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Jun 01, 2008; Gooding, Wayne ... WE'VE RUN A NUMBER OF articles over the past several issues about the quite radical changes digital technologies are making to the availability of opera, driven to a large degree by the Metropolitan Opera through its HD movie broadcasts and its use of alternatives for radio transmission ...

Soprano Suzie LeBlanc received an honorary doctorate.(Awards and Competitions)

Jun 01, 2008 ... SOPRANO SUZIE LEBLANC RECEIVED AN HONORARY DOCTORATE from the University of King's College in Halifax May 15. The university cites her pioneering efforts to promote Acadian music through her 2004 disc, La Mer Jolie:chants d'Acadie (ATMA 22330), which celebrated the 400th anniversary of the ...

Canadians took the two top sports in the 32nd annual Lyndon Woodside Solo Competition under the aegis of the New York Oratorio Society.(Awards and Competitions)

Jun 01, 2008 ... CANADIANS TOOK THE TWO TOP SPORTS IN THE 32nd annual Lyndon Woodside Solo Competition under the aegis of the New York Oratorio Society. Baritone Tyler Duncan of Prince George, B.C., won First Prize (Ruth Lopin Nash Award, worth $7,000). while Toronto-born bass-baritone Stephen Hegedus ...

The 11th annual Alice tully Vocal Arts.(Awards and Competitions)

Jun 01, 2008 ... THE 11TH ANNUAL ALICE TULLY VOCAL ARTS Debut Recital, awarded to promote an outstanding young graduate from the Juilliard School in New York, this year went to Canadian soprano Katherine Whyte. She gave the recital at Carnegie Hall's Weill ...

At the annual Orchestre symphonique de.(Awards and Competitions)

Jun 01, 2008 ... AT THE ANNUAL ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE Trois-Rivieres Competition in Quebec, soprano Leslie Ann Bradley won First Prize/Prix Fondation Desjardins ($2,000), Prix Marmen ($1,000) and Prix Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivieres (a concert). Second Prize was awarded to soprano Marianne ...

Soprano Hayley Crittenden, a graduating student from the Vancouver Academy of Music, is the winner of the Kay Meek Voice Scholarship.(Awards and Competitions)

Jun 01, 2008 ... SOPRANO HAYLEY CRITTENDEN, A GRADUATING student from the Vancouver Academy of Music, is the winner of the Kay Meek Voice Scholarship, the Judith Forst Scholarship for Vocal Excellence and the Vancouver Opera Guild Scholarship. As part of the Kay Meek Award, she gave a concert at the ...

The women's musical club of Winnipeg.(Awards and Competitions)

Jun 01, 2008 ... THE WOMEN'S MUSICAL CLUB OF WINNIPEG awarded First Place and $10,000 to soprano Sarah Halmarson in the Second Biennial Doris McLellan Competition for Solo Performance with the Winnipeg Symphony ...

An ailing Ben Heppner was replaced by fellow Canadian John Mac Master on the Mar. 10 opening night of the Metropolitan Opera's Tristan und Isolde, opposite soprano Deborah Voigt.(Artists on Stage)

Jun 01, 2008 ... AN AILING BEN HEPPNER WAS REPLACED BY fellow Canadian John Mac Master on the Mar. 10 opening night of the Metropolitan Opera's Tristan und Isolde, opposite soprano Deborah Voigt. Heppner suffered from a serious blood borne infection that was misdiagnosed in New York, causing him to miss ...

Conductor Bernard Labadie made his debut in Barcelona.(Artists on Stage)

Jun 01, 2008 ... CONDUCTOR BERNARD LABADIE MADE HIS debut in Barcelona at the Gran Teatre del Liceu last February in an all-Handel concert of arias and ...

At the end of March, malta-based Canadian conductor Eric Hull conducted Thais.(Artists on Stage)

Jun 01, 2008 ... AT THE END OF MARCH, MALTA-BASED Canadian conductor Eric Hull conducted Thais in the recently renovated Teatro Perez Galdos in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. Besides ...

