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: As a soloist or collaborator, Daniel Lockert is equally versatile on the piano, organ and harpsichord. He is a native of San Diego, where he began piano studies at the age of five. He also studied organ throughout high school and college. He attended the University of Southern California and obtained an advanced degree in the specialized area of accompanying, studying with Gwendolyn Kolfdofsky, the pioneer teacher of the field. Daniel was the only American finalist in the first International Accompanying Competition held in the Netherlands. As an accompanist, he has had an active career accompanying choral groups, singers and instrumentalists throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. He has collaborated with singers past and present of the Metropolitan opera, such as Deborah Voigt, as well as current young recitalists, including Christopheren Nomura. As a coach and teacher, he has been on the staffs and faculties of the Juilliard School, the San Francisco Opera, Opera San Jose, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Chapman University, and the Aspen Music Festival. He is also active as a cabaret pianist and singer, having collaborated with many bay area performers. He has directed several musicals and reviews at the Marin Theatre Company and the Willows Theatre, in evenings of music by Gershwin, Bernstein, and others. He has musically directed and conducted several musicals by Stephen Sondheim, including Company, Into the Woods, Side by Side by Sondheim, and You're Gonna Love Tomorrow. As a harpsichordist and continuo player, Daniel has played at the Carmel Bach Festival for several years. With the San Jose Chamber Orchestra, he played the world premiere of Concertino Notturno for Flute, Harpsichord and Strings by Vivian Fung.

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.