Barbara Divis Barbara Divis is an emerging young artist who has, during the past two seasons, appeared with the San Diego Opera (First Lady in Die Zauberflote and Lula in Cold Sassy Tree), Opera Santa Barbara (Nedda in I Pagliacci), and West Bay Opera. As a former Principal Artist with Opera San Jose, she performed thirteen roles, most notably Violetta in La Traviata, Micaëla in Carmen, Mimi in La Bohème, Marguerite in Faust, Nedda in Pagliacci, and Tatyana in Eugene Onegin. Last season she appeared with Nevada Opera as Nedda, Opera Santa Barbara as Mieaela, and Tacoma Opera as Violetta. In addition, she appeared in Mexico City as soprano soloist in Haydn's "Lord Nelson" Mass with the Mexico City Symphony. Ms. Divis holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Houston, for whom she performed Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff, Rosina in The Barber of Seville, Eurydice in Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld, and Serpetta in Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera. She also had the opportunity to reprise the role of Doll Bilby under the direction of Carlisle Floyd. Elsewhere, she was a member of the San Diego Opera's Ensemble Program, and the apprentice programs of the Fort Worth Opera and Des Moines Metro Opera. On the concert stage, she has appeared as a featured soloist with the San Diego Symphony, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, the Woodlands Symphony Orchestra, the Sun City Chorale and orchestra, and the San Jose Symphony. Ms. Divis was a Regional Finalist (2nd place) in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and was the first place winner in the Ellen Faull Gordon Competition sponsored in part by the Portland Opera. Upcoming engagements include Liü in Turandot with Austin Lyric Opera in November. Barbara has also been engaged to sing the roles of Micaëla in Carmen, and First Lady in Die Zauberflote with San Diego Opera in 2006. Accompanyist: Irina Prilipko Morgan is a PhD honors grad of the Conservatory of Music in Georgia, Russia, was principal coach-accompanist of the State Opera and Ballet, and has toured the world. Since her move to the US she has performed with many great singers and has conducted many operas, and was assistant conductor for Opera San Jose. Irina has produced five CDs.

Ravil Atlas Ravil Atlas has performed a wide-ranging repertoire in opera, musical theater, operetta, and concert with companies throughout the US including Opera San Jose (2 years as principal Artist-in-Residence), Opera Grand Rapids, West Bay Opera, Tacoma Opera, Pacific Repertory Opera, Opera at Florham, Opera Southwest, Mendocino Music Festival, Maine Grand Opera, Opera Southwest, Manhattan's Dicapo Opera, and National Lyric Opera. Highlights of his 30 leading opera roles include Manrico in Il Trovatore, Cavaradossi in Tosca, Gustavo in Un Ballo in Maschera, Turridu in Cavalleria Rusticana, Don Jose in Carmen, Canio in Pagliacci, Luigi in Il Tabarro, Eisenstein and Alfred in Die Fledermaus, and the title role in The Tales of Hoffmann. Mr. Atlas created the lead tenor role in the world premier of Phaedra with Opera San Jose and Un Racconto Fiorentino at Lincoln Center in New York. On the concert stage, Mr. Atlas has sung with Kent Nagano and the Berkeley Symphony in the title role of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, and as Mefistofeles in Busoni's Doktor Faustus. He has been featured as tenor soloist in the Verdi Requiem eight times. Other concert engagements have included Handel's Messiah, the Mozart Requiem, Dave Brubeck's To Hope: A Mass accompanied by the composer, Orff's Carmina Burana, and the title roles in Britten's St. Nicholas and Honegger's King David. Displaying another facet of his versatility, Ravil Atlas has appeared in the national companies of Les Miserables as Jean Valjean, and in The Phantom of the Opera as opera star Ubaldo Piangi. Other musical theater appearances include the title roles in Candide and The Student Prince, Padre Perez in Man of La Mancha, Pacific Overtures with San Jose Civic Light Opera and featured ensemble with New York's City Center Encore's production of The New Moon. He has also appeared in numerous "Three Tenor" and "cross-over" style concerts. Ravil holds citizenship with both the United States and Italy. He grew up and was educated in California and earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in vocal performance from San Jose State University. He began his professional singing career as a member of the world-renowned vocal ensemble Chanticleer, and was the winner of the San Jose Opera Guild competition, a regional finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions, and the San Francisco Opera Center auditions.