Joined The Dallas Opera in 2014 as artistic coordinator and was named director of artistic administration in 2018. Effective in 2021 he was named casting director for the Bavarian State Opera and in May of 2021 Mr. Lomelí was appointed Chief Artistic Officer at the Santa Fe Opera.
Read moreDAVID LOMELÍ joined The Dallas Opera in 2014 as artistic coordinator and was named director of artistic administration in 2018. Effective in 2021 he was named casting director for the Bavarian State Opera and in May of 2021 Mr. Lomelí was appointed Chief Artistic Officer at the Santa Fe Opera. As the first manager of Dallas Opera’s Hart Institute for Women Conductors, Mr. Lomelí recruited over 400 conductors from more than 30 countries to apply, as well as 50 US women administrators. Before joining TDO, Mr. Lomelí performed as a tenor with many of the world’s leading companies including the Berlin Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Glyndebourne Festival, Santa Fe Opera, Los Angeles Opera, and San Francisco Opera. He earned an undergraduate degree in computer science engineering at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico, and a graduate degree in international marketing from la Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. He is a recipient of the National Youth Prize in the Arts, presented by the Mexican government, and won first prize in the categories of opera and zarzuela in Plácido Domingo’s 2006 Operalia. Mr. Lomelí is an alumnus of some of the most prestigious training programs for opera artists: the Domingo- Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program at LA Opera, the Merola Opera Program, and Adler Fellowship at the San Francisco Opera, and the International Society of Mexican Art and Values in Mexico City.
Joined Wolf Trap Opera in 2006, and since her addition has cultivated new partnerships and programs to uphold the company’s widespread acclaim as the country’s most venerated summer training program for emerging artists.
Read moreLEE ANNE MYSLEWSKI Joined Wolf Trap Opera in 2006, and since her addition has cultivated new partnerships and programs to uphold the company’s widespread acclaim as the country’s most venerated summer training program for emerging artists. She conceived of the Untrapped series of programming which has featured artistic partnerships with the Shakespeare Theatre, Taffety Punk, Children’s National Medical Center as well as ongoing partnerships with The Phillips Collection and the National Orchestral Institute. She created the Artistic Advisor position for Chamber Music at the Barns, has participated in the casting and programming of operatic productions for over a decade, and has heard over 7,500 live auditions. Recently appointed Vice President of Opera and Classical Programming, Lee Anne oversees all aspects of Wolf Trap Opera, an artist-centric program whose alumni are not only singing in every opera house in the nation, but also in the most prestigious houses in the world. In addition, she also serves as the executive producer and co-host of Center Stage from Wolf Trap, a nationally syndicated radio program. Lee Anne holds degrees in opera performance from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Maryland, and has been selected for several elite leadership programs, including Opera America’s Leadership Intensive.
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Is an accomplished arts administrator, fundraiser, educator, producer, performing artist, and activist dedicated to advancing artistic excellence, education, and the sustainability of the arts through equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Read moreYVETTE LOYNAZ is an accomplished arts administrator, fundraiser, educator, producer, performing artist, and activist dedicated to advancing artistic excellence, education, and the sustainability of the arts through equity, diversity, and inclusion. She currently serves as the Director of Artistic Administration at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (OTSL) in Saint Louis, Missouri, where she oversees all artistic activities, including OTSL’s spring festival season, commissions, artistic programming for community and education programs, and special events.
Before joining OTSL, Yvette served as the Director of Individual Giving at New World Symphony (NWS) in Miami Beach, FL. She also worked as an opera singer and producer in Europe launching and curating innovative multi-genre programs, new works, and creating access and community around the arts. During that time, she founded and served as the Artistic Director of Bang-up! Opera, a global pop-up opera troupe of multicultural, international artists working to reimagine opera. Under her leadership, the troupe went on to perform over one hundred shows across Europe, Scandinavia, and Mexico in its first three seasons and established key partnerships with opera houses and festivals like La Monnaie, Opera Vlaanderen, Festival van Vlaanderen, and Grachtenfestival.
She has also served as the Administrative Director and Voice Faculty of the Manhattan School of Music Precollege Division where she oversaw admissions, curriculum development, recruitment, evaluation of students and faculty, and taught art song repertoire classes and private voice lessons.
A native of Miami and daughter of Cuban immigrants, Yvette began her musical studies on the piano under the tutelage of her mother who was classically trained in Cuba. She is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music and the Operastudio Vlaanderen in Ghent, Belgium. She is an alumna of the young artist programs at the former Bel Canto at Caramoor International Music Festival (Teatro Nuovo), Glimmerglass Festival, and Aspen Opera Theater Center at Aspen Music Festival. She is also an alumna of the Sphinx Organization’s LEAD (Leaders in Excellence, Arts, and Diversity) program, a two-year professional empowerment program for arts leaders of color, and the Hart Institute of Women Conductors and Administrators at Dallas Opera.
