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Adam Da Ros is a Canadian stage and music director from Dawson Creek, B.C. active in opera and musical theatre. He is on academic staff at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as adjunct instructor and director of the UWM Opera Theatre program. He recently completed two seasons as Resident Artist Stage Director at Minnesota Opera, where he assisted on eight mainstage productions, including two world premieres, as well as directing members of the Resident Artist Program in promotional and outreach activities, including a concert at the National Opera Center in New York City.Adam holds a ...

A valley of the unknown, paving the way for commonalities between cultures, and creating a language for dialogue on social issues. Afarin’s Symponic Prelude “Mithra”, was performed by Toronto Symphony Orchestra as part of their 100th Celebration Anniversary and introduced many musical idioms from East to the audience. In the past few years Afarin has devoted her compositional career in producing operas: In 2018, her first opera“Forbidden” gained national and international attention by Globe and Mail and BBC world as she made a new approach to combine Eastern music with opera. Opera Canada ...

One of the most commanding and exciting singers of his generation, French-Canadian bass Alain Coulombe has been enjoying a thirty-year international singing career. He has collaborated with outstanding conductors such as Seiji Ozawa, Kent Nagano, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Richard Bradshaw, Helmut Rilling, Bernard Labadie, Alain Altinoglu, Ingo Metzmacher and Richard Bonynge. Highlights from recent opera seasons include Il Commendatore in Don Giovanni at the Salzburg Festival, Der Doktor in Wozzeck and Archangel Uriel in the world premiere of CO2 at Il Teatro alla Scala, ...

As a baritone, Alan has sung throughout North America and Europe. In the UK, he sang Marcello in Puccini’s La Bohème, Mozart’s Mass in C minor, and Bach’s St. Matthew's and St. John's Passion, Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus in London, and Papageno in The Magic Flute in Belfast. He sang Schaunard in La Boheme with Vancouver Opera and with Opera Theátre Besançon in France and returned to Besancon and Dijon, France in Peter Eötvös’ contemporary opera Le Balcon and in Rossini’s opera L’occassione fa il Ladro. Alan performed many times with the Kamloops Symphony including Mahlers’ Das Lied von der ...

Alex Chen is a collaborative pianist, baritone, and vocal coach whose curiosity brings fresh perspectives on a diverse body of musical works. In the words of his mentor John Hess, he is "an immensely musical and sensitive player" with "a deeply inquisitive mind." Alex performs regularly both as a singer and collaborative pianist in the Victoria music community, exploring genres such as art song, opera, and choral music. Moreover, as a faculty member at the Victoria Conservatory of Music he supports a wide variety of students and young professional singers from the piano. He currently studies ...

Born on the auspicious Feast Day of Bach, Handel and Purcell, it was surely fated that Alexander Cappellazzo would immerse himself in music!Starting with Strauss’ Die Fledermaus in 2017, he has since performed roles like Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Lensky (Eugene Onegin), Acis (Acis & Galatea), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Oronte (Alcina) and many more with companies across Canada including: VOICEBOX: Opera In Concert, Toronto City Opera, Opera By Request, OperOttawa, Nózki Opera, Opéra Queens, Cantabile Chorale, the Ashkenaz Festival, 23 Degree Theatre, the Halifax Summer Opera Festival and ...

Allison Plamondon is a choreographer, originally from Edmonton. She is a member of the first all-female creative team to receive Opera America’s Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer prize (2021-22), for Orfeo Ed Euridice. Currently, Allison is the choreographer for Damn Yankees, headlining the Shaw Festival’s 60th anniversary season. New York highlights include: Goblin Market (59E59/Edinburgh), The Hills Are Alive! (NYMF), Someone To Belong To (NYC Fringe-Overall Excellence Award, Choreography), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (14th St Y), concept/direction/choreo for Memory Home (2019) and The ...

2020 Dora Nominee for Outstanding Opera Direction, Amanda Smith, is enamoured by visual storytelling as a platform to explore the psychological impacts of music, colour and movement. Amanda creates stimulating productions that highlight opera’s modern-day potential with collaborations and inspiration from other contemporary art forms, such as new media art, electronic music, contemporary dance and event design.For the past ten years, Amanda’s love of the creative process has led her to exploring the use of devised and collective creation in opera, as a way to empower the performers and ...

Toronto-born baritone Andrew Adridge is a proud Guyanese Canadian performer and arts administrator known for his commanding stage presence and versatility of vocal ability. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto Opera program where he studied under Wendy Nielsen. He also holds a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from UofT, studying under Peters Barnes. Credits at UofT Opera include, Bacchus in Offenbach's Orphée aux enfers (2016), the title role in Don Giovanni (2017), and Sam Jenkins in Gershwin's Of thee I sing (2018). As a member of the Nathaniel Dett Chorale, Andrew made his ...

https://www.youtube.com/@annapompeeva Contessa - Le Nozze di Figaro - Mozart Aida - Aida - VerdiDezdemona - Otello - VerdiLeonora - Il Trovatore - VerdiToska - Toska - PucciniNedda - Pagliacci - LeoncavalloLisa - Queen of spades - ChaikovskySinderella - MassenetMichaela - Carmen - BizetRequiem - Verdi

Ukrainian-Canadian dramatic soprano Antonina Ermolenko is fast gaining international acclaim for her “diva’s vocal technique and dramatic flair” (Promin), along with her sense of “lyricism and emotional depth” (New Pathway). A disciple of Martina Arroyo, Antonina’s musical approach hearkens back to the Golden Age of opera, while infusing her own unique, character-driven approach to the art form.Her wide range of repertoire includes dramatic coloratura roles such as Bellini’s Norma, Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, and Mozart’s Mme. Herz alongside heroines such as Puccini’s Tosca, and Verdi’s ...

