The 2021 Halifax Summer Opera Festival
- The 16th Annual Halifax Summer Opera Festival will run from July 24 to August 15, 2021
Performance dates subject to change.
We will rehearse and perform one show:
Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach and Bertolt Brecht (1858/1874)
sung in English with English dialogue
music director: Giancarlo Scalia
stage directors: Andrew Pelrine and David Mosey
stage manager: Kevin Dacey
vocal coach: Maureen Batt
costume design: Nina Scott-Stoddart
Character | ||
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Euridice (soprano) | Madelaine Battista | Brooke Mitchell |
Public Opinion (mezzo) | Kristina Bernardo | Anna Moreau |
Diana (soprano) | ||
Cupid (soprano) | ||
Minerva (soprano) | Megan Clark | |
Venus (mezzo) | ||
Juno (mezzo) | ||
Hebe (soprano) | Cassandra Goulbourne | |
Jupiter (baritone) | ||
Aristaeus/Pluto (tenor) | ||
Orpheus (tenor) | ||
John Styx (baritone) | ||
Mars (baritone) | ||
Mercury (tenor) |