Soprano Lisa Hopkins, a Washington resident, is one of the 19 fortunate Filene Young Artists chosen for a summer of residency with Wolf Trap Opera Company. They come from young artist programs and conservatories nationwide for the same kind of intensive training that has propelled past WTOC participants to international careers.

A graduate of Yale University with a bachelor’s in theater studies and master’s from Manhattan School of Music, Hopkins is appearing currently in “Volpone” as Corvina, the raven. Corvina was not in Ben Jonson’s poetic work from which the opera is adapted, but was given life by librettist Mark Campbell, who morphed several of Jonson’s characters into three menacing birds.