Aria Umezawa is an artist-innovator who is focused on changing the culture of opera and opera creation. She recently completed an Adler Fellowship with San Francisco Opera (SFO)– the first stage director to be awarded the fellowship in fifteen years. She was the first Canadian stage director to participate in the Merola Opera Program in 2016, where she directed the Grand Finale to critical acclaim. She is the Co-Founder of Amplified Opera, an organization that places equity-seeking artists at the centre of public discourse.In 2018, Aria developed "Safe to Run: Bystander Intervention Training ...

Canadian mezzo-soprano Barbara King, is a force on the stage, blending artistry and athleticism in her performances. From winning a Québec Provincial Gymnastics Championship to dazzling audiences with her "exquisite vocal command of a three-octave range," Barbara has captivated in roles like Carmen, Dalilah, Princess de Bouillon, and Octavian. Barbara has graced stages across Canada and Italy, with highlights including performances with Edmonton Opera, Calgary Opera, Manitoba Opera, Opera Kelowna and the Amalfi Coast Music Festival. As Artistic Director of Calgary Concert Opera Company, she ...

Barbara Scales is the founder and President  of Latitude 45 Arts Promotion, Inc. since 1981 and also a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Music Centre since 1993.  Her work is on the creative development of artists and the assurance of stability in the field. Her work has always focused  on composers and their creative collaborators including performers, videographers, choreographers, directors directors and librettists. 

Bronwyn Thies-Thompson is a young Canadian soprano with an affinity for early and new music. She is sought after for her solid and inspired performances as a soloist and amongst small vocal ensembles, regularly performing and recording with the leading early and contemporary music ensembles in Montreal and abroad, including with Daniel Taylor’s Theatre of Early Music and JUNO-nominated Trinity Choir. Her “clean and clear voice” (National Capital Opera Society) and “natural and assured musicianship,” (Ottawa Citizen) informed by her musical upbringing as a cathedral chorister and ...

Brazilian mezzo-soprano Camila Montefusco is quickly distinguishing herself as a passionate and exciting artist. Last season, she was a young artist with the Britten Pears Young Artist Program, the Institute for Young Dramatic Voices, and Toronto Summer Music Festival. Camila has been awarded several prizes and scholarships, including First prize at the Maritsa Brookes Concerto Competition, Encouragement Prize from the Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions, Second Prize at the Galina Pisarenko Youth Competition (Russia), and the Revelation Prize at the Linus Lerner International Vocal ...

Camille Rogers (they/them) has been praised for their “tremendous stage presence” and “real flair for comedy” (Operaramblings).Camille’s “gossamer mezzo-soprano” (Mooney on Theatre) has been described as “even-keeled and grounded even in times of intense physicality” (Schmopera).Opera roles include Suli/Suzie in Buddies in Bad Times’s world premiere of Pomegranate, Lake in FAWN's collectively improvised techno opera Belladonna, Young Girl in The Marriage of Figaro with Opera Atelier, and the title role of L’Italiana in Algeri with MYOpera.Camille has also been featured as a soloist with Pax ...

A champion of vocal versatility and accomplished Métis/Indigenous musician Camryn is known for her dynamic range across contemporary classical, opera, musical theatre, and jazz. Described as an “incredible performer and instrument,” Camryn has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Centre, Manitoba Opera and across Canada and Italy. Camryn is a Fulbright Scholar and holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Manitoba and is completing her Master of Music (Opera Performance) at Montclair State University with Metropolitan Opera’s Barbara Dever. Passionate about amplifying Indigenous voices, ...

Ottawa-basedcontralto and mezzo-soprano Carole Portelance has brought her rich, clarionsound to a far-reaching spectrum of musical styles, on Canadian stages of allsizes. This past year she premiered Jack Hui Litster’s Gates of Heaven:Requiem for a Life of Peace with OperOttawa; this marks her latestcollaboration with Litster, after creating roles in his operas What is Love?(2022) and The Day You Were Born (2021).A thoughtfulinterpreter of contemporary music, Portelance has performed works by MarjanMozetich, Christine Donkin, Margrit Cattell, Petr Eben, and Ján Cikker. In2017, alongside ...