Mezzo Allyson McHardy, praised for he rich-toned Olga in the Canadian Opera Company's Eugene Onegin in April.(Artists on Stage)

Jun 01, 2008 ... MEZZO ALLYSON MCHARDY, PRAISED FOR HER RICH-toned Olga in the Canadian Opera Company's Eugene Onegin in April, is looking forward to new assignments on both sides of the Atlantic. She sings Rosalind in Sir Richard Rodney Bennett's The Mines of Sulphur for Wexford ...

Soprano Shannon Mercer, Mezzo Jean Stilwell.(Artists on Stage)

Jun 01, 2008 ... SOPRANO SHANNON MERCER, MEZZO JEAN STILWELL and baritone Theodore Baerg will be performing in Not the Messiah when Eric Idle takes his comic oratorio on the road this summer. Inspired by the film ...

Sopranos Melinda Delorme and Yannick-Muriel Noah, baritones Justin Welsh and Jon-Paul Decosse and bass-baritone Andrew Stewart completed their tenure with the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio.(Artists on Stage)

Jun 01, 2008 ... SOPRANOS MELINDA DELORME AND YANNICK Muriel Noah, baritones Justin Welsh and Jon-Paul Decosse and bass-baritone Andrew Stewart completed their tenure with the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio with a Farewell Concert to a packed audience at the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre May 1 ....

After a string of competition successes, in particular her triumph at the International Hans Gabor Competition in Vienna, soprano Yannick-Muriel Noah.(Artists on Stage)

Jun 01, 2008 ... AFTER A STRING OF COMPETITION SUCCESSES, IN particular her triumph at the International Hans Gabor Competition in Vienna, soprano Yannick-Muriel ...

Soprano Measha Brueggergosman.(Artists on Stage)

Jun 01, 2008 ... SOPRANO MEASHA BRUEGGERGOSMAN, after taking on her first Mozart role with Elettra for Toronto's Opera Atelier in April, has signed on for more opera in the upcoming seasons--Valentine in a concert Les Huguenots for New York City Opera next season and, ...

Soprano Kathryn Domoney has established a classical-artist agency.(New Beginnings)

Jun 01, 2008 ... SOPRANO KATHRYN DOMONEY HAS ESTABLISHED A classical-artist agency, Domoney Artists Management (www.domoney-artists.com), with a roster of 11 up-and-coming singers, including soprano Virginia Hatfield, mezzo Marion Newman and baritone Giles Tomkins. Hatfield will sing Zerlina in Don ...

The Opera division of the Faculty Of Music at the University of Toronto.(New Beginnings)

Jun 01, 2008 ... THE OPERA DIVISION OF THE FACULTY OF MUSIC AT THE University of Toronto has named Sandra Horst to the position of Director of Musical Studies, starting this fall. Currently chorus director for the Canadian Opera Company, Horst will work ...

In a season of radical changes to the programming strategy.(New Beginnings)

Jun 01, 2008 ... IN A SEASON OF RADICAL CHANGES TO THE programming strategy of CBC Radio 2, executive producer Robert Cooper has decided to move on after 31 years with the corporation. At the CBC, Cooper would be best-known to readers as Executive Producer of both Saturday Afternoon at the Opera and Choral ...

More than 400 well-wishers filled the stage of the University of Toronto's MacMillan Theatre Apr. 17 to pay tribute to Stephen Ralls.(Very fond farewell.)

Jun 01, 2008 ... MORE THAN 400 WELL-WISHERS FILLED THE STAGE OF THE University of Toronto's MacMillan Theatre Apr. 17 to pay tribute to Stephen Ralls, retiring after 30 years at the Faculty of Music and 12 as director of its Opera Division. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Following a toast by ...

Margaret Atwood has written the libertto for Pauline.(New Works)

Jun 01, 2008 ... MARGARET ATWOOD HAS WRITTEN THE LIBERTTO FOR Pauline, a chamber opera about the life and last days of Pauline Johnson, the writer-performer of Mohawk and English ancestry who toured Canada, Britain and the U.S. from the late 1800s to 1909. City Opera Vancouver will ...