During the 2025-26 season at HGO, Butler Studio alumna Raven McMillon performs the role of Clara in Porgy and Bess. McMillon’s roles at HGO include Papagena in The Magic Flute (2022); Frasquita in Carmen (2021); and the leading role of Peter in The Snowy Day (2021). During the 2020-21 HGO Digital season, McMillon performed the roles of Rona Richards in The Impresario; Peter in The Making of The Snowy Day, an Opera for All; and Gretel in Hansel and Gretel. She also featured in the HGO Digital concert Giving Voice and performed as Sister Margaretta in HGO’s My Favorite Things: Songs from The Sound of Music. In the 2024-2025 season, McMillon made two company debuts, first at Minnesota Opera as Peter in The Snowy Day, then with Washington Concert Opera in her role debut as Servilia in La clemenza di Tito. She joined Fort Worth Symphony for the premiere of Jake Heggie’s Earth Song 2 and performed Salome in Stradella’s San Giovanni Battista with Catapult Opera. Last season, McMillon joined both Nashville Symphony and the U.S. Naval Academy for Handel’s Messiah, sang Melissa in Amadigi di Gaula with Ars Lyrica Houston, and covered Peter in The Snowy Day at Portland Opera. She was recognized as a 2021 Grand Finals Winner in the Metropolitan Opera’s Dominique and Eric Laffont Competition. McMillon received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Vocal Performance at Carnegie Mellon University and completed her graduate degree at the University of Cincinnati College – Conservatory of Music (CCM).