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MATTHEW CAIRNS

fter undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Toronto, he won the top prize at the Canadian Opera Company’s annual competition as well as a place in the company’s Ensemble Studio. Currently in his third and final year there, he has performed many roles on the stage of the Four Seasons Center including the Prince of Persia in , the, Gamekeeper in and the First Armed Man in . This season, he also covered Alfredo in in the company’s first staged production before an audience since the beginning of the pandemic. He will be back at the COC next season for the first time as a guest artist in Verdi’s in the role of MacDuff, alongside a star-studded cast which includes Sondra Radvanovsky and Quinn Kelsey.

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