Composer Daniel Janke divides his time between Montreal, Berlin and his studio near Whitehorse, Yukon. For information and contact visit danieljanke.com

Canadian soprano Danielle Buonaiuto is known for “terrific clarity” (Baltimore Sun), “agile coloratura” (Schmopera), “entrancing and fluid” singing (DC Metro Theatre Arts), and “etherealvocals” revealing “exquisite vocal technique and luscious colors” (OperaWire). Danielle maintains an active schedule as a soloist and consort musician throughout the United Statesand Canada. Though an accomplished performer of standard repertoire, she primarily focuses on working with living composers. Most recently, Danielle made her Prototype Festival debut creating the roles of Miranda/Caroline in Eat the ...

As a sought-after voice coach, host, and lecturer, pianist David Eliakis continues to expand his musical offerings both on the concert stage and the lecture hall. His performances have taken him to the stages of Brazil, Switzerland, England, Germany, and across Canada recently as pianist and musical director for Against The Grain Theatre’s national tour of La Bohème. David shares his time between the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music, the Royal Conservatory of Music, and Against The Grain Theatre and has also collaborated with Tapestry Opera, Opera In Reach, and Amplified Opera in ...

(Photo creditJennie Williams) Deantha Edmunds is Canada’s first Inuk professional classical singer, and an award-winning performer. An urban Inuk, creator, and mentor, Deantha aims to empower Indigenous people and share their stories. She is currently based in St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador.Deantha was longlisted for the prestigious 2023 Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award from the Inuit Art Foundation. Her work has international reverberation as well as community integrity. From solo and internationally broadcast performances for His Holiness, Pope Francis in Iqaluit to acting in ...

Elizabeth Stepkowski Tarhan (she/her) born in Calgary/Mohkinstsis, is a stage director, award winning actor, singer, and educator. Elizabeth has directed for Calgary Opera, The Shakespeare Company, Seadreamer, Urban Stories/Drama on a Dime, Destiny Theatre, the Soulocentric Festival, Storybook Theatre and Stage West. She also directed new work at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the most recent of which was an exploration of her vision to add Flamenco song and dance to a new translation of The House of Bernarda Alba by the late John Murrell, OC, AOE. Elizabeth is an instructor of ...

Calling all opera and classical music lovers in Toronto!Join the Salute to 2025! New Year's Gala on December 28, 2024, at the Meridian Arts Centre!Internationally renowned bass-baritone Geo Chobanov, Canadian soprano Alexa Frankian, and the award-winning Kindred Spirits Orchestra will perform beloved operatic masterpieces!Get your tickets now! https://www.ticketmaster.ca/event/10006165C88D30DEShare with friends and family who love opera and classical music!

Emily Rocha is a soprano from Courtice, Ontario currently living in Toronto. She is a student at the University of Toronto’s renowned Opera School for her Masters degree under the tutelage of Lorna MacDonald. She is a recent graduate of U of T’s Voice Performance undergraduate program, where she was selected to perform in masterclasses for renowned artists, including Joyce DiDonato and Eric Owens. At U of T, Emily has been a recipient of the ARIAS All Past Presidents’ Scholarship (2021), the ARIAS Anne & John Craine Memorial Scholarship (2021), the Paul and Celestine Lin Graduate ...

Erin Bardua is primarily a singer, voice teacher, and stage director. Like many performers, much of Ms. Bardua's most recent work has been on film and online. In 2020, her company Essential Opera produced two operatic films: Mirror, mirror, by Anna Pidgorna; and December, by Monica Pearce. In 2021, Erin created a solo programme of contemporary and original music for unaccompanied voice and voice with flute titled Afterwards-Day, which premiered at Sappyfest: Infinite Variety, a 24-hour streamed performance event. She also played the role of Helen in a hybrid live and streaming production of ...

Evan Mitchell is proving to be one of the most able and imaginative young conductors in Canada. Mr. Mitchell has enjoyed eight triumphant seasons as Music Director of the Kingston Symphony Association, garnering praise for his programming, approach, and musical results.During his various conducting residencies, Mr. Mitchell has led over 200 concerts, acted as a Canadian ambassador during a historic two-week tour of China, Korea and Macau, and served as an official consultant to the Vancouver Olympic Committee and Assistant Producer for the recording of the medal ceremony national anthems. He ...

Celebrated for her warm voice and sense of dramatic immediacy, Canadian soprano Frédérique Vézina has performed with many opera companies including the Canadian Opera Company and Washington National Opera. A young artist with the Canadian Opera Company and the Juilliard Opera Center (New York), Mrs. Vézina made her mainstage debut as Liza in Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades during her first season as an ensemble member at the COC. She has collaborated with internationally renowned conductors including Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Richard Bradshaw, James Conlon, Hans Fricke, Bernard Labadie, Jacques ...

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Calgary born soprano Gwendolyn Yearwood has graced stages around the world with a voice that is "a force to be reckoned with" (Summerland Review). Gwendolyn is a graduate of the University of British Columbia where she completed a Bachelor's of Music (2015) and a Master's of Music (2017). During her time with UBC Opera Gwendolyn performed all over Canada, The Czech Republic, Germany, and China. Some of her more notable professional operatic performances include Mimi in La Bohème (Against the Grain Theatre), Lady Dunmow in A Dinner Engagement (Opera by Request), Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus ...

