WE ARE DELIGHTED TO WELCOME SOPRANO Teiya kasahara 笠原 貞野 TO THE DEAN ARTISTS MANAGEMENT ROSTER!
Nikkei Canadian settler Teiya Kasahara 笠原 貞野 (they/them) is a queer/trans non-binary opera singer and theatre creator based in Tkarón:to (Toronto). Recently featured in the CBC short-doc OPERA TRANS*FORMED, Teiya is a graduate of the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio and the 2022 recipient of the Joseph S. Stauffer Prize in Music (Canada Council for the Arts).
Heralded as “a force of nature” (Toronto Star), a “commanding presence” (Theatre Reviewer), and “an artist with extraordinary things to say” (The Globe and Mail), Teiya has nearly 20 years of experience singing both traditional and contemporary operatic roles across North America and Europe. Highlights include engagements with the Canadian Opera Company, Edmonton Opera, Vancouver Opera, Vancouver Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Windsor Symphony, Against the Grain Theatre, Aalto-Essen Musiktheater (Germany), Opéra Toulon, Tapestry Opera, the Luminato Festival with Beverley Glenn Copeland, and Theatre Gargantua, among others.
For the 2022/2023 season, Teiya is a resident artist with re:Naissance Opera’s Indie Fest, developing new works including Imaginarium; Inferno, a new hip hop opera by Omari Newton and Amy Lee Lavoie; a live computer animated performance of Eurydice: Into the Underworld; and a concert with BIPOC Voices. They are also covering the title role in Salome with the Canadian Opera Company, and returns to the COC to perform the Priestess & Bartender in the premiere of Marshall and Hale’s Pomegranate later in the season. They will also be seen singing the soprano solo in Beethoven‘s Symphony No. 9 (Kingston Symphony Orchestra) and Orff’s Carmina Burana (Amadeus Choir). Upcoming engagements also include Japanese opera Nae by Kokichi Kusano, a new opera by composer Rita Ueda, and video opera The Future’s Market by Douglas Rodger and Kong Kie Njo.
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