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To Engage our Audience and Enhance our Community through the Magic of Opera. |
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Calgary, AB – Calgary Opera is proud to announce its 37th season - a season with something for everyone: a classic drama with a newly-designed set developed here in Calgary; a comedy featuring a world-renowned Tenor and a star-studded cast; and a popular hit, whose music is recognizable to audiences world-wide.
“As always, our aim is to ignite a passion for opera in the hearts of our new opera-goers, and to keep the fire burning in the hearts of our returning audience members,” says Calgary Opera General Director & CEO, W.R. (Bob) McPhee. “We’re confident the 2008-2009 season will do just that.”
We open our season with a brand new production of a dramatic masterpiece by Charles Gounod, hailed as one of the best French operas of all time – Faust. First presented in Paris in 1859, Gounod’s classic tells the legendary story of the aged and bitter Dr. Faust, and the pact he makes with the devil in exchange for youth and earthly pleasure. Conducted by Jean-Marie Zeitouni (Frobisher 2007) with stage direction by award-winning Eda Holmes, who is making her opera debut with the production, Calgary Opera welcomes back Tenor Marc Hervieux (Frobisher 2007) as the tormented Faust, Soprano Laura Whalen (Frobisher 2007) as the much-desired Marguerite, Bass Baritone David Bedard (Magic Flute 2006) as Mephistopheles, and Baritone Joshua Hopkins (Magic Flute 2006) as Valentin. Faust is a new production designed by Scott Reid and Harry Frehner.
As the centerpiece of our 2008-2009 season, Calgary Opera is thrilled to present the world-renowned Tenor Richard Margison in the role of Bacchus, in the company’s first-ever presentation of Richard Strauss’s comedy Ariadne auf Naxos. First premiered in Stuttgart in 1912, this larger-than-life opera brings together characters from Greek mythology and the Italian Commedia dell’Arte to tell the story of Ariadne, the Greek mythological figure who has been abandoned by her lover on the island of Naxos. Joining Richard Margison, the star-studded cast includes the return of internationally acclaimed Sopranos Wendy Nielsen (Marriage of Figaro 2001) as Ariadne and Tracy Dahl (The Ballad of Baby Doe 2008) as the clever Zerbinetta, under the stage direction of Kelly Robinson (The Ballad of Baby Doe 2008). David Agler conducts (Dead Man Walking 2006).
Calgary Opera closes its season with Rossini’s popular hit The Barber of Seville, conducted by Robert Tweten under the stage direction of Rob Herriot (The Brothers Grimm 2007). Returning to Calgary Opera is Baritone Aaron St. Clair Nicholson (Romeo and Juliet 2003) as Figaro, Tenor John Tessier (Lakmé 2004) in the role of Almaviva, Mezzo-Soprano Krisztina Szabó (La Traviata 2003) as the beautiful Rosina, Bass Baritone Peter Strummer (Cinderella 1995) as Dr. Bartolo, and Bass Baritone Philip Cokorinos (Don Giovanni 1999) as Don Basilio.
Besides the regularly scheduled season, Calgary Opera runs the Emerging Artist Development Program, which provides a critical training ground for graduates of opera programs around the country, as they transition into their professional singing career. The 2008-2009 season welcomes the third group of students to this program, which involves intensive training, community productions, and opportunities for emerging artists to perform in a mainstage opera.
Subscription renewals for next season are now being processed. New subscribers can place orders in April, with seats being assigned in late June. Single performance tickets will go on sale in the fall of 2008.
Emerging Artist Development Program
Over the past two seasons Calgary Opera’s Emerging Artist Development Program has provided eight young singers a year with the opportunity to study and perform under a highly prestigious professional staff of teachers and performers. Calgary Opera is pleased to announce the 2008-2009 participants: Hayley Crittenden, Danielle Dudycha, Lauren Phillips, Alexis Stanhope, Robert Clark, and Stephen Baradell. 2007-2008 Emerging Artists Christopher Mayell and Benjamin Covey return for a second year of training.
Calgary Opera is grateful for support from the following funders and sponsors: Operating and Project Grants from: The Canada Council for the Arts, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Calgary Arts Development, the Calgary Foundation, the S.A. Opera Development Foundation, and Canadian Heritage; Community Outreach sponsor - EnCana; Emerging Artist Development Program sponsor - Enbridge; Season sponsor - Calgary Herald; Production sponsors - Nexen, Talisman Energy, and Crape Geomatics Corporation; Calgary Opera Chorus sponsor - Petro-Canada; Education supporters - Industrial Alliance Pacific, TELUS Calgary Community Board, RBC Financial Group, through RBC Foundation, Imperial Oil Foundation; Event sponsors - The Kahanoff Foundation, arriVa, Hotel Arts, and Scotiabank; Impresario Circle sponsors - Infuse Catering, The Wine Cellar South, Alberta Views, Blue Hydrangea floral boutique, and Coppeneur Chocolates; and Media sponsors - Swerve Magazine, Global Calgary, Pattison, Avenue Magazine, and the Calgary Radio Group.
“To Engage our Audience and Enhance our Community through the Magic of Opera.”
Since its inception, and especially in the past decade, Calgary Opera has made a name for itself as a company that is committed to the development of Canadian talent and the development of new opera works.
