Tenors and Baritones needed for the Yorkshire Opera Workshop
The Yorkshire Opera Workshop is still in need of tenors, baritones, and basses for their 2014 season. For their 2nd season, the Yorkshire Opera Workshop (Halifax Summer Opera Festival’s sister program in the UK) is producing Gilbert & Sullivan’s Iolanthe. Iolanthe is one of Gilbert & Sullivan’s best operettas. Full of political humour and satire, this […]
Welcome Allison Grant, our stage director for Giulio Cesare!
Sadly, stage director Joel Ivany will not be able to join us for our 2014 production of Handel’s Giulio Cesare. However we’re very we’re very happy to welcome the awesome Allison Grant to the team! Allison comes from a background as a choreographer, and has directed and/or choreographed for both opera and theatre. Recent directing credits include Roméo […]
Halifax Summer Opera Festival announces Scenes Program
I’m working my way through our offers to folks who auditioned for us both in person and by distance applications, and as usual I’m overwhelmed by the quality of the applicants. I wish I had roles for everyone who has applied! While talking about this situation with Memorial University of Newfoundland professor Caroline Schiller, […]
Auditions today in New York City!
First day of auditions for the 2014 Halifax Summer Opera Festival and Yorkshire Opera Workshops and here I am in New York City 🙂 Auditions will be at OPERA America’s National Opera Center at 330 Seventh Avenue, on the 7th Floor. We’ll be in Studio 710. If you wish to sing for me today, there […]
HSOF Audition venue confirmed for Evanston, IL on Friday November 1
For the first time the Halifax Summer Opera Festival and the Yorkshire Opera Workshop will be auditioning in Evanston, IL on Friday November 1, at Music Institute of Chicago’s Evanston East Campus at 1490 Chicago Avenue at Grove Street in downtown Evanston from 4 to 7 pm. One audition (and one $25 application fee) covers your application […]