Idan Cohen was born and raised in Israel, kibbutz Mizra. After being trained as a classical piano player, Cohen received a scholarship to study theatre and fine arts at the "Art Colony", in Israel‘s Negev (desert), and graduated in excellency.At the age of 20 he joined the world known K.C.D.C (founder Yehudit Arnon, artistic director Rami Beer) where he danced for 7 seasons. Cohen holds a BA (2015) and an MFA (2017) in choreography from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.Since 2005, Cohen has been creating, performing and teaching as a choreographer and opera stage director.Since 2017, ...

Soprano Irina Medvedeva is described as being a “flexible, supple, yet powerful soprano” (The Globe and Mail) and has been praised for having “a large voice with an astonishing range” (Opera Canada).Irina was a recent Yulanda M. Faris Young Artist at the Vancouver Opera for the 2019-2020 season. This engagement included singing Annina in the mainstage production of La Traviata with the Vancouver Opera as well as covering Violetta Valéry, and Rosina in Rossini’s Barber of Seville. Past operatic engagements include Galatea in Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Norina in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, the ...

Isaiah Bell is a Canadian-American tenor, composer, and writer. Recently he combined these disciplines in his critically acclaimed solo show,The Book of My Shames; in the performance on film of his original translation/adaptation of Poulenc’s solo opera La voix humaine (a “finely tuned performance, so perfectly married to his own sensitive and intelligent adaptation” - Opera Canada); and in hybrid concept recitals across Canada. Previously Isaiah starred in the premiere of Rufus Wainwright’s Hadrian at the Canadian Opera Company, and Mark Morris’ production ofCurlew Riverat the Brooklyn ...

Jaap Nico Hamburger is the current Composer in Residence with Mécénat Musica in Montréal. His compositions include commissions from Turning Point Ensemble, Ensemble Caprice, the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra, and an original contribution for the project, “400 Years of Dutch Keyboard Music’”. His works have been performed and recorded with l'Orchestre Metropolitain de Montreal and Ensemble Caprice. He was recently commissioned by the Government of the Netherlands and the United Nations to compose a new concerto for harp and orchestra that was premiered by Lavinia Meijer in April 2021 on occasion ...

Jaclyn Grossman (she/her) is defining what it means to be a portfolio artist. Comfortable in roles both onstage and off, as a soprano, she has been hailed for her “unique voice type” (Opera Canada) and “command over a powerful range of expressive emotion” (The Whole Note). As a Co-Founder of Likht Ensemble, this season Jaclyn will curate and perform in the Shoah Songbook, a concert series with the Harold Green Jewish Theatre, sharing music by Jewish composers from the Holocaust. Likht Ensemble will also perform with the Schulich School of Music’s Alumni Concert Series in the spring of 2022. ...

Jacqueline Ko (she/her) is a multi-award-winning soprano who “knows exactly what to do with an absolutely gorgeous voice” (Review Vancouver). A versatile performance and recording artist whose work spans opera, theatre and film, a few of her notable role credits include Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Angelica in Suor Angelica, Sharon in Terrence McNally's Master Class, Lauretta and La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi, and Königin der Nacht in Die Zauberflöte. She has been praised for her “definite aptitude” (Opera Canada) as the founding artistic director of Opera Mariposa, Canada's first fully ...

Born in Linz Austria, Jeannette Aster was brought up and educated in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Trained initially as a classical dancer, she obtained her BMus in Voice Performance from McGill University before earning a graduate diploma in Opera Production at the London Opera Centre in London, England. She has since enjoyed an active international career as artistic director, opera consultant, freelance stage director and operalogue.She helped found the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble and in 1980 became its first resident director . In 1986, at the invitation of Peter Hemmings and Placido ...

Artistic director of Toronto City Opera and assistant conductor of the Mississauga Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jennifer Tung leads a uniquely versatile career as music director, collaborative pianist, and soprano. In 2020/21, she joins Tapestry Opera as a conducting fellow in the inaugural year of the Women in Musical Leadership program, in partnership with Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Pacific Opera Victoria.Jennifer debuted with the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival conducting The Mikado in 2017 and has returned to conduct Sweeney Todd and Tragedy of Carmen. In 2019, she debuted with Opera ...

Soprano Jennifer Carter has been praised as “a wonderfully honest and communicative performer” (Opera Programs Berlin) and “consummate singing actor” (BarzcaBlog). In summer 2021, she completed a role study of Chrysothemis in Strauss' Elektra with Dramatic Voices Program Berlin. She opened 2020 as both Rheinmaiden and Valkyrie in the joint Toronto production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle by Opera by Request and Berlin Opera Gruppe, singing Wellgunde (Das Rheingold, Götterdämmerung) and Waltraute (Die Walküre). Additional roles have included Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), First Lady/Erste Dame & ...

Of French, Scottish/Irish and Scandinavian ancestry, Julie is astage director, dramaturg, playwright/librettist and multi-instrumentalist. She earned her Master’s degree in Theatre from the University of York (UK) and is also a graduate of Carleton University (Music) and the Canadian College of Performing Arts (Theatre Performance; Playwriting). A four-time Jessie award nominee, she has appeared on stages throughout Western Canada, including productions at the Arts Club, Bard on the Beach, the Belfry, the Citadel, Carousel Theatre, Pacific Theatre, Fugue Theatre, Théâtre la Seizième, Twenty ...

