The 2019 Halifax Summer Opera Festival Main Stage Operas
- The 15th Annual Halifax Summer Opera Festival will run from July 13 to August 11, 2019
We will rehearse and perform three shows:
Die Zauberflöte by W.A. Mozart (1786)
sung in German with English dialogue
conductor: Michael Donovan
stage directors: Jason Davis and David Mosey
collaborative pianist: Greg Myra
vocal coach: TBA
stage manager: TBA
lighting design: Sean Burke
costume design:
assistant costumer:
DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE by Mozart
Tamino Alexander Cappellazzo
Papageno Luke Noftall
Pamina Meghan Jamieson (NS) Lindsay Heyland (NS)
Queen of the Night Anastasia Pogorelova (Russia)
Sarastro Duncan Stenhouse
First Lady Skylar Cameron (NS)
Second Lady Corinne James (ON)
Third Lady Laura Curiale Natalie Vong
Monostatos Mehdi Mikaeilzadh
Papagena Grace Hakala Emily Wang
First Spirit Emilie James (ON) Olivia Charlebois-Brandvold
Second Spirit Julia Kennific
Third Spirit
Little Pamina Billie Kent (NS) Ava Frail (NS)
Speaker Steven DeWitt
Les contes d’Hoffmann (1957)
in French
conductor: Nicholas Gilmore
stage directors: Andrew Pelrine and Nina Scott-Stoddart
collaborative pianist: Giancarlo Scalia
vocal coach: TBA
stage manager: TBA
lighting design: Sean Burke
costumer: TBA
LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN by Offenbach
Hoffmann, a poet Koosha Khorramian (Iran/NS)
Nicklausse, his friend Mairi Demings (NS)
Olympia, a doll Loren Graziano Meggie MacKay
Antonia, a young girl Taryn Plater Olivia LaPointe
Giulietta, a courtesan Leslie Higgins Olivia Spahn-Vieria
Lindorff, Coppélius, Dapertutto, Dr Miracle Marko Hubert Chad Quigley
Andres, Chochenille, Frantz, Pitichinaccio, Spalanzani
Crespel, Antonia's father Duncan Stenhouse
Antonia's mother Megan Hayward
Alcina by G.F. Handel
sung in Italian
conductor: Markus Howard
stage director: Erin Bardua
collaborative harpsichordist: TBA
vocal coach: TBA
stage manager: TBA
lighting design: TBA
costumer: TBA
ALCINA by Handel
Alcina, a sorceress Jodie Miller Victoria Vass
Morgana, her sister Seven Kochkarian
Oberto, a boy Alyssa Hildebrand Emma Battel
Bradamante, Ruggiero's lover
Ruggiero Sean Jordan
Orontë, Morgana's lover tenor
Melisso, Ruggiero's tutor baritone or bass baritone