Alain Coulombe sings as Basilio and Andrew Haji as Count Almaviva in a concert version of Il barbiere di Siviglia with l’Opéra de Québec. The production premieres on Saturday, May 29 at 3 PM ET at this YouTube link: https://youtu.be/2biWYLstanM
https://operadequebec.com/en/programming/le-barbier-de-seville/
Opera Atelier's "The Resurrection" with Carla Huhtanen, Meghan Lindsay, and Allyson McHardy goes live on Thursday, May 27 at 7 PM ET! Don't miss out on this incredible film production -- ticket holders will be able to view it for a week after the premier. https://www.operaatelier.com/season-and-tickets/2020-2021-season/handel-the-resurrection-opera-atelier?fbclid=IwAR2HcVyHEGxTNE-du5DcKkaDdB-crRrv9z7BAwUJcUjLiu-LOQqqYGKezrA
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Take a step back from your busy workday for a minute and hear tenor Theo Lebow singing as Lurcanio in Händel's "Ariodante" with Oper Frankfurt in this video from 19:25. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TYBBnol2gc&t=1165s
Tenor Isaiah Bell’s debut concert with the Early Music Vancouver with Alexander Weimann on the keyboard is now up and available to stream free for a year! Check out the stream on YouTube in this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ildo7kFpnUA
An artist of great musicality and vocal refinement, mezzo-soprano Simona Genga won First Prize and the Audience Choice Award in the 2017 Canadian Opera Company Centre Stage Competition and joined the company as a member of the Ensemble Studio program. Further awards and prizes include the Jim and Charlotte Norcop Song Recital Prize, the 2019 Ruby Mercer Award and she was named one of the CBC’s “30 Under 30 Canadian Classical Musicians”. Recipient of the Barbara and Stanley Richman Award for demonstrating “exceptional potential for a significant career” at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, she has also attended the Ravinia Steans Music Institute, the Franz Schubert Institute and the Chautauqua Institution in New York. Roles for the “compelling and technically confident” (Opera Canada) mezzo-soprano include the High Priestess in Äida, Gertrude in Hansel and Gretel, Second Maid in Elektra and Berta in Il barbiere di Siviglia. The Ontario native is a recent Master’s graduate in Opera at the University of Toronto.
https://www.deanartists.com/simona-genga
http://www.simonarosegenga.com/
That rarest of voices, a true bass, Matthew Treviño’s repertoire stretches from the classical idiom epitomized by Sarastro in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte to the contemporary complexities of works by Robert Patterson, Michael Nyman and Gordon Getty. Terviño has appeared with English National Opera, Vancouver Opera, St. Louis Symphony, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Opera Leipzig, Florentine Opera, Hawaii Opera Theatre, Colorado Symphony, and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Possessing a “mellifluous bass that is at once robust and gentle” (Opera Magazine), the Texas native’s discography includes The Canterville Ghost, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat and Three Way. Mr. Treviño is a former member of the world renowned Merola Opera Program in San Francisco and is a graduate of Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He was a winner in the Loren L. Zachary Foundation Competition, Dallas Opera Competition, Fort Worth Opera’s McCammon Voice Competition, and the recipient of the Thomas Stewart Award for Vocal Excellence at Baylor University. The Schulich School of Music of McGill University in Montréal recently appointed Mr. Treviño to the position of Assistant Professor, Voice.
https://www.deanartists.com/matthew-trevino
https://www.matthewtrevino.com/
Joined by pianist Carolyn Maule and baritone Russell Braun, Miriam Khalil presented “To the Distant Beloved,” a recital at the Koerner Hall streamed online. The repertoire included the world premiere of Afarin Mansouri‘s beautiful songs Āshéghāné-Hā, commissioned by Canadian Art Song Project.
It's Saturday! Start the weekend right by checking out Samuel Chan perform "Homesickness" by the Chinese composer Huang Zi as part of Theater Kiel’s project ”Songs from Home”! Click the link here to watch: https://fb.watch/4GPDvRETWp/
Michael Zarathus-Cook’s new article on CBC Music gives a shout-out to Rebecca Cuddy as it discusses how companies and artists across the country are reinvigorating the genre of opera with diverse and fresh perspectives. Read the piece “How independent companies are saving opera” in this link.
Soprano Jonelle Sills and other artists of the Vancouver Opera’s Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program star in the Canadian premiere of Richard Wargo’s short comedic opera “The Music Shop”! Catch this brilliant comedy at digital.vancouveropera.ca.
Soprano Claire de Sévigné is joined by Aviva Fortunata in Pacific Opera Victoria’s recital “Two Sopranos, One Friendship.” Tune in on Friday, March 12 10:30 EST for this intimate recital filmed live in the Wingate Studio of POV’s Baumann Centre and streamed online here! #bestfriendsdealwithit
What better way to spend the upcoming Valentine's Day than with Opéra de Québec's "L’Amour à l’opéra, ou Les mots / maux d’amour"? Catch tenor Matthew Dalen and Dominique Côté in the Gala on the 14th at 3 PM, to be livestreamed for free on Opéra de Québec's Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrG5v4MtqyA
Voicebox: Opera in Concert's "La voix humaine" featuring Miriam Khalil and actress Chilina Kennedy is The Globe and Mail critic's pick! Read about this show described as "a gripping choice for today's opera-deprived" on the Globe and Mail website (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/.../article-voicebox.../...) and buy the tickets to the online stream at https://www.eventbrite.ca/.../the-human-voice-tickets.....
Mark your calendars for a new STRATFEST@HOME series! "Up Close and Musical" featuring Marcus Nance kicks off tomorrow (January 28) at 7 PM EST.
A coverage of our friends Opera Lafayette's "The Blacksmith" starring Dominique Côté among others can be found in the December issue of Opera Canada! For more details on how to subscribe, go to https://operacanada.ca/happy-60th-anniversary-opera-canada/
In the latest issue of Opera Canada, you can find photos of our very own Matthew Dalen included in the magazine's coverage on Young Artists Programs across Canada. Support Opera Canada today by signing up to their yearly subscription, and get their beautiful 60th anniversary issue as a free gift!
We're so excited for City Opera Vancouver's "The Human Voice" with Isaiah Bell! Check out the first episode now!
Jonelle Sills is featured in Opera Canada's December issue! Head over to your copy now to read the profile by Michael Zarathus-Cook, and if you don't have a subscription yet, go and sign up today!
David Pomeroy’s debut album “Great Tenor Arias” is out on all music platforms now! Check out the link below to have a listen where ever music is available.
That’s a wrap! Opera Canada’s 2020 Opera Canada Awards — The Rubies was livestreamed free to a virtual audience on Monday, November 23, at 8 PM. Dean Artists extends our warmest congratulations to all of the honourees, Barbara Hannigan, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Michael Schade, and Edward Johnson (posthumous), as well as all of the participants including our very own, Topher Mokrzewski. See the awards show again at operacanada.ca/the-rubies!
Beginning Friday, December 13th, Against the Grain Theatre’s “Messiah/Complex” featuring sopranos Andrea Lett and Miriam Khalil will be available to view until Saturday, December 26th, 2020. Sung in Arabic, Dene, English, French, Inuktitut, and Southern Tutchone, “Messiah/Complex” is a daring new interpretation of Handel’s Messiah performed by soloists and ensembles across Canada, including the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. See the Toronto Star coverage of the program from Monday, November 9 here.
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