Meet the 2017 Mary Ragland Young Artists

 

sopranocourtney RuckmanNashville Opera DebutCentral City Opera, Opera Coeur d’Alene, Seattle Opera Guild, Opera Idaho, Astoria Music Festival

soprano
courtney Ruckman

Nashville Opera Debut

Central City Opera, Opera Coeur d’Alene, Seattle Opera Guild, Opera Idaho, Astoria Music Festival

BaritoneMakoto WInklerNashville Opera DebutGlimmerglass Opera, Central City Opera, Knoxville Opera, Janiec Opera Company, University of Tennessee Opera

Baritone
Makoto WInkler

Nashville Opera Debut

Glimmerglass Opera, Central City Opera, Knoxville Opera, Janiec Opera Company, University of Tennessee Opera

mezzo-sopranoMelissa BonettiNashville Opera DebutDayton Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Kentucky Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Cincinnati Opera

mezzo-soprano
Melissa Bonetti

Nashville Opera Debut

Dayton Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Kentucky Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Cincinnati Opera

pianistStephen VariamesNashville Opera DebutOpera Theater Pittsburgh, Cincinnati Opera, Opera in the Ozarks, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Oklahoma City University

pianist
Stephen Variames

Nashville Opera Debut

Opera Theater Pittsburgh, Cincinnati Opera, Opera in the Ozarks, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Oklahoma City University

tenorZachary DevinNashville Opera DebutDayton Opera, Gulf Shore Opera, Western Plains Opera, Union Avenue Opera, Janiec Opera Company

tenor
Zachary Devin

Nashville Opera Debut

Dayton Opera, Gulf Shore Opera, Western Plains Opera, Union Avenue Opera, Janiec Opera Company