Nicole Thomas (Music) has been accepted to the Houston Grand Opera Young Artist Academy for summer 2015. A mezzo-soprano, she was accepted from a highly completive field of more than 1,000 singers. Singers are chosen by videotaped audition and recommendation only. The first UNLV student to be accepted into this program, she also was Nevada's first-place winner of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Opera auditions in January. She went on to win an Encouragement Award at the regional Met auditions in Denver. She is the youngest Nevadan to ever win at these auditions.
