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Corona Serenades: Q&A with Nils Brown, tenor (Canada)

By La Scena Musicale Team on 15 April 2020 Interviews, Opera

Meet Nils Brown, tenor (Canada), singer for CORONA Sérénades Australian-born Nils Brown makes his home in Montreal. He is regularly engaged by major orchestras and choral organizations in the United States, Canada and Great Britain. He has appeared with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, Edmonton Symphony, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, I Musici de Montréal, Portland Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Four Nations Ensemble, Washington Bach Consort, Lamèque Baroque Festival, Elora Singers, Tafelmusik, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Bach Choir of Bethlehem, CBC Vancouver Orchestra and Aradia Ensemble. He has recorded with the Aradia Ensemble, American Bach Society and Washington Bach Consort. Nils…

CORONA Serenades: Q&A with Rose Naggar-Tremblay (mezzo-soprano, Canada)

By La Scena Musicale Team on 14 April 2020 Interviews, Opera

Meet Rose Naggar-Tremblay, singer for CORONA Serenades. Rose Naggar-Tremblay has a bachelor’s degree from the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. Her roles for the Opéra de Montréal include Tisbe (La Cenerentola), Zora (Ana Sokolovic’s Svadba), Giovanna (Rigoletto) and Gertrude Stein (Ricky Ian Gordon’s Twenty-Seven). Other notable engagements are Anita in a concert version of West Side Story with the Orchestre de la Francophonie, concerts with the Festival de musique de Saint-Eustache, the Festival de musique de Lachine and the concert Eternal Light with I Musici de Montréal. Rose has performed the role of Duchesse Della Volta (La fille…

Corona Serenades: Q&As with Yara Zeitoun, soprano (Lebanon, living in Vienna)

By La Scena Musicale Team on 10 April 2020 Interviews, Opera

Meet soprano Yara Zeitoun, singer for CORONA Serenades. Raised by a Lebanese father and Moroccan mother in the Middle East and in Canada, Yara Zeitoun was named after a famous Arabic song by the Lebanese classical singer Fairuz. She holds a postgraduate diploma in voice and opera from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, earned with the assistance of the Waverley Fund. Yara has performed at Kensington Palace Gardens with the Peace and Prosperity Trust and in the summer of 2018 was accepted into the International Vocal Arts Institute under Joan Dornemann. She has performed Giulia (La Scala…

Corona Serenades: Q&As with Anne-Marine Suire, soprano (France)

By La Scena Musicale Team on 10 April 2020 Interviews, Opera

Meet soprano Anne-Marine Suire, singer for CORONA Serenades. An alumna of the Longy School of Music in Massachusetts and the Université de Montréal, Anne-Marine Suire made her Paris debut at the Opéra Comique in the role of Marie de Pontcourlay in Varney’s Les Mousquetaires au convent. She has served on the roster of the Académie de l’Opéra Comique (2014-2015) and the Lyon Opera Studio (2015-2016). Among the roles she has sung in Montreal are Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare), Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande), Nella (Gianni Schicchi), Suor Genovieffa (Suor Angelica). For the Centre for Opera Studies in Sulmona, Italy she has appeared as Susanna (Le…

Composers paid to create new Canadian Operas while stuck at home

By Newswire on 7 April 2020 Arts Industry, Opera

Women Opera Creator Winners Announced for $50,000 Mécénat Musica Prix 3 Femmes Montreal, Quebec, April 7th, 2020. The 2020-2021 winners for the second edition of the $50,000 Mécénat Musica Prix 3 Femmes announced today in Montreal will create three new original Canadian operas to be premiered 2021, in a staged co-production with Toronto’s award-winning independent opera company Opera 5, Montreal’s Opera McGill, Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ), and Kingston’s Queen’s University Dan School of Music. Mécénat Musica Prix 3 Femmes is awarded to teams of emerging Canadian women-identifying opera composers and librettists who demonstrate extraordinary promise in opera creation. Winners 2020-2021 Mécénat Musica Prix 3 Femmes Anna Pidgorna, composer (New Westminster BC) and Maria Reva, librettist (New Westminster BC) Parisa Sabet, composer (Toronto) and Nika Khanjani, librettist (Montreal) Sonia Paço-Rocchia, composer (Laurentides…

