CANADIANS NEXT ON STAGE
May 01 2025 - Jun 01 2025
2025 Benefit + Awareness Month Various
Opera Mariposa
May 02 - 24 2025
Eugene Onegin Tchaikovsky
Canadian Opera Company
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts
May 13 - 24 2025
Mahabharata Part One: Karma: The Life We Inherit John Gzowski and Suba Sankaran
National Arts Centre and Why Not Theatre
Babs Asper Theatre
May 14 - 24 2025
Mahabharata: Dharma – Part 2t John Gzowski and Suba Sankaran
National Arts Centre and Why Not Theatre
Babs Asper Theatre
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CANADIANS NEXT ON STAGE
2025 Benefit + Awareness Month Various
Opera Mariposa
Eugene Onegin Tchaikovsky
Canadian Opera Company
Mahabharata Part One: Karma: The Life We Inherit John Gzowski and Suba Sankaran
National Arts Centre and Why Not Theatre
Mahabharata: Dharma – Part 2t John Gzowski and Suba Sankaran
National Arts Centre and Why Not Theatre
Ariadne auf Naxos Strauss
MusikfuerMusik Künstler Kollaborativ
Berlin
FEATURED CANADIANS: Piano: Boram Ahn, Zerbinetta: Lara Secord-Haid, A Wigmaker / Harlequin: Micah Schroeder
Text from the MusikfuerMusik Künstler Kollaborativ website:
Can you perform a vaudeville play and a serious Greek opera at the same time and as one piece? Strauß and Hoffmansthal dare to try this with this much-loved comic but also profound masterpiece.
Have you found the answer to what makes good art and good entertainment? We hope you are well entertained at the Ariadne auf Naxos concert in the Bürgersaal Berlin Zehlendorf!
A Rich Man’s Party: The performers from two different shows wait backstage before providing the evening’s entertainment… but then there’s a sudden change of plans. The rich man decides that the opera seria and the vaudeville should be performed in one piece…and must finish promptly at 9 p.m. so they can watch the fireworks afterwards!
“Ariadne” (aka, the opera’s main singer) is not amused, but Zerbinetta finds this a good opportunity to improvise and have a good time. Will the ladies and their gentlemen pull off the show?
Prepare for an evening of fun and musical thrills in this masterpiece by Strauss and Hofmannsthal.
This project is dedicated in loving memory to Bette McNaught.
OCCUPATION
Musical direction: Peter Selwyn
Director: Sebastian Tylle
Piano: Boram Ahn
Steward: Titian Steffen
Music teacher: Haakon Schaub
Composer: Sidney Walker
Tenor/Bacchus: Jeffrey Hartman I Paul Mcleod (cover)
An officer / Scaramuccio: Ludwig Obst
The Dancing Master / Brighella: Vernon Kirk
A Wigmaker / Harlequin: Micah Schroeder
A lackey / Truffaldin: Oliver Pürckhauer
Zerbinetta: Lara Secord-Haid I Meagan Rao (Cover)
Primadonna/Ariadne: Vanessa Lanch I Kristel Vinter Knudsen (cover)
Naiad: Hanxiao Wang
Dryad: Anna-Louise Costello
Echo: Katsia Zhynhiarouskaya
Angela Bell is Opera Canada’s Digital Media Specialist. She has held digital and PR roles with various businesses including the Walt Disney Company, Sullivan Entertainment and Toronto International Film Festival.