Baritone
Recipient of the 2012
Robin Angly & Miles Smith Audience Choice Award
Shea Owens
Baritone Shea Owens, from Scottsdale, Arizona, recently graduated with his Masters of Music in vocal performance from Rice University as a student of Dr. Stephen King. His appearances there include Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, Mr. Webb in Our Town, and Eisenstein in Act 1 of Die Fledermaus.
Mr. Owens graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelors of Music from Brigham Young University, where he played the four villains in Les contes d’Hoffmann as well as the title roles in Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro.
Mr. Owens performed the role of Luther in Les contes d’Hoffmann with Wolf Trap Opera, the Lackey in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Tanglewood Music Center, and Papageno in The Magic Flute with Phoenix Opera. This summer he will perform at Central City Opera, and in the fall will begin a young artist residency with Utah Opera.
Sunday, May 20, 2012 Largo al factotum from Il BARBIERE di SIVIGLIA by Rossini and Mein sehnen, mein wanhnen from DIE TOTE STADE by Korngold Shea was accompanied by Teruhiko Toda HD video by Robert Land Productions
Shea and Lois Alba
Seong Ae Park
Heather Engebretsen
Dana Pundt
Our 2012 Photo Gallery
Our Guest Artists provided our judges the time they needed to finalize there decisions and provided a thrilling performance of excerpts from