Yevgeny Onegin: Russell Braun in the title role of the San Francisco Opera...

Opera Canada;  March 22, 2005 ;     324 words ...Canadians Russell Braun and Allyson McHardy took the crucial roles of Eugene Onegin and Olga in San...ravishing sincerity, which Gustav Andreassen sang handsomely. Allyson McHardy caught Olga's energy and charm with a fresh, young mezzo...

Mezzo-soprano Allyson McHardy will make her New York City Opera...

Opera Canada;  June 22, 2005 ;     44 words ...Mezzo-soprano Allyson McHardy will make her New York City Opera debut as Marquise Melibea in Rossini's Il viaggio a Rheims (Sept.-Oct.). Future engagements include Flosshilde in Gotterdammerung (Jan. 06) and Margret in Berg's Wozzeck (Apr. 06), both with the Canadian Opera Company.

Isabella in L'Italiana in Algeri figures prominently in mezzo-soprano...

Opera Canada;  March 1, 2007 ;     62 words ...ISABELLA IN L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI FIGURES PROMINENTLY IN mezzo-soprano Allyson McHardy's calendar this year. She sings this delicious Rossini heroine in opera houses in Lille, Amiens and Caen, France, this November...

Der Kaiser von Atlantis/The Maids: Nancy Allen Lunday (Claire, left) and...

Opera Canada;  September 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Loudspeaker, most of his part performed unflinchingly in live video as part of the Kaiser's television broadcasts. Fellow Canadian Allyson McHardy, gun-toting and dressed like a fitness trainer, had both the voice and the stage presence to make War a kinetic, menacing...

Allyson McHardy.(OnStage)

Opera Canada;  September 22, 2004 ;     662 words ...Celebrating some summer star turns by Canadian artists It's just been an incredible year, says mezzo Allyson McHardy as she settles into her seat in the JeanRo Bistro, a casual French spot in downtown Cincinnati. McHardy is midway through an engagement...

Artists on stage.(Tracking Canadians at home & abroad)

Opera Canada;  December 15, 2004 ;     442 words ......Soprano Nathalie Paulin will sing Mary Magdalene in Handel's La resurrezione (Mar. 2-12); soprano Laura Whalen and mezzo Allyson McHardy will star in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Andrei Serban (May 18-28); and mezzo Krisztina Szabo will...

Sirens/Sirenes.

Opera Canada;  September 22, 2000 ;     376 words ......progress--may have had seemed largely due to the show's six virtuoso singers: Jane Archibald, Barbara Hannigan, Tamara Hummel, Allyson McHardy, Krisztina Szabo and Laura Whalen. Under the impeccable musical direction of founders Dairine Ni Meadhra and John Hess...

His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, Will Be in Toronto...

Armenian Reporter, The;  May 5, 2001 ;     700+ words ......The Elmer Iseler Signers, and Sinfonia Toronto conducted by Nurhan Arman, and soloists Aline Kutan, coloratura soprano, Allyson McHardy, mezzo-soprano, and Joseph Kaiser, baritone, on Monday, May 21, at 7:30 p.m. at St. Michael's Cathedral, Toronto. His Holiness...

British bass-baritone Pavlo Hunka has recruited several Canadian artists...

Opera Canada;  March 1, 2007 ;     100 words ......songs by Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko. Hunka has enlisted sopranos Adrianne Pieczonka and Isabel Bayrakdarian, mezzo Allyson McHardy, tenor Benjamin Butterfield, baritone Russell Braun, cellist Roman Borys, flautist Doug Stewart, pianist Albert Krywolt...

Madama Butterfly. (Opera in Review: Toronto).(Opera Review)

Opera Canada;  June 22, 2003 ;     457 words ......sometime Miami policeman, the beefy debuting tenor Jorge Antonio Pita, made a rather stolid Pinkerton, while mezzo-soprano Allyson McHardy was a compassionate Suzuki. John Kriter's marriage-broker, Goro, headed a list of convincingly etched supporting characters...

In review: Toronto

Opera News;  February 22, 1997 ;     248 words ......informed with human warmth. The god Pan (Robert Martin Reid) appeared as a disconsolate nightclub crooner. The vengeful Juno - Allyson McHardy, in a stunning purple suit accessorized with boutique shopping bags was realized subtly enough to be both hilarious and...

Nabucco. (VICTORIA).(Review)

Opera Canada;  September 22, 2001 ;     208 words ......restricted in terms of dramatic strength. Outstanding beyond all aspects of the production were Roy Cornelius Smith (Ismaele) and Allyson McHardy (Fenena). Smith's vocal valiance and free lyricism camouflaged his limited stage presence, as was the case with Stephen...

Madama Butterfly: Marc Heller (Pinkerton) and Liping Zhang in the title...

Opera Canada;  December 15, 2004 ;     253 words ......budding maturity and enough emotion to drive the tragedy towards a convincing conclusion. Zhang was ably supported by mezzo Allyson McHardy (Suzuki), whose stunning ensemble pieces with Cio-Cio-San in Act II provided an appropriate counterpart to those of Pinkerton...

Madama butterfly: Christiane Riel (Cio-Cio-San) and Mark Hervieux...

Opera Canada;  June 22, 2004 ;     239 words ......Marc Hervieux (Pinkerton) is not yet a fluid actor, but his voice is solid and beautiful, and every phrase was a delight. Allyson McHardy (Suzuki) sang with lovely tone, and John Avery's Sharpless, expertly sung, evinced pointed concern about the marriage from...

I Pagliacci. (Opera in Review: Edmonton).(Opera Review)

Opera Canada;  December 22, 2002 ;     242 words ......seemed in place but not up to speed, so the singers had little chemistry. Sonnenberg was a fine, sympathetic Santuzza, and Allyson McHardy sang voluptuously as Lola. Corman's Turiddu was rather stiff, but Laperriere sang and acted rousingly. The chorus was well...