Katya Pine: BioKatya Pine is a Canadian composer of mixed-race background. In her career as composer, she continues to strive to become proficient and versatile in many musical genres. Please see her YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@katyapinecomposer. There you will find works from solo to full orchestral and from concert to commercial genres for: opera, film, concert, art song, podcast, and more.Katya Pine obtained her degree as a Dean’s List Scholar in ‘Composition’ at the University of Toronto and then studied post-graduate at Calgary’s Mount Royal University’s ‘Jazz and Contemporary ...

Kyle Briscoe is blazing his trail as a queer interdisciplinary artist focusing on opera performance and his love of pop music. From Winnipeg, Manitoba, Kyle is a prairie boy at heart and achieved a B.Mus. in vocal performance at the Desautles Faculty of Music while studying under Mel Braun. In the Fall of 2023, Kyle began his studies towards an M.Mus in Opera and Voice from McGill University in Montréal. In his short time at the Schulich School of Music, Kyle has performed a recital of Brahms songs as part of Michael McMahon’s song interpretation class, appeared in Opera McGill’s production ...

Kyle is an award-winning poet and voice-over artist, Toronto based actor, operatic bass, writer, digital composer, director, and producer. He’s also the Managing Director for North American Operations at Octant Aerospace Consulting, and the president of his production company, Mightier Productions.

Conductor Leslie Dala enjoys a multifaceted career spanning the genres of opera, symphonic music, choral and contemporary works. On the podium, he is known for his passionate, dynamic, and charismatic approach to music making. Named one of the top ten artistic leaders by the Vancouver Sun, Dala's national profile has grown steadily with guest conducting appearances with Pacific Opera Victoria, Edmonton Opera, Saskatoon Opera, Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, Kamloops Symphony, Thirteen Strings of Ottawa, the COSI Festival in Sulmona, Italy, the Goh Ballet, University of Toronto Opera ...

Photo: Belle Ancel Photography Composer, conductor and pianist Leslie Uyeda was born in Montréal and lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. Leslie has been coach/pianist/conductor/chorus director with opera companies across Canada, and in addition to conducting mainstage productions of traditional répertoire, has conducted her own operas Game Misconduct and When the Sun Comes Out (commissioned and produced by the Vancouver Queer Arts Festival). Leslie Uyeda’s great love is the human voice. Leslie has composed four song cycles to the exquisite and poignant poetry of Japanese-Canadian poet Joy ...

Praised for his “well-projected, heroic baritone” (Opera Canada), Nikkei-Canadian baritone, Luka Kawabata, is a current member of the Yulanda M Faris Young Artists Program at Vancouver Opera. He previously appeared in last year’s digital season as Dmitri in The Music Shop and as Escamillo in Carmen: Up Close and Personal. Luka is an alumnus of Manitoba Opera's Digital Emerging Artist Program and the Banff Centre's 'Opera in the 21st Century' Program.Set to premiere Fall 2021, Luka is set to premiere two self-produced projects centred around his intersectional lived experience: “Paueru-gai” ...

JUNO, GRAMMY and DORA Award-nominated composer Luna Pearl Woolfhas long used her creative voice to advocate for social and political change. In addition to her work as a story-telling composer across genres, she is anaccomplished audio producer, as well as dramaturg and lecturer on topics in contemporary opera. In early 2020, Tapestry Opera premiered Jacqueline, Woolf's opera with librettist Royce Vavrek, garnering 5 Dora Award nominations. Other projects include work with McGill Opera, Musique 3 Femmes, the Washington National Opera and an innaugural Opera America Discovery Grant. ...

The music of award-winning composer Luna Pearl Woolf has been called “brilliant ... profoundly moving” (Opera Going Toronto), praised for its “psychological nuances and emotional depth” (NY Times) and described as “gorgeous, sometimes startling in its layering and detail” (The Whole Note). With commissions for large-scale dramatic works from New York’s Perelman Performing Arts Center, Tapestry Opera and Washington National Opera, among others, Woolf is known for her contributions to new opera, garnering a 2021 GRAMMY Award for the composer-portrait album, LUNA PEARL WOOLF: Fire and Flood. ...

In life, sometimes practicality interrupts your path to destiny. Tenor Lyndon Ladeur’s dream of becoming a performer took a detour through the University of Waterloo’s mathematics program before Opera took its place within his heart. A native of Squamish, British Columbia, Canada, Lyndon grew up an athlete, playing hockey at a high level for over ten years. During this time, Lyndon was fascinated by the idea of “competition”. Most athletes desired to be the best, whereas Lyndon strived for his best, encouraging those around him to do the same. He strongly believes that the music world has ...

