Baritone Timothy Noble has enjoyed an international career performing leading roles at major opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Canadian Opera in Toronto, Opera Montreal, the Glyndebourne Festival, La Fenice in Venice, and the Netherlands Opera. He has performed with the orchestras of London (Philharmonic), Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis, and has appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and the Ravinia Festival. He performed a recital for the NATS National Convention in 2004.
Noble serves as vocal consultant for the Canadian Opera and Chicago Opera Theatre Young Artist Programs, and is Founder and Artistic Director of the Charley Creek Vocal Workshop.
Noble's students have won Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition, Bel Canto Opera Competition, and The Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition. His students hold or have held positions with the young artist programs of Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Santa Fe, Brevard, Indianapolis Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Metropolitan Opera, Nashville Opera, Central City Opera, and San Diego Opera. They have also appeared in leading roles with Omaha Opera, Indianapolis Opera, Metropolitan Opera, and Utah Festival Opera.
In the 2006-07 season, Noble will be singing the role of Boris Ismailow in Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk with the Canadian Opera Company, and Falstaff in Guiseppe Verdi's Falstaff with the Indianapolis Opera.

Gayletha Nichols joined the artistic staff of the Metropolitan Opera in the fall of 2000 as Executive Director of the National Council Auditions. She has brought to the Met two decades of experience as a singer, teacher and career advisor. From 1992-2000, she was Director of Houston Opera Studio, the young artist development program at Houston Grand Opera, where she created and individualized the training both for singers and pianists. During the 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 seasons, she was director of both the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and MONC. Ms. Nichols auditions hundreds of singers across North America every year and in her travels addresses many universities, conservatories, and festivals on developing the next generation of opera singers. She is a frequent adjudicator in national and international competitions and consults for other young artist programs across the country.

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