Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky has been hailed as one of the great Verdi singers of the new generation, critically acclaimed for her performances as Elvira in Ernani, Leonora in Il trovatore, Hélène in Les vêpres siciliennes and Elisabetta in Don Carlo. Her performance as Hélène in the rarely performed Les vêpres siciliennes at the Paris Opéra took the opera world by storm and her Elvira at the Metropolitan Opera elicited no less praise. In addition to being a winner of the 1997 George London Foundation Competition, Sondra Radvanovsky also won the 1995 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and received first prize in the 1995 Loren L. Zachary Society Competition. A graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, she has also undertaken advanced studies at Tanglewood Music Center and the University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music.