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ARTIST PROFILES
and Beaumarchais/
The Ghosts of Versailles.
David Govertsen is sponsored by
Mrs. J. W.
Van Gorkom.
A North Carolina native and second-year Ryan
Opera Center member, mezzo-soprano
CECELIA HALL
appeared at Lyric Opera last
season in
Lucia di Lammermoor
(
debut),
Aida
,
Die Zauberflöte
,
and
Rinaldo.
She returns this
season in
Elektra
and
Werther
.
She has recently
earned acclaim at the Castleton Festival (
Il barbi-
ere di Siviglia
,
following her previous Castleton
success in
L’enfant et les sortilèges
),
Chicago
Opera Theater (the title role/Handel’s
Teseo
),
and
Valencia’s Palau de les Arts (Composer/
Ariadne
auf Naxos
,
European debut). Other important per-
formances include
Iphigénie en Tauride
(
Metropolitan Opera),
Ariadne auf Naxos
(
Tanglewood), and leading roles of Monteverdi,
Handel, Mozart, and Ravel (all at The Juilliard
School). Hall has appeared in recital at
Glimmerglass Opera and London’s Wigmore
Hall. She recently performed with the New York
Philharmonic and with Ensemble ACJW at
Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall. Her awards include
a 2011 Richard Tucker Foundation Sara Tucker
Study Grant.
Cecelia Hall is sponsored by the
Donna Van Eekeren Foundation.
Detroit-born tenor
BERNARD HOLCOMB
,
a
second-year Ryan Opera Center member,
appeared in no fewer than six productions at
Lyric Opera last season, beginning with his debut
in
Les contes d’Hoffmann
.
He returns to the
Lyric stage in 2012-13 in
Simon Boccanegra,
Don Pasquale
,
and
La bohème
.
Holcomb has
been heard at the Pine Mountain Music Festival
as Paolino/
Il matrimonio segreto
and Alfredo/
La
traviata
.
He was previously an apprentice artist
and Studio Program member at Sarasota Opera.
His Michigan Opera Theatre roles include
Gastone/
La traviata
and both Nelson and the
Crab Man/
Porgy and Bess.
In the latter opera
Holcomb has toured throughout Germany and
Eastern Europe. Among the tenor’s orchestral
engagements have been appearances with the
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, University
Symphony Orchestra/Ann Arbor, and Rochester
Philharmonic. A former District winner in the
Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions,
Holcomb is an alumnus of the Eastman School
of Music and The University of Michigan.
Bernard Holcomb is sponsored by
Anne Gross
,
Lois B. Siegel
,
and
Drs. Joan and Russ
Zajtchuk.
Korean baritone
JOSEPH LIM
,
a second-year
Ryan Opera Center member, is appearing this
season at Lyric Opera as Schaunard/
La bohème
and Marullo/
Rigoletto
.
He was featured with
the company last season in
Les contes
d’Hoffmann
(
debut) and
Boris Godunov
.
His
performances have extended stylistically from
Handel’s
Messiah
to Mozart’s
Don Giovanni
(
title role) and
Die Zauberflöte
(
Papageno),
Wagner’s
Das Liebesverbot
(
leading role of
Friedrich – West Coast premiere),
Un ballo in
maschera
(
as Silvano), and Mahler’s
Symphony
No. 8.
Lim has given recitals and concerts
through the Opera Association of Los Angeles,
Palm Springs Opera Guild, Opera Buffs Inc.,
and the Music Academy of the West. An alum-
nus of the University of Southern California, he
was a 2011 Grand Finals winner in the
Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions
and a 2010 Encouragement Award winner in the
Marilyn Horne Song Competition and the
Loren L. Zachary National Competition.
Joseph
Lim is sponsored by an
Anonymous Donor.
Baritone
WILL LIVERMAN
,
a Virginia
native and a first-year Ryan Opera Center mem-
ber, performs at Lyric Opera this season in
Werther
(
debut) and
La bohèm
e. Liverman has
been heard at New York’s Juilliard School as
James Meredith/Peter Maxwell Davies’s
Kommilitonen!
(
U.S. premiere) and in
Gianni
Schicchi
and
L’incoronazione di Poppea
.
As an
apprentice artist at The Santa Fe Opera,
Liverman made his company debut as the
Protestant Minister/ Menotti’s
The Last Savage
.
The Wheaton College (IL) alumnus has
appeared at the Glimmerglass Festival in
Tosca
and
The Tender Land
and at the Brevard Music
Festival in
Gianni Schicchi
(
title role),
Die
Zauberflöte
,
and
Little Women
.
He recently
made his Alice Tully Hall debut in recital with
the New York Festival of Song. A 2012 Grand
Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National
Council Auditions, he has won an unprecedent-
ed three first-prize awards from the Chicago
National Association of Teachers of Singing
Competition.
Will Liverman is sponsored by
The
Pauls Foundation.
