{"id":5780,"date":"2018-08-03T20:26:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T20:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somainfo.org\/?page_id=5780"},"modified":"2018-08-16T18:55:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T18:55:05","slug":"our-2018-finalists","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/?page_id=5780","title":{"rendered":"Our 2018 Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Our judges found all of our contestants very well prepared, enthusiastic and truly on their way to securing a future in opera. Bravi! We hope you will enjoy our upcoming videos of this years Awards Program and Finals that took place on Sunday, June 3rd, 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Our 2018 Finalists in order of appearance were:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Dorian McCall, Bass<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Teresa Castillo, Soprano<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Daewon Seo, Baritone<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Mariya Kanganskaya, Mezzo<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Fred VanNess, Tenor<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Banlingyu Ban, Soprano<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Adrian Sanchez, Baritone<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Anne Marie Stanley, Mezzo<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Brandon Morales, Bass<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Haley Sicking, Soprano<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/cheap-sunflowers-globalrose-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"cheap-sunflowers-globalrose-2\" src=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/cheap-sunflowers-globalrose-2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">For the first time in our history, we are proud to present the entire final phase of our competition.\u00a0 Please enjoy these wonderful singers with their accompanists!\u00a0 You may test your judging skills and pause this video after the 10 finalists have sung both arias and try to determine who you would select as first, second and third place winners.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">The Awards Program &amp; Finals<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color: #993300;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K6hGsm4xOzo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"655\" height=\"370\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Our 2018 Winners\" href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/?page_id=5775\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Meet Our 2018 Winners<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our judges found all of our contestants very well prepared, enthusiastic and truly on their way to securing a future in opera. Bravi! We hope you will enjoy our upcoming videos of this years Awards Program and Finals that took place on Sunday, June 3rd, 2018. \u00a0Our 2018 Finalists in order of appearance were: Dorian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5641,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5780","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5780"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6012,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5780\/revisions\/6012"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}