Photo: #Minnesota Opera Resident Artist Seth Keeton participated in the national finals last year.
Photo: #Semi-finalist John Michael Moore
Photo: #Alison Bates was a regional finalist.

Minnesota Opera singers compete in Met Opera Nationals

by John Birge, Minnesota Public Radio

St. Paul, Minn. — Two of the Minnesota Opera's resident artists, Seth Keeton and John Michael Moore, will compete in the Metropolitan Opera National Finals on Sunday, March 26.

Keeton and Moore, along with another Minnesota Opera resident artist, Alison Bates, swept the regional round of the Met's National Council Auditions in February and competed in the National Semi-finals on March 19. From their hotel room in New York City, Keeton and Moore look ahead to Sunday's finals in a phone conversation with Minnesota Public Radio's John Birge.