Luke Novell

Tenor

American tenor Luke Norvell’s opera highlights include DUCA Rigoletto Opera North, RODOLFO La Bohème The Grange Festival, ALFREDO La Traviata Canadian Opera Company, Vancouver Opera and Sarasota Opera, FERRANDO Così fan tutte Sarasota Festival, RINUCCIO Gianni Schicchi/Buoso's Ghost, SOLOIST in Verdi's Messa di Requiem Utah Festival Opera, Faust (title role), MALE CHORUS Rape of Lucretia, and LENSKY Eugene Onegin Academy of Vocal Arts, RODOLFO La bohème and LENSKY Music Academy of the West, ANATOL (cv) Vanessa Spoleto Festival USA, RINUCCIO Gianni Schicchi Opera Roanoke, and FENTON Falstaff Puget Sound Concert Opera.

Additional repertoire includes HOFFMANN Les contes d’Hoffmann, ROMEO Roméo et Juliette, ITALIAN TENOR Der Rosenkavalier, PINKERTON Madama Butterfly, EDGARDO Lucia di Lammermoor, NEMORINO L’elisir d’amore, MACDUFF Macbeth, and PRINCE Rusalka.

He has earned recognition in numerous prestigious competitions. He has been awarded prizes in the Tenor Viñas Competition (5th place), Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition (District Winner), Houston Grand Opera (Finalist), Opera Index (Emerging Artist), Giargiari Bel Canto Competition (2nd place and Audience Choice), Young Patronesses of the Florida Grand Opera Competition (1st place and Audience Choice), Michael Ballam Competition (1st place and Audience Favorite), and SAS Performing Arts Competition (1st place). He also reached the final rounds of the Vincerò World Singing Competition and the Eleanor McCollum Concert of Arias.