Affiliate Organizations

The Academy of Vocal Arts is grateful for all the people who support our mission to train the world's finest opera singers.The Bucks County Opera Association, the Main Line Opera Association, and the South Jersey Opera Association hold events and support AVA performances in their area. Those interested in joining or supporting any of these groups, please see information below.

 

The Bucks County Opera Association of The Academy Of Vocal Arts

Barbara M. Donnelly
Susan E. Kane
Co-Chairmen

Franca C. Warden
Chair Emeritus

Mrs. Frank T. Bochenek
Secretary

Kathleen Mahanes
Treasurer

Peggy Hoffman Adams
Publicity

Joseph F. Flynn III
Mrs. Roger Williams, Jr.
Auction

Mrs. Joseph A. Gendaszek
James Paccioretti
Scholastic Outreach Chairmen

Members
  • Dr. and Mrs. David H. Brown
  • Mr. and Mrs. L. Eugene Brown
  • Mrs. James T. Demopoulos
  • Pamela Morrison
  • Virginia Piquette Hartman
  • Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Katsiff
  • Laurence Keller
  • Dr. and Mrs. Charles Mintzer
  • Mrs. Lanny Morgnanesi
  • Laren Pitcairn
  • Brenda M. Redfield
  • Mrs. Richard D. Stephenson
  • Mrs. William Tinsman
  • Dr. Farah Vikoren
  • Dorothy Wilkins

2009/2010 Events:

  • Bucks County Opera Association Gala - Sunday, November 7, 2010, 4:00 p.m. at Holly Hedge, New Hope, PA

For information please call Susan Kane (215) 862-2526 or Barbara Donnelly (215) 801-4072

For information about or to join this organization, contact Susan Kane.

The Main Line Opera Association of the Academy of Vocal Arts

Kay Bossone, President
Marlene Milner, Treasurer

Jane Carton, Secretary

Jane Thompson, Corresponding Secretary

Members
  • Janae Alberts
  • Grace A. Agostino
  • Barbara Alleva
  • Nancy Barness
  • Ilyce Benton
  • Lee Bookbinder
  • Carol Boslet
  • Dr. Elizabeth M. Bowden
  • Pat Carroll
  • Sharon Carson
  • Barbara Chimicles
  • A. Candace Chimples
  • Pat Coffey
  • Charlotte H. de Serio
  • Tash Duff
  • Daphne Voss Fisher
  • Rosemarie L. Frankino
  • Angela Gasparo
  • Rosalie Gerson
  • Josephine Guido-Sadacca
  • Marilyn Howley

 

  • Jackie Jerrehian
  • Dr. Heidi Kolberg
  • Mary M. Lane
  • Ellen Berman Lee
  • Electra Lenard
  • Maribeth Lerner
  • Fotini Lyraraki
  • Sharon Modelevsky
  • Pamela DiStefano Packard
  • Diane Page
  • Carolyn Ramsey
  • Ann Ritt
  • Debby Robinson
  • Laurie Rogers
  • Sally Sharkey
  • Joyce Shenian
  • Anne Speyer
  • Helen Vounas
  • Lee Warden
  • Felice Wiener
  • Angela Zager

2009/2010 Events:
Main Line Gala - October 24, 2010, at Greystone Manor, Chester County

Entertainment by AVA artists.

Kay Bossone, event co-chair

Jane Carton, event co-chair

For information about or to join this organization, contact Robert L. Lyon

The South Jersey Opera Association of The Academy of Vocal Arts

Amelia Batastini
President

John McCarthy
Vice-president

Nannette Gordner Kalani
Secretary

Lyn Batastini Vizzi
Treasurer

 

  • Members


  • Louis Abbattista

  • Roxanne Adinolfi

  • Marie Barrett

  • Charles J. Coleman

  • Marie DeMarco

  • K. C. Dempster

  • Barbara Esposito

  • Beverly Ezze
  • Joyce Grossman
  • Nancy Gulick
  • Colleen Horan
  • Lisa Krusinski
  • Phyllis Levy
  • Adrienne McCauley
  • Sherwood Pavorsky
  • Diana Gambacorta-Rosati
  • Nikki Rosen
  • Vivienne Stevens
  • Denise Stuart
  • Verna Zelaney
 
     

2009/2010 Events:
Spring gala "Boheme Rhapsody" - Saturday, April 24, 2010. Enterprise Center at Burlington County College, Mount Laurel, NJ.  6 p.m. cocktails, dinner. Entertainment by AVA artists. Silent auction and raffle. For information call Lyn Vizzi (856) 428-7611

CLICK HERE TO SEE PICTURES OF THE EVENT

For information about or to join this organization, contact Amelia Batastini.

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