Noah B. Rogers, baritone

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Boonville, MO

Photo by Alexa Garcia

2026 Bel Canto Season:

Recent & Upcoming:

  • Álvaro, Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas, Boston University Opera Institute

  • The Baker, Into the Woods, Opera North

  • Pandolfe, Cendrillon, BU Opera Institute

  • Maestro Spinelloccio, Gianni Schicchi, Cedar Rapids Opera

  • Judas, Stephen Schwartz’s Godspell, St. Ignatius Concert Series

Elizabeth Novella, soprano

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New York, NY

Photo by Fay Walsh

2026 Bel Canto Season:

Previously with Teatro Nuovo:

Recent & Upcoming:

  • Mimì, La Bohème, St. Pete Opera

  • Micaëla, Carmen, St, Pete Opera

  • Antonia, Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Aspen Music Festival

  • Susanna, Le Nozze di Figaro, The Muses Project

  • Giannetta, L'Elisir d'Amore, Sarasota Opera

Kresley Figueroa, soprano

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San Juan, PR

Photo by Soloman Howard

Teatro Nuovo debut:

Recent & Upcoming:

  • Frida Image #1, El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, The Metropolitan Opera

  • Mary Warren, The Crucible, Washington National Opera

  • Partenope, Partenope, Washington National OperaNannetta, Falstaff, The Aspen Music Festival

  • Zerlina, Don Giovanni, OPERA San Antonio

Scott Hetz Clark, baritone

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Leesburg, VA

2026 Bel Canto Season:

Previously with Teatro Nuovo:

Recent & Upcoming:

  • Méphistophélès (cover), Faust, Annapolis Opera

  • Yakuside, Madama Butterfly, Sarasota Opera

  • Title role, Don Giovanni, Prague Summer Nights-Young Artists Music Festival

  • Falke, Die Fledermaus, Lyric Opera Studio Weimar

Mattia Venni, bass-baritone

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Brescia, Italy

Photo by Steven Smith

2026 Bel Canto Season:

Previously with Teatro Nuovo:

Recent & Upcoming:

  • Figaro, Le Nozze di Figaro, Sarasota Opera, Amarillo Opera

  • Sergeant Sulpice, La fille du Régiment, Opera Santa Barbara

  • Dulcamara, L’elisir d’Amore; Il re, Aida; Teatro Aminitore Galli

  • Antonio, Le Nozze di Figaro, Santa Fe Opera

  • Angelotti, Tosca, Parnassus Society

Website:
mattiavenni.com

Sedona Libero, mezzo-soprano

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Phoenix, AZ

Photo by sigmasnapsphoto

2026 Bel Canto Season:

Previously with Teatro Nuovo:

Recent & Upcoming:

  • Tisbe; Angelina (cover), La Cenerentola, Arizona Opera

  • Kate Pinkerton, Madama Butterfly, Arizona Opera

  • Mezzo-Soprano soloist, Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Scottsdale Symphonic Orchestra

Justin E. Bell, tenor

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Jackson, MS

2026 Bel Canto Season:

Recent & Upcoming:

  • Tenor soloist, Mozart’s Requiem, Carnegie Hall - National Concerts

  • Title Role, Emmett Till: An Opera in Three Acts, Opera Southern

  • Tenor soloist, Haydn’s Mass in Time of War — “Paukenmesse,” Carnegie Hall - National Concerts

  • Don Curzio and Basilio, Le Nozze di Figaro, Chautauqua Opera Conservatory

  • Ruggiero, La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina, Manhattan School of Music

Hans Tashjian, bass-baritone

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New York, NY

Photo by Lyndon England

2026 Bel Canto Season:

Previously with Teatro Nuovo:

  • Callistene, Poliuto

  • Maometto Secondo, Maometto Secondo^

  • Figaro, Il Barbiere di Siviglia

  • Podestà, La Gazza Ladra

  • Soloist, Callas: Past and Future

  • Soloist, Rossini’s Stabat Mater

Recent & Upcoming:

  • Faraone, Mosè in Egitto, Opera Southwest

  • Sorceress, Dido and Aeneas, Opera Lafayette

  • Count Ceprano, Rigoletto, The Metropolitan Opera

  • Alcindoro, La Bohème, Sarasota Opera

  • Araspe, Tolomeo, Opera Essentia

Website:
hanstashjian.com

Meghan Linnington, mezzo-soprano

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Toronto, ON

Photo by Stuart Lowe

2026 Bel Canto Season:

Recent & Upcoming:

  • Alto Soloist, Messiah, Claremont Symphony Orchestra

  • Spirit, Die Zauberflӧte, The Glenn Gould School Spring Opera at Koerner Hall

  • Soloist & Gold Medalist, The RCM Celebration of Excellence Recital at Carnegie Hall, The Royal Conservatory of Music

  • Soloist & Classical Grand Prize Finalist, Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Music Center’s 36th Annual Spotlight Awards

  • Little Red Ridinghood, Into the Woods, Tulsa Opera

Gabrielle Barkidjija, mezzo-soprano

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Chicago, IL

Photo by Kristyna Gocova

2026 Bel Canto Season:

Recent & Upcoming:

  • Mezzo-soprano, Carnegie Hall Citywide

  • RecitalInez, Il Trovatore, Sarasota Opera

  • Mrs. Ott, Susannah, Sarasota Opera

  • Meg Page, Falstaff, Geneva Light Opera

  • Mezzo-soprano soloist, Copland's In the Beginning, Lincoln Center

Website:
gabriellebarkidjija.com