Tenor Andrew Haji joins both the Elora Festival and Festival of the Sound for Orff’s Carmina Burana.
Both programs are led by conductor Mark Vuorinen.
Click here to learn about the performance in Elora and here for the performance in Perry Sound.
July 20 - Gambrel Barn, Elora
July 21 - Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts
Stage director Anna Theodosakis and mezzo-soprano Simona Genga present the first of two performances of Merola Opera Program's Schwabacher Summer Concert.
The program includes extended scenes from works by Donizetti, Gounod, Leoncavallo, Massenet, Puccini, and Richard Strauss, among others. Anna directs, while Simona appears in Lucrezia Borgia, singing Orsini, and Faust, singing Dame Marthe.
The program is conducted by Louis Lohraseb.
July 12 & 13 - San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Soprano Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野 joins Vancouver Opera’s Annual Opera in the Park.
Music Director Jacques Lacombe conducts the program.
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July 14 - Deer Lake Park
Mezzo-soprano Georgia Burashko continues her global tour of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen with Les Arts Florissants and Jardin des Voix at the Toronto Summer Music Festival, Lanaudière Festival, Tanglewood Music Festival, and the Caramoor Centre for Music and the Arts.
Musical director William Christie leads the production.
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July 11 - Koerner Hall
July 13 - Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay
July 18 - Seiji Ozawa Hall
July 20 - Venetian Theatre
Simon Rivard conducts Orchestre de la Francophonie for An Afternoon with Beethoven.
The program includes Beethoven’s 1st and 7th symphonies.
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July 7 - Espace Théâtre at Mont-Laurier
Soprano Claire de Sévigné and tenor Isaiah Bell join the Elora Festival for Haydn’s Creation.
The program is led by conductor Mark Vuorinen.
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July 5 - Gambrel Barn
Soprano Sydney Baedke joins the Rockport Chamber Music Festival in concert.
Sydney is joined in both programs by the Terra Quartet and Elias Dagher, on piano.
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June 21 & 23 - Shalin Liu Performance Center
Bass Kirk Eichelberger joins Opera Cultura for La Llorona.
The production is directed by Allie Bailey, with conductor Temirzhan Yerzhanov leading from the podium.
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June 22 & 23 - Mexican Heritage Plaza Theater
Baritone Jesse Blumberg joins the Baroque Music Festival Corona del Mar for Finale: Handel and Purcell Odes.
The program is directed by Elizabeth Blumenstock.
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June 23 - St Mark's Presbyterian Church
Mezzo-soprano Allyson McHardy and tenor Andrew Haji join the National Arts Centre Orchestra for Beethoven’s Ninth.
The program is led by Music Director Alexander Shelly.
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June 19 & 20 - Southam Hall
SWEAT, directed and choreographed by Dean Artists' Jennifer Nichols, makes its Toronto debut.
Winner of the Best Narrative Feature at the LA Independent Women Film Awards, SWEAT debuts with an exclusive in-person screening on Saturday, June 15th at the Revue Cinema in Toronto, followed by the digital streaming release available worldwide (June 16-30).
The work was produced by Jennifer and The Bicycle Opera Project, featuring music by Juliet Palmer and a libretto by Anna Chatterton, with cinematography led by Ash Tailor.
Baritone Dominique Côté joins Orchestre symphonique de Gatineau for Orff’s Carmina Burana.
The program is led by conductor and Artistic Director Yves Léveillé.
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June 14 - Place de la Cité park
Jennifer Tarver directs both When the Sun Comes Out and As One for NUOVA Vocal Arts.
Both productions are led by conductor Rosemary Thomson from the podium.
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June 6-9 - The Al & Trish Heuhn Theatre
Tenor Andrew Haji joins Orchestre Philharmonique et Choeur des Mélomanes for Dompierre and Fauré’s Requiem.
The program is led by conductor, Co-Founder, and Artistic Director Francis Choinière.
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June 7-9 - Maison Symphonique
Baritone Nathan Keoughan joins Chorus Niagara for the Canadian premiere of the Bernstein MASS.
The production is directed by Dean Artists’ very own Dana Fradkin, with Robert Cooper leading from the podium.
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May 31 - Partridge Hall
Elena Howard-Scott is a versatile soprano and actress, noted as "someone to watch" (LudwigVan Toronto). The Winnipeg native is quickly becoming known as a committed performer on both opera and music theatre stages across Canada. This season, Elena has been working with the generous support of the Rebanks Family Fellowship and International Performance Residency Program at The Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto), and has performed nearly a dozen solo recitals as a part of their programming. Enjoying a busy performance schedule, Howard-Scott recently made her role debut as Blanche de la Force in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites (The Glenn Gould School) under the baton of Nicolas Ellis, and made appearances in recital with Soundstreams and the Hamilton Conservatory of the Arts.
She is excited to spend the 2024 summer season studying at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, singing the role of Janine in Ruders’ The Handmaid’s Tale. The 2024/2025 season sees Elena as Sibella in Drayton Entertainment’s production of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, performing with the Victoria Playhouse Petrolia, and returning to Koerner Hall as Rapunzel in Into the Woods as part of Koerner Hall’s Special Events series.
Elena was the Grand Prize Winner of the Corcoran Concerto Competition at the Glenn Gould School (2022); was a finalist and the Kurt Weill Foundation Prize winner at the 2020 Lotte Lenya Competition; was a finalist for l’Opéra de Montréal’s Atelier Lyrique competition; and placed first in both the North Dakota/Manitoba District of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, and the CFMTA National Vocal Competition.
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Anna Theodosakis assists on Opera Theatre of Saint Louis’ production of La bohème.
The production is directed by Michael Shell, with José Luis Gomez leading from the podium.
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June 1 to 30 - Loretto-Hilton Center
Soprano Claire de Sévigné makes her company debut with San Francisco Opera in the North American premiere of Saariaho’s Innocence..
The production is remounted by Louise Bakker, with conductor Clément Mao-Takacs leading from the podium.
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June 1 to 21 - War Memorial Opera House
Soprano Sydney Baedke, soprano Andrea Hill, tenor Andrew Haji and bass-baritone Stephen Hegedus join the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra for Bruckner’s Te Deum.
The program is led by conductor Rune Bergmann.
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May 31 & June 1 - Jack Singer Concert Hall
Bass-baritone Neil Craighead joins Edmonton Opera for Wagner’s Das Rheingold.
The production is directed by Peter Hinton-Davis, with Edmonton Opera Music Director Simon Rivard leading from the podium.
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May 28 to June 1 - Citadel Theatre
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