Recently added articles from Opera Canada:
A place in the world.(Notebook)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The first editorial in this magazine, titled "Prestige and arias," appeared in its second issue--Opera in Canada, May/June 1960. It was unsigned, though from its generous and celebratory tone, I'm certain founding editor Ruby Mercer penned it. The magazine was published by the Canadian ...
Opera.ca, Canada's national association of opera institutions and professionals.(Honors and Awards)
Mar 22, 2009 ... OPERA.CA, CANADA'S NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF opera institutions and professionals, has given the inaugural National Opera Directors Recognition Award to J. Rob Collins for his work with the Canadian Opera Company. The new award, sponsored by BMO Financial Group, singles out one opera board ...
Mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta, who last December created the title role of Dean Burry's Pandora's Locker at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.(Honors and Awards)
Mar 22, 2009 ... MEZZO-SOPRANO WALLIS GIUNTA, WHO last December created the title role of Dean Burry's Pandora's Locker at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, has won the Royal Conservatory Orchestra Concerto Competition & Tom Thomas Award. Part of the award will be a performance of Ravel's ...
No first prize was awarded in the voice division of the 69th Montreal Symphony Orchestra/Standard life competition last November.(Honors and Awards)
Mar 22, 2009 ... No FIRST PRIZE WAS AWARDED IN THE voice division of the 69th Montreal Symphony Orchestra/Standard Life Competition last November. Second prize ($5,000) was awarded to Ontario soprano Catherine Abele, and third prize ($2,000) jointly to baritone Marc-Antoine d'Aragon and soprano Stephanie ...
Ben Heppner has been promoted to companion of the Order of Canada.(Honors and Awards)
Mar 22, 2009 ... BEN HEPPNER HAS BEEN PROMOTED TO Companion of the Order of Canada, the citation reading: "For his continued role as a premier musical ambassador ...
Tenor Jon Mac master was in the Canary Islands Music Festival in January for two concert performances in the title role of Henry Clifford, a rarely performed Isaac Albeniz opera based on events in England's 15th-century Wars of the Roses.(Artists on Stage)
Mar 22, 2009 ... TENOR JON MAC MASTER WAS IN THE Canary Islands Music Festival in January for two concert performances in the title role of Henry Clifford, a rarely performed Isaac Albeniz opera based on events in England's 15th-century Wars of the Roses. Upcoming ...
Soprano Yannick-Muriel Noah triumphed last fall in the title role of Catalani's La Wally at Stadttheater Klagenfurt in Austria.(Artists on Stage)
Mar 22, 2009 ... SOPRANO YANNICK-MURIEL NOAH triumphed last fall in the title role of Catalani's La Wally at Stadttheater Klagenfurt in Austria. This engagement was a result of winning the Belvedere competition in Vienna in 2007. She was hailed "a resounding success," her voice "voluminous and beautifully ...
Berlin-based Canadian Tenor.(Artists on Stag)
Mar 22, 2009 ... BERLIN-BASED CANADIAN TENOR Joseph Schnurr sang Orfeus in Haydn's Orfeus und Eurodyike in the opera's Berlin premiere last November with the Berliner Symphoniker, conducted and directed by Christoph Hagel. Schnurr collaborated with Hagel earlier as Tamino in a ...
Gregory Dahl.(Artists on Stage)
Mar 22, 2009 ... BARITONE GREGORY DAHL STARTED THE year in full bilingual flight with performances of the Music Master in Ariadne auf Naxos for Calgary Opera (Jan./Feb.) and Nourabad in Les pecheurs de perles for Edmonton Opera (Mar.). He's scheduled for performances of Beethoven's 9th Symphony in ...
Soprano Allyson McHardy Headed to France in March for performances of Phedre in Rameau's Hyppolyte et Aracie at Theatre du Capitole in Toulouse.(Artists on Stage)(Opera review)
Mar 22, 2009 ... SOPRANO ALLYSON MCHARDY HEADED to France in March for performances of Phedre in Rameau's Hyppolyte et Aracie at Theatre du Capitole in Toulouse. Emmanuelle Haim conducts the new production. In April, McHardy will be back in North America performing Rosina in ...
Two Opera veterans celebrated significant birthdays early this year.(Artists on Stage)
Mar 22, 2009 ... TWO OPERA VETERANS CELEBRATED SIGNIFICANT birthdays early this year. Tenor Ermanno Mauro was 70 on Jan. 20. Since retiring from singing in the late '90s, he has spent Sunday afternoons, as he did just before this birthday, conducting master classes at the Columbus Centre in Toronto. A ...
After making his role debut as.(Artists on Stage)
Mar 22, 2009 ... After making his role debut as Macbeth for L'Opera de Montreal (Jan./Feb.), baritone John Fanning will be back at the Metropolitan ...
In memoriam cornelis opthof (1930-2008).(Opera in the News)(Obituary)
Mar 22, 2009 ... WITH THE PASSING OF BARITONE CORNELIS OPTHOF, the Canadian opera world lost one of its most enduring and valued stalwarts. For 50 years, he brought his special blend of beauty of tone and dramatic verisimilitude to the stage unfailingly. Opthof passed away Dec. 16 at Sunnybrook Hospital in ...
Montreal International musical.(Company News)
Mar 22, 2009 ... competition, which this year (May 18-28) focuses on voice, has received a grant of just over $21,500 from World Federation of International Music Competitions, to launch Classical Music, a Real ...
l'Opera DE Quebec, in association grand theatre de Quebec.(Company News)
Mar 22, 2009 ... L'OPERA DE QUEBEC, IN ASSOCIATION GRAND THEATRE DE Quebec, Orchestre symphonique de Quebec and Ex Machina, Robert Lepage's production company, have received a $125,000 ...
Opera.CA has disbursed $185,000 through its.(Company News)
Mar 22, 2009 ... OPERA.CA HAS DISBURSED $185,000 THROUGH ITS Canadian Opera Creation Fund to six companies for works in progress: Montreal-based Chants Libres for Opera Feerie (composer Gilles Tremblay, librettist Pierre Morency) and Alexandra (composer Zack Settel, librettist Yan Muckle); Pacific Opera ...
City Opera Vancouver has received.(Company News)
Mar 22, 2009 ... CITY OPERA VANCOUVER HAS RECEIVED a commissioning grant of $16,000 from the Canada Council to support Pauline, a new opera set in Vancouver in March, 1913, during the last week in artist Pauline Johnson's life Composer Christos Hatzis is setting a libretto by Margaret Atwood, and the ...
Soprano Karina Gauvin follows her.(Audio/Video)
Mar 22, 2009 ... SOPRANO KARINA GAUVIN FOLLOWS HER acclaimed recording of Handel's Tolomeo for Deutsche Grammophon with two further Handel recordings for the label. The ...
Vocal artists featured on this.(Audio/Video)
Mar 22, 2009 ... VOCAL ARTISTS FEATURED ON THIS year's JUNO-nominated classical recordings include: (Classical Album of the Year, Large Ensemble) Adrianne Pieczonka on Beethoven: Ideals, of the French Revolution with L'Orchestre symphonique de Montreal conducted by Kent Nagano (Analekta AN 2 9952); ...
Wendy Nielsen.
Mar 22, 2009 ... Wendy Nielsen scored a major success in her debut in the title role of Ariadne auf Naxos for Calgary Opera in January, with the Calgary Herald writing that she has "the vocal weight to sing over an orchestra whose part is heavily scored. This is a major challenge, and Nielsen fully ...