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Toronto­-born mezzo­-soprano Maria Soulis began her career as a principal artist with the Regensburg Opera in Germany, performing the roles ofCarmen,Rosina,Nicklausse,Dido, andAdalgisain theatres throughout Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. In concert works from Bach to Mahler, her voice has been praised internationally by reviewers who have described it as “warm and powerful”, as well as “gorgeous, dusky­-toned” with a “ruby-red timbre”. Maria’s 2019-­20 season includedLa CiescainGianni Schicchiand theMonitorinSuor Angelica, in Pacific Opera Victoria’sIl Trittico.Maria debuted ...

Maureen focusses on celebrating Canadian classical contemporary repertoire by collaborating with established and emerging composers to commission, premie`re, and re-perform their works. Her discography includesLighthousewith Grej (ECMA Winner Classical Recording of the Year 2022);Breathing in the Shadows(JUNO nomination 2022);Aunt Helen(ECMA and Music NS nominations 2021-2);Mirror, Mirror; andLady of the Lake(ECMA and Music NS nominations 2017-8). She is the co-artistic director with Erin Bardua of Essential Opera, an opera company founded in 2010. In 2015, Maureen founded Crossing Borders, a ...

Michaela Chiste is a soprano hailing from Okotoks, Alberta. Originally trained as a stage actor, she spent most of her life studying and performing in the dramatic arts and musical theatre before crossing over to the world of classical singing in 2013. She completed her Bachelor of Musicunder the tutelage of John Tessierat the University of Alberta in 2017. She is currently working towards her Master's degree in Vocal Literature and Performance at the University of Western Ontario. She has performed as a concert soloist and recitalist both internationally and across Canada. She has served as ...

Opera artist, originally from Israel, nowadays based in Montreal. Involvement in operatic creation is my life's passion, on stage and behind the scenes. Singer, Actress, Dramatic coach, Hebrew coach, Assistant director/stage manager, Translations and surtitles. Hebrew, English, French, German, Italian .

Queer, gender non-binary, and Chinese-Canadian tenor Mike Fan | ??? (they) astonishes audiences with their versatility, passion, and commitment to social justice. Fluent in 7 languages Mike performs in 10 languages across Canada, Finland, Italy, USA, and Australia. As a host, pianist, educator, and actor, Mike brings their quicksilver wit to numerous engagements crossing disciplines, most recently as McGill University’s PGSS/AÉCSUM Equity & Diversity Commissioner and BIPOC Graduate Network founder. Mike is also Founder and Artistic Director of a ground-breaking company Opéra Queens which ...

Morgan Reid is a Nova Scotian-born portfolio artist whose diverse skillset informs her career as a performer, administrator, and academic. Morgan works as a freelance social media manager/consultant for a handful of arts organizations and individuals, was the administrator for COSA Canada’s 2020-2021 online season, and has worked as an administrative assistant and teaching assistant with Voice Studies at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music. Additionally in 2020-2021, Morgan was selected as an RBC Future Launch/LINK Emerging Artist Fellow with the Association for Opera in Canada. As a ...

Morgan-Paige (she/they) is a Tkarón:to-based experimental interdisciplinary artist. With experiences ranging from scoring short films to solo performances, her work and story were featured in Musicworks Magazine Winter 2020-2021 Issue 138, The WholeNote Magazine, Ludwig van Toronto and Toronto Guardian. Past projects include Bin Chicken film collaboration with Toronto Dance Theatre and Alyssa Martin, The Magic Wallet short film, Mission Sankofa short film, Hillside Inside’s “The Sound of Light”, “Where Do I Go?” short film with Tapestry Opera and Rock Bottom Movement, 21C Music Festival’s ...

Dramatic Coloratura Soprano, Nansee Hughes, recently made her role debut in the roles ofPterodactyl in Langan'sDino Operaand Mother Gothel inRapunzelwithVera Causa Opera(2020). She has performed the roles ofThe Fire, The Princess, and the Nightingale in Ravel'sThe Child & The Spellswith Vera Causa Opera (2019),Lillian in McCune & Cavanagh'sY2K Black Death OratoriowithPop Goes the Opera(2018), Giulietta in Bellini’sI Capuleti e i Montecchiwith Opera NUOVA (2016), Atalanta in Handel'sSerse(2010) and the Dew Fairy in Humperdinck'sHansel and Gretel(2009) with the University of Alberta ...

Ukrainian-Canadian soprano Natalya Gennadi is gaining attention in North America for her performances in wide-ranging repertoire. Natalya caused a sensation in the leading role of Oksana G, Tapestry Opera’s harrowing tale about human trafficking. Her Dora Award-nominated performance in this world premiere was described as “stunning... piercing in its openness and vulnerability” (Toronto NOW Magazine).As Mimi in La Boheme with Highlands Opera Studio, Dawn Martens of Opera Canada wrote: “Natalya was a gorgeous Mimi; not only did she look the part of the consumptive heroine, she allowed her ...

Paul Winkelmans is a baritone and arts administrator based in Toronto, On. Originally from Victoria BC, he pursued studies in music across the country, including Winnipeg and Montreal, before moving to Toronto in 2017. He has since worked as a freelance singer, performing with organizations such as The Elmer Iseler Singers, Manitoba Underground Opera, Fraser Lyric Opera and Shoestring Opera. As an arts administrator he worked with Pacific Opera as manager of their Pop Up Opera program in the summer of 2020, and is currently assistant manager of the annual Pacific Baroque Festival in Victoria, ...

