Adia Evans

A second-year soprano with the Ryan Opera Center from Baltimore, Evans sang Theresa Alvarez/The Listeners, Girlfriend 2/Blue, and Countess Ceprano/Rigoletto in Lyric’s 2024/25 Season. After participating in the 2025 Britten Pears Young Artist Programme in Aldeburgh, England, she presents a recital for the Dame Myra Hess Series in Chicago and then appears at Lyric in El último sueño de Frida y Diego. Recent debuts include The Cliburn in Recital with Jake Heggie, the Dayton Philharmonic (Handel’s Messiah), Annapolis Opera (First Lady/The Magic Flute), Borderland Arts Foundation (Mimì/La Bohème), and the National Orchestra Institute (Beethoven’s 9th with Marin Alsop). Evans has performed with Santa Fe Opera, Merola Opera Program, Fort Worth Opera, Dallas Opera Guild, Opera Columbus, Tulsa Opera, and Knoxville Opera, among others. Her numerous honors include the 2025 Lola Fletcher Award from the American Opera Society of Chicago, a 2024 Richard F. Gold Career Grant, an Encouragement Award from the 2024 London Foundation Competition, third place in the 2023 and 2024 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, Midwest Region, and first place in the 2023 Dallas Opera Guild Lonestar Vocal Competition.

Adia Evans is sponsored by Lead Sponsor the H. Earl and Miriam U. Hoover Foundation and cosponsors Ron and Peggy Beata, Pamela Crutchfield, Margo & Michael Oberman & Family, and Sheila & David Ormesher.

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