The Opera Awards is an singing competition, for professional Australian opera singers.
 It was established in 1986 with the purpose of assisting and developing professional Australian opera singers.
 This is achieved through programs of study with selected international educational institutions, engagements with professional opera companies, as well as through introduction, networking and educational opportunities with prominent members of the international operatic community.
Edgar Vincent (13 March 1918, Hamburg — 26 June 2008, New York City) was an American publicist and actor of German birth.
 He began his career appearing in small roles in Hollywood films during the 1940s but his German accent prevented him from moving further with his career.
 In 1949 he joined a New York publishing firm with his first client being the opera singer Ezio Pinza.
 He went on to specialize in being a publicist for opera singers, helping shape and forward the careers of major stars like Lily Pons, Anna Moffo, Eleanor Steber, Jussi Björling, George London, Leonard Warren, Mirella Freni, Shirley Verrett, Cecilia Bartoli, Dolora Zajick, Dorothy Kirsten, Eileen Farrell, Birgit Nilsson, Rise Stevens and Salvatore Licitra.
 He had a particularly close friendship and relationship with the late Beverly Sills and was also a close friend and adviser to Plácido Domingo in addition to being his publicist.
 Vincent also worked for Mikhail Baryshnikov and a handful of musicians other than opera singers, including conductors Erich Leinsdorf, Leopold Stokowski and Georg Solti; the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich; and the violinist Isaac Stern.
 He also worked frequently with his colleague, fellow publicist Margaret Carson.
Surrey Opera is a semi-professional English opera company based in Croydon, providing opera in Surrey, Sussex and Kent.
 The company offers opportunity to emerging professional opera singers, providing the opportunity to work with professional directors, musicians, designers and the Surrey Opera Chorus.
 Alumni of Surrey Opera include known singers Peter Sidhom, Russel Smythe, Susan Gritton and David Soar.
 While opera forms the majority of its repertoire, the company also performs operettas, musicals and soirées.
The Shoshana Foundation is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1986 upon the death of Richard F. Gold who was a long time administrator at both the New York City Opera and Chamber Opera Theater of New York.
 The foundation's work focuses on assisting promising opera singers at the start of their careers by providing The Richard F. Gold Career Grant to young singers nominated by their music school and opera apprenticeship program.
 Music schools currently involved in the scholarship program include the Juilliard School Opera Center, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Mannes College of Music among others.
 Opera apprenticeship programs include the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, and the Wolf Trap Opera Company.
 Winners are asked to give at least one charity performance in the year following their award, the expenses of which are met by the foundation.
Eleonora Vindau (Russian: Элеонора Виндау ) (born 19 August 1986) is a Ukrainian soprano opera singer.
 She sang the role of Dunyasha in the world premiere of Alexander Smelkov's opera "The Station Master", staged at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre in 2011 and is a laureate of IV All-Russian Nadezhda Obukhova Young Opera Singers' Competition (Lipetsk, 2008) and the VIII International Rimsky-Korsakov Young Opera Singers' Competition (St Petersburg, 2008)
Lanfranco Rasponi (11 December 1914 – 9 April 1983) was an Italian author, critic, and publicist.
 He is primarily known for his writing on opera and opera singers, especially his 1982 book, "The Last Prima Donnas".
 Born in Florence, he was the son of an Italian aristocrat and an American mother.
 From the late 1940s to the early 1960s Rasponi was the publicity agent for many opera singers as well as for socialites and fashionable restaurants in New York City.
 For a while, he also owned the Sagittarius Gallery in Manhattan which specialised in introducing contemporary European artists.
 After a financial scandal in 1963, he left the United States for Italy and dedicated himself to writing.
 He spent his last years in Rio de Janeiro where he died at the age of 68.
Ava June Wiggins (23 July 1931 — 22 February 2013) was an English opera singer noted for her roles with the Sadler's Wells Opera (now called the English National Opera).
 She joined the Opera in 1953 and switched from a mezzo to soprano on the persuasion of her teacher Clive Carey.
 June left the company in 1963 and also won a gold medal at the Sofia International Competition for young opera singers.
 She rejoined Sadler's Wells Opera seven years later and made her first performance in the United States in 1974 with the San Francisco Opera.
 June's last professional appearance as a singer came in 1983 and retired the following year to enter into a coaching role for the next generation of singers.
 She also taught with various musical organisations and brought her opera experience to directing productions until 1999.
Ronald Naldi is an American lyric tenor who has sung on the stages of the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Arena di Verona, Salzburger Landestheater, L'Opéra Français, and New Jersey State Opera, under the baton of maestri James Levine, Valery Gergiev, James Conlon, David Robertson, Leonard Slatkin, Joseph Colaneri, Charles Mackerras, Christopher Keene, Alfredo Silipigni, Lukas Foss, Nello Santi, Vincent LaSelva, Thomas Booth, and Eduardo Müller, and alongside singers Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Leo Nucci, James Morris, Samuel Ramey, and Renee Fleming, among many.
The American animated television miniseries "Over the Garden Wall" features a cast of fictional characters created by Patrick McHale.
 The series revolves around two half-brothers, Wirt (voiced by Elijah Wood), the older brother, an awkward and poetic young adult; and Gregory (voiced by Collin Dean), the younger brother, an energetic optimist.
 The duo travel through a strange forest, searching for the way back to their home, and encountering wondrous things along their journey.
 On their quest, Wirt and Greg interact with characters such as a bluebird named Beatrice (voiced by Melanie Lynskey), the Woodsman (voiced by Christopher Lloyd), and the Beast (voiced by Samuel Ramey).
Samuel Edward Ramey (born March 28, 1942 in Colby, Kansas) is an American operatic bass-baritone and bass .

Question: What nationality are the opera singers Ronald Naldi and Samuel Ramey?
Answer: American