The Nebraska District Laffont Competition 2022-2023
took place on January 14, 2023
Congratulations to the following award winners:
District Winners: Rachel Barg and Midori Marsh (who went on to the Semi-Finals in New York!)
Opera Omaha Guild Encouragement Award: Jaime Webb
Friends of Opera Encouragement Award: Rachel Fitzgerald
District Encouragement Awards: Yonathan Astarte and Katharine Burns

​Congratulations and thank you to all who participated in this year’s competition!
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The Nebraska District of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition 2023-2024 will take place on:
Saturday, January 13, 2024
​Starting at 10:00 
O'Donnell Auditorium
in the Vance D. Rogers Center for Fine Arts
Nebraska Wesleyan University
5040 Huntington (NE corner of N. 50th & Huntington), Lincoln, Nebraska

Free Admission and Open to the Public
Come and go as your schedule allows
Will your favorite singer win?

Judges: 
  • Darrell Babidge, Chair, Vocal Faculty, The Juilliard School, New York, NY
  • Gareth Morrell, Conductor, The Metropolitan Opera, New York, NY
  • Lee Anne Myslewski, Vice President-Opera & Classical Programming, Wolf Trap Foundation, Vienna, VA

All photographs by Kim Fogle (2014) & Talea Bloch (2015-2024).