Rachael Kerr is an alumna of the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio and has served as rehearsal pianist forCOC productions ofBarber of Seville, Turandot, Aïda, Hansel and Gretel, Hadrian,Elektra, La Bohème,The Elixir of Love,RigolettoandThe Nightingale and Other Short Fables. She has been part of two workshops developing world premieres by Ana Sokolovic and Ian Cusson at the COC. She was recently the Dora Award-nominated music director for Against the Grain Theatre’s Figaro’s Wedding. Rachael has also been a rehearsal pianist for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in numerous projects, ...

A multi-faceted artist, soprano Rachel Krehm is the co-founder and General Director of Opera 5. As a performer she works in opera, new music, art song, improvisation, and voice and web-series acting. Along with performing, she is a writer and producer. In 2019, Rachel performed the title role of Strauss’Ariadne auf Naxoswith Highlands Opera Studio where her performance was described as “soulful” by Opera Canada. She has performed Poulenc’sLa voix humainemultiple times, most recently with Toronto City Opera, where her performance was described as “a breathtaking virtuoso performance of ...

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Hailed as “sublime, with a beautiful resonant soprano full of colour” (Opera Canada), lyric soprano Robin Hahn has accrued credits all over the world, from Amsterdam to New York to Disneyland. Previous performances include Despina in a toured production of Così fan tutte in the Netherlands; concerts across Germany singing excerpts as Violetta in La traviata and Antonia in Les contes d’Hoffmann with the Thüringer Symphoniker; and a Canadian national tour as a soloist with the Chinese Radio Broadcasting Orchestra. Her wide variety of past roles include Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni); Musetta (La ...

A proud Newfoundlander, tenor Ryan Downey is quickly gaining nationwide recognition for his “nimbleness of voice” (Bachtrack) and “attractive lyric tenor colour” (Edmonton Journal).You’ll have seen Ryan on the opera stage recently with the Canadian Opera Company, Vancouver Opera, Toronto Operetta Theatre and Opera in Concert. Recent solo credits include the title role in Candide (North York Concert Orchestra), Tamino in Die Zauberflöte (Opera York), Rodolfo in Laboheme (COSA), Ralph Rackstraw in HMS Pinafore, Rinuccio in GianniSchicchi, Goro (Pinkerton cover) in Madama Butterfly (Windsor ...

Counter Tenor Ryan McDonald was recently hailed by Opera Canada for his performance in Dido and Aeneas: "Ryan McDonald, a young Newfoundland and Labrador countertenor, made a particularly favourable impression as Spirit. McDonald has a voice of luminous, fresh colour, combined with natural musicality and an exciting sense of narrative drama." A recent Encouragement Award winner from Metropolitan Opera National Council Audition, Ryan has been seen on stage as First Witch in Purcell`s Dido and Aeneas, Cobweb in Britten's A Midsummer Nights Dream with Opera on the Avalon, the Spirit in Purcell's ...

Sarah Albu is a soprano, experimental vocalist, composer and performance-maker. She is currently based in Tio'tia:ke - Mooniyang (Montréal). Her background in theatre and obsession with science fiction feed quirky and darkly comedic imagined worlds. She has been an invited artist at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the National Arts Centre of Canada, the Koumaria Residency in Greece, and international series and festivals across the land now known as Canada, Europe, the US and Mexico. An active soloist specializing in new/experimental music, 20th century repertoire and free improvisation, she ...

Shani Cohen’s rich, powerful mezzo-soprano voice is comfortable whether on the opera stage, the concert hall, or the synagogue sanctuary. She moved to Vancouver from New York in 2021. She received a Master of Vocal Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Houston in 2013, after which she pursued a Master of Sacred Music and Cantorial Ordination at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. Past opera credits include Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro, Giulietta in Offenbach’s Les Contes D’Hoffman, Tisbe in Rossini’s La Cenerentola, Kara Sondstromm in Pasatieri’s ...

Sheree Spencer finds creative balance as a Stage Director, Producer and Performing Artist with a strong passion for interdisciplinary art expression. Sheree graduated from McGill University in 2012 with a Major in Music and Double Minor in Drama Performance and Environmental Science. Having acting experience in both theatre, tv and film. Notable performing credits include Apocalypsis (2015 Luminato Festival), Jesus Christ Superstar (Hart House Toronto 2015), Persephone (Fringe 2016 with Pencil Kit Productions), American Gods (2018) and Anna (2020). Having returned back to Toronto in 2019 from ...

French-Canadian bassSimon Chalifouxcompleted his master’s degree at Université de Montréal. In 2016-2017 he was part ofCalgary Opera Emerging Artist Program. His most recent performances includeQuince,A Midsumer Night’s Dream;Colline,La Bohème;Figaro,Le Nozze di Figaro;Gremin,Eugene Onegin;Harasta and Farar,Cunning Little Vixen;Georges Benton,Dead Man Walking;Dr. Gibbs,Our Town. He also sang the bass and Jesus in BachSt.John Passion, and the bass in BachCoffee Cantata.During the 2019-2020 season, he made his debut with Emdonton Opera in the title role of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro. He also ...

