During the 2025-26 season, Butler Studio alumna Mané Galoyan performs as Gretel in Hansel and Gretel. Galoyan has appeared with HGO many times, including as Avis in The Wreckers (2022); Gilda in Rigoletto (2019); Confidante in Elektra (2018); Violetta Valery in La traviata (2017); Adina in The Elixir of Love (2016); Lucy Goodman in After the Storm (2016); and Margaret Hughes in the world premiere of Carlisle Floyd's Prince of Players (2016). She was the first-place winner in HGO’s 27th Eleanor McCollum Competition Concert of Arias, and the second-place prize winner of the 2021 Operalia competition, where she also won the Zarzuela Prize and the Rolex Audience Prize. Highlights of the 2025-26 season include Musetta in La bohème with the Metropolitan Opera, Violetta with Atlanta Opera, Sister Angelica and Lauretta in Il trittico with Deutsche Oper Berlin, Soléa in Penello’s El gato montés at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, and in concert, the title role in Iolanta with the Opéra Orchestre Normandie Rouen. Highlights during the 2024-25 season included a house debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, where she performed Gilda in Rigoletto, as well as a role and house debut as Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito at the Monte Carlo Opera and Liù in Turandot at Theater Basel, in addition to returning to the Bavarian State Opera as Adina in The Elixir of Love. She holds two degrees from the Yerevan State Komitas Conservatory in Armenia, where she was named the 2013 winner of the President of the Republic of Armenia Youth Prize.