We’re pleased to welcome Michael Donovan as a masterclass leader for 2018
The Halifax Summer Opera Festival is delighted to announce that Michael Donovan, Associate Professor of Voice at Dalhousie University, will be giving a masterclass in vocal performance at the 2018 Festival. Michael is an educator, voice teacher, performer, composer and musicologist with wide ranging interests in the areas of vocal pedagogy, opera performance, composition and […]
A very modern Don Giovanni is the centrepiece of Eastern Canada’s largest opera festival
For Immediate Release June 25th, 2018 (Halifax, NS) – For the fourteenth summer over 90 people will descend on Halifax to rehearse and perform 12 live performances of fully-staged opera. This year the Halifax Summer Opera Festival includes four performances each of Mozart’s great tragicomic opera Don Giovanni, Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and a […]
Opera Ceilidh Kitchen Party, April 30, at the Good Robot Brewing Company
Join us for our first Opera Kitchen Party, and help us raise money to support scholarships for local singers to the 14th Annual Halifax Summer Opera Festival! Thanks to the generous support of the amazing folks at Good Robot Brewing and their Good Will Bot program, $1 from every pint of beer sold on Monday […]
Second round of applications invited for HSOF 2018! We need men and mezzos :)
We have a great range of roles still available for singers interested in spending four weeks in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada this summer! The Festival runs from July 14 to August 12, and features three MainStage productions: Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea and Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Unfortunately, as of this date, […]
We’ve started making offers for the 14th Halifax Summer Opera Festival!
We’d like to thank the over 150 singers who sang for Nina and David in person or for Nina by distance application. We started to make offers today. It’s an exciting time, but can be quite a slow process, depending on how many offers a singer is juggling. We have about 60 offers to make, […]
