SIMONA GENGA AND ANNA THEODOSAKIS WITH MEROLA OPERA

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

GEORGIA BURASHKO WITH LES ARTS FLORISSANTS

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

JENNIFER NICHOLS' SWEAT PREMIERES IN TORONTO

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.

DEAN ARTISTS MANAGEMENT WELCOMES ELENA HOWARD-SCOTT

WE ARE DELIGHTED TO WELCOME SOPRANO ELENA HOWARD-SCOTT TO THE DEAN ARTISTS MANAGEMENT ROSTER!

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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