KEELY FUTTERER, soprano

HOMETOWN: Dover, AR

TRAINING: Minnesota Opera; The Glimmerglass Festival; Opera Memphis; Tulsa Opera; Opera Saratoga; Eastman School of Music

HIGHLIGHTS: Elle (La Voix Humaine), Eastman School of Music; Adina (L’elisir d’amore) Opera in the Ozarks; Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Eastman School of Music; Marie (La fille du régiment), Opera Saratoga; Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Opera Memphis; Angostura LaBelle (Tenor Overboard), The Glimmerglass Festival; Armida (Rinaldo), The Glimmerglass Festival; Léontine (The Anonymous Lover), Madison Opera; Musetta (La bohème), Minnesota Opera

GABRIELLE BETEAG, alto

HOMETOWN: Atlanta, GA

TRAINING: Merola Opera Program; Adler Fellowship, San Francisco Opera; Chautauqua Opera; Georgia State University

HIGHLIGHTS: Iras (Antony and Cleopatra), San Francisco Opera; Mercédès (Carmen), The Atlanta Opera; Woman with Hat/Duchess (The Ghosts of Versailles), Chautauqua Opera; Grand Finals Winner, Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions

RICARDO GARCIA, tenor*^{^}

HOMETOWN: Hayward, CA

TRAINING: Staatstheater Darmstadt; Houston Grand Opera; Wolf Trap Opera (Studio ’17, ’18; Filene ’21); Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Program; Central City Opera; Aspen Music Festival

HIGHLIGHTS: Lenski (Eugene Onegin), Staatstheater Darmstadt; Alfredo (La traviata), Staatstheater Darmstadt, Houston Grand Opera; Oronte (Alcina), Staatstheater Darmstadt; Cassio (Otello), Staatstheater Darmstadt; Roméo (Roméo et Juliette), Houston Grand Opera; Schmidt (Werther), Houston Grand Opera; Third Jew (Salome), Houston Grand Opera; Remendado (Carmen), Houston Grand Opera

BLAKE DENSON, baritone^{^}

HOMETOWN: Paducah, KY

TRAINING: Houston Grand Opera Studio; Rice University; Wolf Trap Opera (Studio ’19, ’20)

HIGHLIGHTS: Ford (Falstaff), Houston Grand Opera; Prince Yamadori (Madama Butterfly), the Metropolitan Opera; Pastor/Kaboom (Fire Shut Up In My Bones), the Metropolitan Opera; Larkens (La fanciulla del West), Bayerische Staatsoper; Schaunard (La bohème), Washington National Opera; Donner (Das Rheingold), English National Opera; Grand Finals Winner, Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (2020); Winner, The George London Foundation Award

* returning Filene Artist
^{^} former Studio Artist