Winter 2022

Opera Canada

Canada's only Magazine Dedicated Exclusively to Opera

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Notebook
We know we need to ask ourselves more questions, collaborate more, invite more perspectives into the discussion, and ultimately experiment more—not just with what is on stage, but with the inner administrative workings too. This magazine issue unders
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Opera Canada
Ruby Mercer David Speers, Chair Indi Gopinathan Jason Howard Eva Innes Robert Morassutti, Vice Chair Michelle Xia Margaret Genovese Alia Rosenstock Richard Turp James Warrillow Elizabeth Bowman editorial@operacanada.ca Angela Bell outreach@operacanad
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Take Note
Identity: A Song Cycle is an intimate new film from the awardwinning creators of Messiah/Complex. It fuses genre-bending classical music and poetry to explore coming to terms with who you are. The film stars acclaimed baritone Elliot Madore with orig
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Brian Cho
His musicianship has earned him accolades from the London Music Scholarship Foundation, the Maritsa Brookes Concerto Competition and the Kiwanis Music Festival, to name a few. A sought-after collaborative pianist and vocal coach, Brian has recently j
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Letter From Vienna
Wallis Giunta gives us a glimpse into her new Viennese life, and an insider’s look into what’s happening at the Volksoper CHANGE IS IN THE WIND HERE IN THE CITY OF Music. I sense it in the brisk step and quick smile of my colleagues at the Vienna Vol
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Charlotte Lee — Propelling Artist Careers
As A FORMER PUBLICIST, I have always felt there should be a cohesive working relationship between an artist’s PR and management teams. Primo Artists made the shift in 2020/21 adding a PR wing to their management enterprise, so I wanted to talk to Cha
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The 2022 Rubies Gala
JOHN FANNING RUBY RECIPIENT In a profession known for its impermanence, Canadian baritone John Fanning is longevity personified. From his debut in 1980 in the small role of the Commissioner in La Traviata for Opera Hamilton, to his last public perfor
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Rebecca Hass
When it comes to rethinking, decolonizing, and finding ways to create a more compassionate, inclusive opera industry, there are few better equipped to lead this charge than Rebecca Hass, recipient of Opera Canada’s newly instated Nada Ristich Changem
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Essential Perspectives: Business Experts Interpret Opera …
With degrees in business, computer science and psychology and professional education from MIT Sloan and Sustainable Business Strategy from Harvard, Hansen is committed to paying it forward; she serves as a judge and advisor to the WE Empower UN SDG C
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Power In imagination
Ottawa-born Joan Patenaude-Yarnell likes to say she sings with many voices. She coined the expression a long time ago to describe the difference between what she felt was her one voice as an opera singer, and the freedom and abundant richness of her
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Shar leen Joynt
It’s been over seven years since Joynt was on season 18 of The Bachelor (a popular American dating and relationship reality television series) where her presence caused two sets of stereotypes to collide. Bachelor viewers and media praised her for br
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Virginia Zeani
1965 A champion of bel canto, she turned heads when she stepped in for Maria Callas in 1952. Olivier Bergeron tells us about her storied career On October 21, 2022, Romanian soprano Virginia Zeani was inducted into Opera America’s hall of fame alongs
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MARIE-EVE MUNGER hits All The Rightnotes
MUNGER CURRENTLY LIVES IN FRANCE, in a country house where, between engagements, she grows vegetables, cooks, and spends time with her son and her husband, the British opera, film and television director John La Bouchardière. She owes her brilliant c
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Luca pisaroni
“I’ll try to get it right this time,” Luca Pisaroni says of his upcoming production of Le nozze di Figaro. “It’s what keeps me going.” When I suggest to him that he is among the premiere Figaros in the world, he instantly scoffs at the idea—“No. I am
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“Words and Music Are Not Dying—So Opera Will Not Die”
D.W-P.: What is your advice to young directors? RC: First of all, to ask themselves, what is directing? Directing most of the time is telling someone else’s story. The director must keep in mind that they did not write the story, but rather as a team
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The New Patronage
DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONALS in the arts do exceptional work for far less than they could earn in the healthcare or postsecondary education sectors. But for Canadian arts, fundraising is simply too short-term. Still defining what its culture is; this co
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Between Worlds
DONNA BROWN, POETRY AND LYRICS; MARGARET MARIA, COMPOSER CENTREDISCS — CMCCD30622 RELEASED JUNE 24, 2022 This 31-minute work plays like a mini-opera ”HER VOICE STOOD OUT IN MY HEAD.” Margaret Maria still remembers hearing the voice of Donna Brown for
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For Love Of The Opera
THE SUMMER OF 2011 SAW THE opening of the Michael and Inna O’Brian Centre for Vancouver Opera, a new home where the organization’s administration offices, rehearsal rooms, costumes and sets could all be accommodated under a single roof. This welcome

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