In July 2005, Calgary Opera moved to a new home - the Arrata Opera Centre - a 29,000 square foot facility in the historic Wesley United Church that brings together administration offices, rehearsal and education space, as well as props and wardrobe workshops. The company also returned to its performance venue, the Jubilee Auditorium, after it was closed from July 2004-September 2005 for major renovations.
At the beginning of the 2006-2007 season Calgary Opera recorded its eighth consecutive budget surplus, while, at the same time, its annual operating budget has increased from $1.9 million to $4.2 million since 1998. Calgary Opera has also seen substantial growth in its attendance with a subscription base close to 4,500 and total attendance reaching 94% capacity.
Over the past decade creating new works and building new productions has been a cornerstone of the company. By the end of the 2006-2007 season Calgary Opera will have presented three world premieres, two Canadian premieres, and many company premieres. Calgary Opera will have built four new productions, presented four works by living composers, and four works written in the 20th century. On the horizon, Calgary Opera will present two more new opera commissions over the next four seasons: Hannaraptor by Allan Gilliland and Val Brandt, and The Inventor, by Bramwell Tovey and John Murrell.
Calgary Opera’s outreach and education programs are helping the company connect with the community more than ever. Let’s Create an Opera continues to take the magic of opera into Calgary schools, giving children the chance to write and present their very own operas to Calgary audiences. The Opera for All program offers those ordinarily not able to come to experience live opera performances, and our For Students Only Dress Rehearsals provides thousands of students with hugely discounted tickets to mainstage productions.
Calgary Opera promotes young Canadian talent and is thrilled to have launched the Emerging Artist Development Program in 2006-2007. The most robust program of its kind in Western Canada, the program is geared at attracting some of this nation’s finest young performers to train within the context of a professional opera company and bridge the gap between the trained amateur and the professional singer.
On the mainstage, Calgary Opera produces a subscription season of three full-scale operas at the 2,400-seat Jubilee Auditorium complimented by a series of opera-related events and fundraisers.
Who Should Apply?
Calgary Opera’s Emerging Artist Development Program is designed for pre-professional singers at the Masters or post-graduate level who are Canadian citizens, have finished their initial training at a University or Conservatory, and are seeking further essential skills to enable them to establish a professional operatic singing career.
The program is structured in three Sessions consisting of 22 weeks and coordinated with the three productions during the Calgary Opera season – in 2007-2008, Rigoletto, The Ballad of Baby Doe, and Tosca.
The first eight-week Session [October-December] trains the Emerging Artists in movement, flexibility, period dance and movement, stage fighting, speech and acting concluding with a public presentation.
Instructors during the inaugural year included Anita Miotti who taught dance, body awareness, acting movement, flexibility and body/voice integration; Grant Reddick, who taught acting, text analysis, and speech centered around Shakespeare; and J.P. Fournier, who taught four weeks of stage fighting, tussle, and fencing.
The focus of the second Session [January-February] is on the practical realization of vocal and stage skills as the Emerging Artists are cast in a main stage production – in the inaugural year it was the world premiere of John Estacio and John Murrell’s Frobisher co-commissioned by Calgary Opera and The Banff Centre. During the 2007-2008 season the Emerging Artists will perform in the Canadian premiere of The Ballad of Baby Doe on Calgary Opera’s mainstage.
They will also receive career counseling in marketing, publicity presentation, effective audition practices and exposure to prospective agents and will prepare an audition CD and marketing package.
The third Session [March-April] will concentrate on an Opera in Schools Tour of Calgary and southern Alberta. In 2006-2007 the Emerging Artists toured Dean Burry’s The Brothers Grimm. In 2007-2008 they will tour a newly commissioned opera for young audiences, The Hannaraptor, by Allan Gilliland and Val Brandt.
Throughout the season other individual instruction and master class contacts are planned with visiting directors. The group of visiting directors during the inaugural season included Glynis Leyshon of the Vancouver Playhouse, Kelly Robinson, and David Gately, conductors Robert Dean, Jean-Marie Zeitoni, and David Beckwith, and performing soloists/teachers Kim Barber, Matthew Chellis, Margaret Lattimoor, and Brian McIntosh.
Call for Supernumeraries
Calgary Opera is currently seeking supernumeraries for productions in its 2007-2008 season.
Supernumeraries (or “Supers”) are non-singing roles that are an important part of each production. They take roles such as servants, soldiers, peasants, priests and aristocrats, and have an opportunity to work with a large group of talented artists and technicians, including principal singers, the Calgary Opera Chorus, stage managers, orchestra, conductors, and stage directors.
Supernumeraries who are chosen to be in the cast for a show are usually asked to come to rehearsals for the three or four weeks before the first performance takes place. Most of the rehearsals will be in the evenings, or on weekend afternoons.
If you would like to become a “Super” for our 2007-2008 season please contact:
Averil Cook, Executive Assistant
Calgary Opera
(403) 802-3402
acook@calgaryopera.com
Sunday Opera Brunch
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A delight for the senses! What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon than enjoying a delicious brunch and listening to sublime voices singing beautiful music? These exquisite events feature singers from the upcoming opera production.
Contact
by mail or in person:
Arrata Opera Centre
1315 - 7 Street SW
Calgary, AB
T2R 1A5
Office hours are Monday through Friday, 9am-5pm.
by phone:
(403) 262-7286
by fax:
(403) 263-5428
by email:
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