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 {…}
The George and Nora London Foundation Competition has released updates regarding the 2025 final competition. This year, the final round of the competition for American and Canadian opera singers will be open to the public and will be made available via live stream. A dozen competitors will perform in the final round with pianist Lachlan Glen before a panel of {…}
The 2024-25 season of the George and Nora London Foundation for Singers will present the 53rd edition of the foundation’s annual competition. The final round of the competition, which is open to the public, takes place on Feb. 21, 2025, at the Morgan Library and Museum. Approximately a dozen singers compete for five George London Awards of $12,000 each. Those {…}
The George and Nora London Foundation Competition for American and Canadian opera singers will hold its 52nd event in 2024, with a public final round at New York’s Morgan Library and Museum on Feb. 16. The finals will also be live-streamed free of charge on the foundation’s website and YouTube channel. The event will confer its George London Award of {…}
(Photo credit: Ken Benson) The George and Nora London Foundation has been gifted $215,000 from the estate of Lois Kirschenbaum. The foundation made the news public on Jan. 8, which would have been Nora London’s 100th birthday. The contribution goes towards cash prizes for foundation’s competition, allowing approximately a dozen singers to compete for George London Awards of $12,000 each. {…}
The George and Nora London Foundation for Singers concludes its season of events with a recital by baritone Benjamin Taylor. The recital will also include pianist Katelan Terrell and will be performed on April 16, 2023, at The Morgan Library & Museum. Taylor is a 2018 George London Award winner who has won critical praise and has performed at the {…}
The winners of the 51st George and Nora London Foundation Competition for young American and Canadian opera singers have been announced. Following the competition, which took place at the Gilder Lehrman Hall at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City, was livestreamed on the George and Nora London Foundation YouTube channel. The George London Awards for $12,000 were: {…}
The George and Nora London Foundation Competition has announced the finalists for its competition set for Feb. 17 at the The Morgan Library Museum’s Gilder Lehrman Hall. The finals will be streamed at 4 p.m. on the organization’s website and facebook page. The following are the finalists and their repertoire choices. Alexander McKissick, tenor “Se all’impero amici dei” from Mozart’s {…}
The George and Nora London Foundation Competition for American and Canadian opera singers will hold its 51st event in 2023 with an in-person audience. The organization said that for the first time since 2020, it will hold its final round at New York’s Morgan Library and Museum on Friday, Feb. 17. The finals will also be live streamed free of {…}
Mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis is a soulful voice of triumph, transformation, and timeless wisdom. With notable house and role debuts, including the Met Opera, as Baba the Turk in Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress,” she is a 2018 recipient of the prestigious George London Award at the George London Competition. Her recital on Sunday, October 2nd, 2022 at The Morgan Library & {…}
The George London Foundation for Singers will now be known as the George and Nora London Foundation for Singers. The new name was announced during the Sept. 18 recital “Nora London – A Celebration” that honored the longtime president and founder of the organization. “Over the past 37 years, not only did Nora fulfill George’s dream for the foundation, but {…}