Resident Artists
Scott Conner, bass
AVA third-year resident artist
Hometown: Olathe, Kansas
Education: B. M. in Vocal Performance, University of Missouri—Kansas City Conservatory of Music.
Competitions: District Winner, Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (Boston), 2012; District Winner, Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (Philadelphia), 2010; Gold Award, National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA) Vocal Competition, 2004; District Winner, Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, (Kansas City), 2008.
Roles at AVA: Lindorf, Copéllius, Dr. Miracle and Dapertutto, Les Contes d'Hoffmann; title role, Don Giovanni; First Man, The Scarlet Letter; Colline, La bohème; Direktor, Capriccio; Oroveso in excerpts from Norma.
Roles: title role, Le nozze di Figaro, Nashville Opera and Columbus Opera; title role, Le nozze di Figaro, the Pirate King, The Pirates of Penzance, Sarastro, Die Zauberflöte, all with the Kansas City Conservatory of Music; Colline, La bohème, Naples Philharmonic; Colline, La bohème, the King, Aida, Don Basilio, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Nourabad, The Pearl Fishers, Wagner, Faust, all with Wichita Grand Opera; Mathieu, Andrea Chenier, Mobile Opera; Alidoro, La Cenerentola, Dr. Grenvil, La traviata, both with Opera New Jersey; Sparafucile, Rigoletto, Springfield Regional Opera; Dr. Grenvil, La traviata, Curio, Giulio Cesare, Lyric Opera of Kansas City.
Upcoming: Alidoro, La Cenerentola; Sparafucile, Rigoletto; Colline, La bohème, all with Dresden Semperoper, 2012-2013 season; Tindaro/Nettuno, Elena, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, July 2013; Raimondo, Lucia di Lammermoor, L'Opéra de Lille, September 2013; Saretzky, Eugene Onegin, and Polizeikommissar, Der Rosenkavalier, Glyndebourne Festival, 2014; Colline, La bohème, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 2015.
