Resident Artists
Takesha Meshé Kizart, soprano
AVA fourth-year resident artist
Birthplace: Chicago, ILEducation: B.M., University of North Texas
Competitions: 2007 Grand Prize Winner , Concurso Internacional de Canto Montserrat Caballé; 2007 Star & Featured Performer Film: "The Verdian Voice" (from Brendecke & Brun); 2007 Grand & Audience Prize Winner, The Connecticut Opera Guild Young Artist Competition; 2007 Grand Prize Winner, Florida Grand Opera - YPO Voice Competition; 2007 Scholarship Award Winner, Sergio Franchi Music Foundation & Memorial Concert; 2007 Featured Performer Film: Metropolitan Opera HD Broadcast "Intermission Feature;" 2007 2nd Prize Winner, Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions - SW Region; 2007 2nd Prize Winner The Gerda Lissner Foundation Competition; 2007 3rd Prize Winner Oratorio Society of New York - Woodside Solo Competition; 2007 Schwebel Award Winner, Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition; 2006 Grand Prize Winner, Concorso Internazionale Voci Verdiane "Città di Busseto;" 2006 Grand Prize Winner The Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition; 2006 Grand Prize Winner Classical Singer Magazine Young Artist Competition; 2006 Directors' Award Winner, Opera Index Inc.Awards & Tribute to Jessye Norman; 2006 Audience Prize Winner, The Altamura/Caruso International Voice Competition.
Roles at AVA: Musetta, La bohème; Donna Anna, Don Giovanni; Anna, Le villi, title role, Vanessa
Other roles: Tisbe/Cenerentola, La Cenerentola, Fort Worth Opera Tour; Giorgetta/Angelica, Il trittico, Donna Anna, Don Giovanni, Fiordiligi, Così fan tutte, and Hanna Glawari, The Merry Widow, UNT Opera Theater; Countess, Le nozze di Figaro, Roosevelt University Opera Studio
Website: Takesha Meshé Kizart
