Resident Artists
Christopher Bolduc, baritone
AVA third-year resident artist
Hometown: Albany, NYEducation: B.M. Purchase College Conservatory of Music (SUNY) M.M. and honorary Performer's Certificate, Indiana University
Competitions: semi-finalist, 2007 & 2008 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions; first place, 2007 Florida Grand Opera Competition; third place, 2007 Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation; third place, 2007 Opera Index Competition; third place, 2007 Giulio Gari Foundation, finalist and honorable mention, 2007 George London Foundation; winner, 2005 Liederkranz Foundation Awards for Voice; encouragement award, 2005 Fritz and Lavinia Jensen Foundation; winner, 2005 Connecticut Opera Guild Competition; and first place, 2005 Classical Singer Convention Competition.
Roles at AVA: Figaro, Il barbiere di Siviglia, title role, Eugene Onegin, Lescaut, Manon; Guglielmo, Così fan tutte; Lescaut, Manon Lescaut (Act ll); Marchese D'Obigny, La traviata.
Other roles: Masetto, Don Giovanni, Central City Opera; Demetrius, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Indiana University; Papageno, Die Zauberflöte, Indiana University.
