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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Euridice (soprano) | Madelaine Battista | Brooke Mitchell |
| Public Opinion (mezzo) | Kristina Bernardo | Anna Moreau |
| Diana (soprano) | ||
| Cupid (soprano) | Emma MacNeil | Claire Hartlen |
| Minerva (soprano) | Megan Clark | |
| Venus (mezzo) | ||
| Juno (mezzo) | Megan Hayward | |
| Hebe (soprano) | Cassandra Goulbourne | Ashley Keenan |
| Jupiter (baritone) | ||
| Aristaeus/Pluto (tenor) | ||
| Orpheus (tenor) | ||
| John Styx (baritone) | ||
| Mars (baritone) | ||
| Mercury (tenor) |