale Bologna.
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Raehann Bryce-Davis
Mezzo-soprano
Azucena

From: Keene, Texas.
LA Opera: Big Stone in Eurydice (2020, debut); Sara in Roberto Devereux (2020); the Digital Short Brown Sounds (2021).
Career highlights: Engagements this season include the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Preziosilla in La Forza del Destino at Théâtre du Capitole, Azucena at the Glimmerglass Festival and Staatstheater Nürnberg, a concert at the Glimmerglass Festival singing selections of Wagner’s Ortrud and Fricka, as well as company debuts at Teatro alla Scala as Ulrica in Un Ballo in Maschera, at La Monnaie in Brussels as La Zia Principessa in Suor Angelica, and at Theater St. Gallen as Joan of Arc in Tchaikovsky’s Maid of Orleans. Highlights of recent seasons include her music video To the Afflicted, the Grammy-nominated Sanctuary Road with Oratorio Society of New York, Eboli in Don Carlos at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Verdi’s Requiem with the Montreal Symphony and with Oratorio Society of New York at Carnegie Hall, and Léonor in La Favorite in Palermo.
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Vladimir Stoyanov
Baritone
Count di Luna

From: Pernik, Bulgaria.
LA Opera: debut.
Career highlights: 
In August, he performed the title role of Rigoletto at the Bregenz Festival. Other recent appearances include Don Carlo in Ernani with Opera Australia, and both Scarpia in Tosca and Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. Later this season, he will return to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as Germont in La Traviata. His 1998 Italian debut in Naples in the title role of Macbeth quickly led to engagements at the major opera houses around the world: La Scala in Milan (La Forza del Destino, La Traviata), Staatsoper Berlin (Macbeth, La Traviata, L’Elisir d’Amore, La Bohème), Vienna State Opera (La Traviata), Deutsche Oper Berlin (Lucia di Lammermoor), the Metropolitan Opera (Lucia di Lammermoor, The Queen of Spades), the Bavarian State Opera in Munich (La Traviata) and San Francisco Opera (La Traviata).VladimirStoyanov.info

Morris Robinson
Bass
Ferrando

From: Atlanta, Georgia.
LA Opera: Sarastro in The Magic Flute (2009, debut); Fasolt in Das Rheingold (2009, 2010); Oroveso in Norma (2016); Osmin in The Abduction from the Seraglio (2017); Zaccaria in Nabucco (2017); Sparafucile in Rigoletto (2018); Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlo (2018); Parsi Rustomji in Satyagraha (2018); Tiresias in Oedipus Rex (2021). He will return later this season as Hermann in Tannhäuser and as Ramfis in Aida.
Career highlights: He is the Artistic Advisor at Cincinnati Opera. He regularly performs leading roles at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera and Seattle Opera, among many others. He has appeared in concert with the New York Philharmonic, LA Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (2015/16 Artist in Residence). Upcoming appearances include Sarastro in The Magic Flute at the Met and Nourabad in The Pearl Fishers in Dallas.
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Tiffany Townsend
Soprano
Ines

From: Jackson, Mississippi.
LA Opera: mainstage debut, after previously performing the leading role of Léontine in The Anonymous Lover (2020). She joined the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program in 2019.
Career highlights: Earlier this year, she performed the role of Katherine in Douglas Pew's Penny with Opera Grand Rapids. Later this season, she will be a featured soloist in George Walker's Lilacs with Opera Philadelphia. Recent appearances include her professional debut as Princess Ninette in The Love for Three Oranges with Opera Philadelphia, Brenda in Rene Orth’s Empty the House (a co-production of the Curtis Opera Theatre and Opera Philadelphia) and the Dream Variation concert with Long Beach Opera. She studied at the Curtis Institute of Music, The Juilliard School, and Millsaps College. 
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Anthony Ciaramitaro
Tenor
Ruiz

From: Coral Springs, Florida.
LA Opera: Lord Cecil in Roberto Devereux (2020, mainstage debut); Orpheus in The Death of Orpheus (2020). He joined the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program in 2019. He will return as Heinrich der Schreiber in Tannhäuser.
Career highlights: A 2019 national semifinalist of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and a 2021 Tenor Viñas Contest finalist, he recently performed Tamino in The Magic Flute at the Aspen Musical Festival. In 2018 and 2019 he was an apprentice with the Santa Fe Opera, where he performed the role of Toke in the world premiere of Poul Ruders' The Thirteenth Child. He was an Apprentice Artist at Palm Beach Opera, and a Studio Artist with Arizona Opera, where his roles included Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville and the Governor and Vanderdendur in Candide. He performed Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola as a member of the Merola Opera Program and was a studio artist with Chautauqua Opera and Wolf Trap Opera.

Orson Van Gay II
Tenor
Messenger

From: Southern California.
LA Opera: mainstage debut after performances including Bernard Curson (Cherubino) in ¡Figaro! (90210) (2015), and numerous Connects performances including the title role of Nathan Wang’s Orpheus and Dick Johnson in The Prospector. 
Career highlights: Recent appearances include Raymond Santana in Anthony Davis's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Central Park Five at Long Beach Opera, Orlando in The Industry’s Hopscotch, the title role of Candide at A Noise Within, and Nemorino in L'Elisir d’Amore with Center Stage Opera. He has appeared with Pacific Opera Project as Alfredo in La Traviata and Rodolfo in La Bohème. He performed the lead role of Ben in Todd Goodman’s operatic version of Night of the Living Dead at the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center. OrsonVanGay.com