Adam Luther
Adam Luther is one of Canada’s most exciting tenors, with a repertoire ranging from Janacek to Mozart to Puccini. This season, Adam joins Edmonton Opera for Eisenstein in Strauss’ Die Fledermaus and Vancouver Opera for Pinkerton in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, which he also covers for the Canadian Opera Company.
His 2023/2024 season included returns to Edmonton Opera for Bizet’s Carmen and the Canadian Opera Company for Janáček’s Cunning Little Vixen. Recent engagements include Bizet’s Carmen (Pacific Opera Victoria), Verdi’s Requiem (Orchestre Philharmonique et Chœur des Mélomanes), Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (Calgary Philharmonic, Regina Symphony), Handel’s Messiah with the Newfoundland Symphony, and, with the Canadian Opera Company, Verdi’s La Traviata, Strauss’ Salome, and Verdi’s MacBeth.
Recent highlights for the tenor include Luigi in Il Tabarro & Gherardo in Gianni Schicchi, and Graf Tassilo in Gräfin Mariza for Pacific Opera Victoria; Roméo in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette and Lensky in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin for Calgary Opera; and various concert galas for the Niagara Symphony, Victoria Symphony, and Sacramento Opera. In the 2021/2022 season, Adam jumped into Edmonton Opera’s La Bohème at the last minute, to star as Rodolfo for their opening night performance.
Adam’s repertoire includes Alfredo in Verdi’s La traviata (Manitoba Opera, Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivières), Rodolfo in Puccini’s La bohème (Minnesota Opera, Against the Grain Theatre), Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (Pacific Opera Victoria, Calgary Opera), Pinkerton in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly (Vancouver Opera, Pacific Opera Victoria), Anatol in Barber’s Vanessa (Pacific Opera Victoria), Cassio in Verdi’s Otello (Pacific Opera Victoria), Danilo in Lehar’s The Merry Widow (Toronto Operetta Theatre), and Stravinksy’s Renard and Le Rossignol (Opéra de Québec).
Concert credits include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (Kitchener-Waterloo and Edmonton Symphony), Mendelssohn’s Elijah (Chorus Niagara), Handel’s Messiah (Edmonton Symphony, Newfoundland Symphony), Mozart’s Requiem (Symphony Nova Scotia), Dvorak’s Requiem (Orpheus Choir, Chorus Niagara), and Verdi’s Requiem (Ottawa Choral Society). Mr. Luther has been a featured soloist with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Sounds of the Festival in Parry Sound, Aldeburgh Connection, and the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto.
August 2024
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““Adam Luther made a worthy Pinkerton…he eschewed the portrayal of making him a complete cad, making him a confident young man… Vocally too he held his own…in the long duet which closes the first act, Han and Luther captured the music’s soul-searching magic with tender beauty. His final aria, “Addio fiorito asil” captured genuine, tragic remorse.”– Madama Butterfly, Pacific Opera Victoria
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