Updated February 7, 2012
The 2012 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions for the Mid-South Region takes place at the Germantown Performing Arts Centre in the Memphis, TN area on Saturday, February 11, and the field of singers for that competition is now complete. The final district in that region to hold their auditions was the West Tennessee district on February 4. The district winners competing in the Mid-South region:
Kentucky District
Rachel Sterrenberg, 22, soprano, from Madison, GA
Thomas Gunther, 28, baritone, from Muscatine, Iowa
Vincent Turregano, 24, baritone from Alexandria, LA
Middle/East Tennessee District
Edward Hanlon, 27, bass-baritone, from Port Washington, NY
Lauren K. Frey, 24, soprano, from Pittsburgh, PA
Linda C. Brimer, 26, soprano, from Greenville, TN
Arkansas District
Jacob Watson, tenor, Wynne, Arkansas
Kristin Lassiter, soprano, from Dallas, Texas
West Tennessee District
Allison Sanders, soprano from Memphis, TN
Vanessa Isiguen, soprano from Charlotte, NC
Anthony Clark Evans, baritone from Elizabethtown, KY
