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Application Process for 2025 / 2026 Season

ALL singers who wish to participate in the Laffont Competition
MUST submit an audition video between July 1-31, 2025.
The audition videos MUST be recorded between January 1 - July 31, 2025.
This submission process is free of charge.

Singers will be notified early September 2025, if they have qualified.
They may then register for available slots at the district of their choice,
confirming their place with the application fee.

After the qualifying singers have registered,
singers who participated but did not qualify may register
for available slots at any open district, including the Nebraska District.

Full information including the submission platform "Resonance,"
eligibility, repertoire requirements & technical instructions
will be posted at the Metropolitan Opera
Laffont Competition site [Application link below].

Dates for the 2025/2026 Season should be updated there by spring 2025.
Application Information



The Nebraska District of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition 2024-2025 took place
on Saturday, January 18, 2025,
at Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln.


Judges:

John Keene,
Chorus Director, San Francisco Opera

Dan Novak,
Director, Ryan Opera Center,
Lyric Opera of Chicago


Mark Schnaible,
Voice Faculty, Manhattan School of Music & Curtis Institute of Music

Accompanist:
the incomparable Hal France!

Results:
Nebraska District Winners:

Midori Marsh (now going on to the Semis in NYC!)
Katharine Burns
Krista Renee Pape
Grace Platt

Nebraska District Encouragement Awards:
in honor of Ky Rohman:  Jeremy Luis Lopez
in honor of Marge & Jim Hewitt:  Sarah Austin


Additional Awards:
Opera Omaha Guild: Reagan Hinze
Lincoln Friends of Opera: Junyue Gong


Our congratulations to the winners!
Our appreciation of our judges, accompanist and donors!

Our thanks to all the singers who performed for us today!




Lincoln Journal Star Article on
the 2015 Auditions

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

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