TenorSpencer McKnighthas been described as “one of the finest tenor voices” in Canada.His voice is described as fresh and brassy with stratospheric high notes. McKnight began singing at the age of 17. He was encouraged to pursue music by an adjudicator who heard him sing at his local music festival. His passion for music finds him frequently immersed in the music of Handel, Rossini, and Britten. Spencer’s garnered much attention both in concert and in competition over the course of the last six years, including multiple awards at a national level, and the 2018 winner of the Gordon C. Wallis ...

Stephanie Ko (she/her/hers) is a disabled arts administrator, designer, consultant and national award-winning writer based in Vancouver, BC. She is the general manager of Opera Mariposa, Canada's first fully disability-led and run opera company, and she has been involved in disability and chronic illness advocacy for fifteen years in partnership with charities, funding bodies and arts service organizations worldwide. In addition to her work with Opera Mariposa, Stephanie currently sits on Actsafe's Performing Arts Standing Committee; serves on the Community Council for the Greater Vancouver ...

Canadian mezzo soprano Stephanie Tritchew (she/her) is a steadily rising singer, at home in the realms of both contemporary and standard repertoire. She has been named “one of six Canadian women making the future bright for the art form” by The Globe and Mail. Stephanie’s recent work includes diverse repertoire with companies including Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Vancouver Opera, Calgary Opera, Edmonton Opera, as well as a host of independent companies and projects. This season, Stephanie makes her Opera Kelowna debut as Béatrice in Berlioz’ Béatrice et Bénédict, Vancouver Opera mainstage ...

Mezzo-soprano Taryn Plater is a versatile performer and creator with a strong investment in the future of opera and civic artistry. With affinities for performance and production, she is active both on and off stage. An advocate for Ukrainian opera and song, Taryn created the digital artist statementFirst Stepsthrough Against the Grain's 2021 National Opera Intensive, exploring her cultural heritage through Ukrainian art song and dance. Taryn is a mentor with Opera InReach, the Founding Aristic Director ofOpera Unbound, and a 2021-2022 Artist Fellow with the Association for Opera in Canada. ...

Nikkei-Canadian settler Teiya Kasahara they/them) is a queer, trans non-binary, interdisciplinary creator-performer based in Tkarón:to. Heralded as "a force of nature" (Toronto Star) and "an artist with extraordinary things to say" (The Globe and Mail) Teiya comes from a background of over a decade of singing both traditional and contemporary operatic roles across North America and Europe such as the Queen of the Night/THE MAGIC FLUTE (Aalto-Essen, Vancouver, Edmonton), Flora Sandes/DEAD EQUAL (Edinburgh) and Fata Morgana/L'AMOUR DES TROIS ORANGES (Aalto-Essen).Appearances this season: S.O.S. ...

Praised for her “sparkly coloratura” (Opera Ramblings) and “[being] full of character and spot on in timing and delivery” (Review Vancouver), soprano Thera Barclay is in demand as an interpreter of operatic, recital, and concert repertoire. She is the recipient of many scholarships and awards for her achievements in music, including the Sheila K. Piercey Vocal Scholarship, the Lillian and Don Wright National Voice Travel and Study Scholarship, and various other prizes in the Kiwanis Music Festival and NATS Competition. She has graced stages across the nation, having performed in Ontario, Nova ...

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WeiHsi Hu is a Canadian tenor who has completed his Bachelor of Music at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in vocal studies and Master of Music at the University of Alberta majoring in choral conducting. Most recently, he studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under the tutelage of John Evans. While studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, WeiHsi coached with Liz Marcus, Richard Jackson, Andrew West, Eugene Asti, and Graham Johnson. He was selected as one of the featured soloists in Graham Johnson’s Schumann Songs Concert Series in 2010.WeiHsi has performed and ...

Yanik Gosselin, hailed for“his masterful diction and his well-supported upper register [which] made for an evening of tenorial delights” (Opera Canada), is a tenor from the Lake Temiskaming area in northeastern Ontario and is currently based in Toronto.More than just a singer, he is a passionate storyteller, a sensitive musician, and a committed collaborator. His repertoire, which includes a wide range of music, from early baroque opera to world premiere performances, and even a background in rock music, is a testament to his versatility. An experienced recitalist, Yanik moves audiences with ...

Njo Kong Kie (Composer / Artist Producer) A picnic and ping pong enthusiast, Kong Kie enjoys making music for dance, opera and theatre. His compositions include comic operas knotty together,La Señorita Mundo (SummerWorks); concert-theatre Picnic in the Cemetery (Ansan Street Arts Festival, Canadian Stage); song-cycleI swallowed a moon made of iron (Canadian Stage, PuSh Festival); music theatreMr. Shi and His Lover (Toronto Theatre Critics Award: Best New Musical, Tarragon Theatre, National Arts Centre, Cervantino Festival) andmusic for solo violin for the playInfinity(Volcano, Tarragon ...