La Scena Musicale Launches CORONA Serenades

By La Scena Musicale Team on 6 April 2020 Art Song, Arts Industry, Classical Music, Employment, Musical Theatre, Opera, Popular Music

CORONA Serenades by La Scena Musicale La Scena Musicale is proud to launch CORONA Serenades, a new global music service bringing cheer to those coping with COVID-19 isolation and provide support for musicians. Based on our successful Singing Valentines service, which recently completed its 10th consecutive year, CORONA Serenades will marshal trained singers from around the world to provide free personalized video and audio serenades to those infected by the coronavirus and front-line healthcare workers. CORONA Serenades are also suitable for birthdays, anniversaries and other special occasions or just to reach out to friends and family. “We want to spread…

Metropolitan Opera launches weekly Free Student Streams

By Newswire on 3 April 2020 Arts Industry, Opera

Program begins with stream of Mozart’s The Magic Flute New York, NY (April 3, 2020)—On April 6, the Metropolitan Opera launches Free Student Streams, a new program of free opera streams for students and teachers worldwide during the health crisis. Drawing from the Met’s extensive online library of operas and curricular materials designed to align with the Common Core Standards, and incorporating new live virtual conversations with Met artists and educators from the company’s national education program, the initiative has been designed as an ongoing cross-curricular offering at a time when schools are closed and online classwork has increased dramatically. The first Free Student Stream will be the Met’s abridged, English-language version of Mozart’s The Magic…

Covid-19: Cancellation of the Opéra de Québec’s Chauve-Souris (French)

By Newswire on 3 April 2020 Arts Industry, Opera

En réponse à la crise sanitaire qui sévit actuellement, c’est à regret que l’Opéra de Québec se voit contraint d’annuler sa production de La chauve-souris de Johann Strauss II, qui devait être présentée au Grand Théâtre de Québec du 16 au 23 mai prochain. Le dévoilement de la saison 2020-2021 est également reporté à une date ultérieure. La santé et la sécurité du public étant la priorité, cette décision difficile s’avérait inévitable vu les circonstances. CL’Opéra de Québec suit la situation de près, et communiquera individuellement sous peu avec tous les détenteurs de billets. Le service à la clientèle continue d’offrir un service hors pairs…

COVID-19: Opéra de Montréal Cancels Magic Flute

By Wah Keung Chan on 2 April 2020 Arts Industry, Opera

Posted to the Opéra de Montréal’s website yesterday, the company has cancelled Mozart’s Magic Flute, its last production of its 2019-20 season, which was to have run rom May 16 to 26 at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier. Here is the letter on its site: Dear friends and opera lovers, Today would have been a full day of costume fittings for The Magic Flute. Members of our chorus would have been busy preparing for their first rehearsal. Soon, with the production of wigs, costumes, and accessories well underway, our cast of international singers would have gathered here in Montréal to bring Barrie Kosky’s legendary…

Orchestre Classique de Montréal unveils 2020-21 season in eight online concerts

By Newswire on 1 April 2020 Art Song, Arts Industry, Chamber Music, Orchestral

Montreal, April 1st 2020 – The current isolation measures are difficult for all music lovers, which is why l’Orchestre classique de Montréal chose to innovate and present a series of eight mini concerts online. It’s our way of offering audiences a taste of the upcoming season while bringing light and hope to the hearts of classical music enthusiasts. Starting Tuesday April 7, at 7:30 P.M., a featured soloist of the 2020-21 season will give a mini-concert on OCM’s Facebook page, taking the public on a journey of their favourite musical genres. Each 45 minute performance will unveil the programming details of our…

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