The George and Nora London Foundation announced the winners of its 54th annual competition for young American and Canadian opera singers.

The winners included Tiffany Choe, Adia Evans, Anna Thompson, Trevor Haumschilt-Rocha, Korin Thomas-Smith, and Nicholas Newton.

Choe, a Washington National Opera Cafritz Young Artist alum, delivered Puccini’s “Senza mamma” from “Suor Angelica.” Evans, currently in her second year at Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center, performed Strauss’s “Es gibt ein Reich” from “Ariadne auf Naxos.” Thompson, a first-year Resident Artist at the Academy of Vocal Arts, sang Massenet’s “Dis-moi que je suis belle” from “Thaïs.” Haumschilt-Rocha, a Vienna Volksoper studio member who debuted at Salzburg in 2025, offered Korngold’s “Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen.” Thomas-Smith, recently named among CBC Music’s 30 hot classical musicians under 30, performed Rossini’s “Come un’ape ne’ giorni d’aprile.” Finally,Bass-baritone Nicholas Newton, set for his Metropolitan Opera debut this season, closed the winners’ circle with Rachmaninoff’s “Aleko’s Cavatina.”

Encouragement Awards went to soprano Jennifer Robinson, mezzo-sopranos Grace Ryan and Maiya Williams, and tenor Matthew Sink.

A total of $80,000 was distributed across ten finalists — selected from 180 applicants — with six receiving George London Awards of $12,000 each and four receiving Encouragement Awards of $2,000 each.

This year’s jury, chaired by soprano and former Met Council Auditions executive director Gayletha Nichols, featured mezzo-soprano Susan Quittmeyer, tenor Dimitri Pittas, bass James Morris, and IMG Artists SVP Matthew Horner, with John Arida at the piano.