The Gerda Lissner Foundation

...encouragement and assistance to young opera artists ...

2013 PRIZE WINNERS

GENERAL DIVISION

TOP PRIZE: $15,000

  • Anthony Evans, baritone
  • Sydney Mancasola, soprano 
  • Takaoki Onishi, baritone

FIRST PRIZE: $10,000

  • Deanna Breiwick, soprano
  • Ying Fang, soprano
  • John Holiday, counter tenor 
  • Evan Hughes, bass baritone
  • Chloe Moore, soprano

SECOND PRIZE: $5,000

  • Adam Bonanni, tenor
  • Jennifer Cano Johnson, mezzo soprano
  • Jeongcheol Cha, bass baritone
  • Dominick Chenes, tenor
  • Juan Jose De Leon, tenor
  • Norman Garrett, baritone
  • Anthony J. Kalil, tenor 
  • Yasmine Levi-Ellentuck, soprano
  • Jonathan Winell, tenor

THIRD PRIZE: $3,000

  • Susannah C. Biller, soprano
  • Tobias Lee Greenhalgh, baritone 
  • Cecilia Hall, mezzo soprano 
  • Mingjie Lei, tenor
  • Yi Li, tenor
  • Jamez McCorkle, baritone 
  • Emmett O'Hanlon, baritone

ENCOURAGEMENT: $2,000

  • Raquel Gonzalez, soprano 
  • Liana Guberman, soprano 
  • Vanessa Isiguen, soprano 
  • Shelley Jackson, soprano 
  • Andrew Kroes, bass
  • Maya Lahyani, mezzo soprano 
  • Heather Phillips, soprano 
  • Sean Michael Plumb, baritone 
  • Diego Silva, tenor
  • Sean M. Sullivan, baritone 
  • Benjamin R. Wager, bass 
  • Melinda Whittington, soprano 

WAGNERIAN DIVISION

FIRST PRIZE: $10,000

  • Noah Baetge, tenor 
  • Marcy Stonikas, soprano

THIRD PRIZE: $3,000

  • Jenni Lattila, soprano 
  • Anders Haakansson, tenor