The 53rd George and Nora London Foundation Competition for young American and Canadian opera singers has announced the winners.

A total of $74,000 was  Of 12 finalists, five were named winners with a prize of $12,000 each. The remaining seven singers were awarded the George London Encouragement Awards of $2,000 each.

The winners included tenor Alec Carlson, soprano Shelén Hughes, soprano Magdalena Kuźma, bass-baritone Evan Lazdowski, and bass-baritone Joseph Parrish.

The encouragement winners were soprano Emily Damasco, bass-baritone Sam Dhobhany, mezzo-soprano Ruby Dibble, soprano Rachel Kobernick, soprano Dalia Medovnikov, bartione Korin Thomas-Smith, and bass Alan Williams.

The competition saw each finalist perform one selection. Winners were announced to the audience immediately after the judges’ deliberations. This year’s judges included soprano Harolyn Blackwell, mezzo-soprano Susan Quittmeyer, tenor Dimitri Pittas, bass James Morris, and Gayletha Nichols, soprano and former Executive Director of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, who chaired the jury. Lachlan Glen was the competition’s pianist.

Past winners include Joyce DiDonato, Renée Fleming, Christine Goerke, Ryan Speedo Green, Catherine Malfitano, James Morris, Eric Owens, Dimitri Pittas, Matthew Polenzani, Sondra Radvanovsky, Neil Shicoff, Dawn Upshaw, and Willard White.

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