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    Review Highlights
    The 2023 Rubies Nov 6, 2023 A night to remember Kusturok/Weisensel/Steele Li Keur: Riel’s Heart of the North Nov 18 – 24, 2023 “… many compelling moments ringing with truth in this show.” —HOLLY HARRIS Donizetti Lucie de Lammermoor Oct 21 – 28, 2023
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    For Love Of The Opera
    BROUGHT UP IN AN OPERA-LOVING household, Dawson has been a Canadian Opera Company subscriber since 1997. He comes from an investment banking background, but has since retired from that enterprise. What makes him tick most is creativity and innovation
    Opera Canada5 min read
    Known to Dreamers: Black Voices in Canadian Art Song
    MEASHA BRUEGGERGOSMAN-LEE, ELLIOT MADORE, JONELLE SILLS; STEVEN PHILCOX CENTREDISCS — CMCCD 32523 RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 2024 Canadian Art Song Project features the contributions of Black Canadian composers and poets FEBRUARY 2024 IS SET TO BE AN exc
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    A Conversation With elliot Madore
    LB: Hello Elliot in Zurich! EM: It’s a really special place for me. My international career started when I was 24 and I was offered a position in the ensemble program in Zurich. And it’s where I met my wife, so I always love to come back. I’m current
    Opera Canada4 min read
    Movement of Singing
    Jessica Muirhead remembers Lucile Villeneuve Evans (1923-2021) A voice teacher’s legacy is defined by their student’s success, and the passing along of their wisdom. Lucile Villeneuve Evans taught over a period of more than 50 years and inspired gene
    Opera Canada6 min read
    Letter From Europe
    » TWO TENDENCIES ARE CLEAR: THE EXTENT TO which festivals now, perhaps more so than opera houses, are committed to opera as a forum for positive cultural, political, and interdisciplinary exchange and secondly, how Canadian singers are taking part in
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    Infinity Voyage
    EMERSON QUARTET, BARBARA HANNIGAN, BERTRAND CHAMAYOU ALPHA CLASSICS ALPHA1000 RELEASED SEPTEMBER 8, 2023 After 47 years of award-winning music-making, the Emerson String Quartet disbanded in October 2023; Infinite Voyage was their final release. THE
    Opera Canada4 min readJob Hunting
    Opera 5 - Opera McGill
    WHILE OPERA COMPANIES reduce both the number of productions and performances per season, here instead are leaders with a vision of collaboration, teaching tools with which to earn a living in the face of these realities…at music school! So-called boh
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    Notebook
    The event was sold out, the performances by baritone Russell Braun, soprano Midori Marsh, violinist Marie Berard, and pianist Carolyn Maule, were fantastic and the speeches by the night’s honoured guests (Isabel Bayrakdarian, Gino Quilico, Wayne Voga
    Opera Canada6 min read
    Jonelle Sills Building A Career Rooted In Canada
    For decades, most young Canadian singers had little choice but to set off to Europe after their studies and look for a position in an opera house, more often than not in Germany, in order to gain some experience singing major roles. Soprano Jonelle S
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    Elisabeth St-gelais
    I reached her in October, a few days before her performance of Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été at the Societe d’Art Vocal in Montreal was recorded for broadcast by Radio-Canada as a recognition of her selection as ‘Classical Revelation 2023-2024’. Followin
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    Jorell williams
    Jorell Williams never intended to be a singer. “It was an accident,” he tells me from his condo in downtown Toronto. “I was a pianist. I had been playing piano since I was four.” Jorell had college auditions planned as a piano major. When he arrived
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    Take Note
    In her second year as an artist in ROH’s Jette Parker Program, Canadian soprano Sarah Dufresne will sing the Dew Fairy in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel in a beautiful festive production by British director Antony McDonald, conducted by Mark Wiggles
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    Opera Canada
    Ruby Mercer Eva Innes, Chair Robert Morassutti, Vice Chair Stephanie Applin Davida Aronovitch Dorian Block Curtis Fichtner Jason Howard Wojtek Niebrzydowski Margaret Genovese James Warrillow Elizabeth Bowman elizabeth@operacanada.ca Caitlin Wood outr
    Opera Canada3 min readLeadership
    Business Experts Interpret Opera …
