Mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta is feeling the loss as she social-distances from her home base in the UK: What is something you've lost to the pandemic? "Aside from about six months of lost performing work (so far...), my biggest loss to this pandemic has been the...
Kitchen renovations and walks with loved ones are getting Canadian tenor David Pomeroy through the pandemic madness. Our Quarantine Questions go to the native of St. John's, NL. What is something you've lost to the pandemic? "Certainly not any weight! Ha! I was very...
Balancing the loss of normalcy with the welcome respite from his fast-paced career: our next set of Quarantine Questions goes to baritone Brett Polegato. What is something you've lost to the pandemic? "This isn't something I have lost so much as something I am in the...
A lost gig together, a new puppy, and going philanthropic: our next set of Quarantine Questions goes to Canadian baritone Étienne Dupuis, and his wife, Australian soprano Nicole Car: What is something you've lost to the pandemic? Étienne: "Our Werther at The Met was...
Phillip Addis was ready to tour a new production of Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, until the looming lockdown in Italy meant an overnight flight home after dress rehearsal. The Canadian baritone answers our Quarantine Questions: What is something you've lost to the...
Saying goodbye to Salome, and putting her pantry stores to good use: our next set of Quarantine Questions goes to British Columbia native, soprano Ambur Braid. What is something you've lost to the pandemic? "I found out on the eve of what would have been our fourth...
Zoom trivia & missed culinary experiences: baritone and Prince Edward Island native Nathan Keoughan answers our latest Quarantine Questions. What is something you've lost to the pandemic? "Besides losing a few debuts in my budding young opera career, what I am...
In a special installment of our Quarantine Questions, we chat with coloratura soprano Claire de Sévigné about her whirlwind 48 hours out of Switzerland, and with her partner, David Bozzi, a paramedic with York Region Paramedic Services, about the combined value of the...
For pianist-vocal coach Carrie-Ann Matheson, the biblical saying that ‘a prophet is not honoured in his own land’ has a certain ring of truth, in her case musically. She’s virtually unknown in Canada, even though she’s that rare bird—a Canadian pianist/opera coach...
“My voice teacher was verbally abusing me,” explains Emily Bilton, drag artist and opera alum. "I ended up failing my third-year recital by 2 percent. I had to get a 65 and I got a 63. And the only explanation they could give me was that my tone wasn’t what they...
In a profession known for its impermanence, a near 30-year career in opera is a cause for celebration. Since his professional debut in 1991 at Pacific Opera Victoria, tenor Benjamin Butterfield has enjoyed an enviable career both at home and abroad, in a wide-ranging...
Tucked away in the halls of the University of Toronto, past a dizzying variety of architectural pinpoints that make up its network of colleges, lies UofT Music School’s Early Music program. Charged with exposing students to pre-classical repertoire, the program is the...