Clearly, such an artist had a lot to offer to the lyrical stage. During the last few months, she had many opportunities to display her rich contralto voice on stage, and her talent has been rewarded in international competitions. Indeed, this multi-talented artist, who describes herself as a ‘lyrical singer-songwriter’, never ceases to amaze us.
During her training at the Opéra de Montréal’s Atelier Lyrique, this statuesque artist—who distinguished herself by her keen interest in cultural outreach. While there she used her creative energy to write booklets and create shows for younger audiences. As soon as she left the Atelier, Rose was ready to travel: “Travel is in my DNA”, she says. “My father was born in Germany, my mother in Egypt, stories of estrangement have cradled my childhood.” At McGill University, she earned a minor in European culture and literature, and took creative writing… in Italian! “Writing was a refuge during my music studies. When life goes too fast, I like to go back to it because it allows me to take stock of the experience. For example, when I recently went back to write poetry, I realized how much I had absorbed in the last year. The rhythms, the colours had changed and I could track it to the music I had performed: comes from Respighi!”