    … What is the best leadership role you’ve held? What did it teach you? I coached youth soccer many years ago. We had autonomy to manage, guide and train A LOT of young people. It taught me an important leadership lesson early: there can be negative c
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    Thierry Tidrow
    I have known about Tidrow for a long-time; we met while singing in the choirs of St. Matthew’s Anglican Church in Ottawa, the same place that introduced baritone Gerald Finley and countertenor Daniel Taylor to the classical repertoire. He credits Mat
    Opera Canada1 min read
    Review Highlights
    Mozart Così fan tutte July 6-21, 2023 “Russell Braun is a consummate actor and an artist who continues to astound with his range of roles, from Don Giovanni and Eugene Onegin to extremely taxing roles by contemporary composers like Peter Eötvös and K
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    Letter From Banff
    THERE’S NOTHING LIKE IT. EVERY TIME I travel to Banff Centre, I remind myself that I cannot take anything for granted. The drive from Calgary to Banff, at first, is fairly flat and straight and then…you see them: The Canadian Rocky Mountains come int
    Opera Canada3 min read
    Essential Perspectives: Business Experts Interpret Opera …
    … Could you briefly sketch your journey from opera and music to Managing Director at BMO Capital Markets? I studied voice at the University of Toronto then performed small gigs and recitals, chorus work and did some touring with Opera Atelier. I need
    Opera Canada2 min read
    Notebook
    November will mark the final issue of Opera News, a publication that began in 1936; its parent company The Met Opera Guild will wind down its operations, with The Metropolitan Opera taking over its outreach programs. Furthermore, Chautauqua Opera wil
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    Grace And Radiance
    SL: Born in Lebanon, where you spent the first 14 years of your life before moving to Canada with your family. You graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor in Biomedical Engineering in the Spring of 1997, a few months later, you won F
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    For Love Of The Opera
    PRICE EXPERIENCED HIS FIRST OPERA at the age of six when an aunt took him to a classic production of Aïda at the Paris Opera. With a large smile, he recalls his childhood memory: “It was wonderful! During the triumphal march, the elephant did somethi
    Opera Canada7 min read
    The New Normal
    It’s the bustle of it that’s so invigorating, the thrill of heading directly into the lights and crowds and of a downtown theatre in order to have a shared experience with strangers. It’s the giddy novelty of taking public transit, the voyeuristic vo
    Opera Canada6 min read
    Change Makers
    Why do some opera companies stay relevant while others die slowly and noisily like mammoths in a tar pit? Consider Toronto’s Tapestry founded in 1979 by Wayne Strongman as Tapestry Singers. The company was renamed Tapestry Music Theatre in 1985 and T
    Opera Canada7 min read
    Top40 Canadian Opera Companies
    Our 2022 Top40 ranking sees total revenues rising to $66.6 million, up from the pandemic low of $55.4 million in 2021 but still far short of the pre-pandemic $85 million racked up in 2019. The most recent increase, of course, reflects a quickening of
    Opera Canada1 min read
    Opera
    Ruby Mercer Eva Innes, Chair Robert Morassutti, Vice Chair Stephanie Applin Davida Aronovitch Dorian Block Curtis Fichtner Jason Howard Margaret Genovese James Warrillow Elizabeth Bowman elizabeth@operacanada.ca Angela Bell outreach@operacanada.ca St
    Opera Canada2 min read
    Take Note
    The Paris Opera opened its 2023/24 season with a new production of Don Giovanni directed by German Claus Guth. The title role is shared by Swede Peter Mattei and American Kyle Ketelsen, while Canadian John Relyea takes on the role of Il Commendatore.
    Opera Canada3 min read
    Mervon Mehta — Artists leading Artists
    LC: You exemplify my quest for artists leading arts and other artists. You’re an actor, host and storyteller, having studied under Sanford Meisner. In addition to being a founding member of the Neighborhood Group Theatre in New York City and performi
    Opera Canada6 min read
    Baritone Of A Generation
    Gino Quilico grew up in an itinerant household, listening to his mother Lina, an accomplished pianist and coach, and his famous dad, Louis—known as “Mr. Rigoletto” for his signature Verdi role—prepare his roles. The opera singer’s life took the famil

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