Application form for 2013 Halifax Summer Opera Festival available soon

Marja and I are putting the final touches on the application process for the 2013 Halifax Summer Opera Festival and Workshop. We just have to confirm a couple of audition venues and we’ll be ready to go, I expect, by the end of the second week of September. Audition cities will once again include Montreal, […]

2013 Season announced for Halifax Summer Opera Workshop

The ninth season of HSOW will feature three shows again: Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (with full orchestra), Poulenc’s Dialogues des carmélites (with piano) and a double bill of Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins and Canadian composer Neil Weisensel’s City Workers in Love. Auditions for the workshop will take place in November, in Ontario, Quebec and […]

That’s all, folks!

I am writing this on my layover in the Trudeau airport in Montreal- surreal to think we closed the show yesterday and now I won’t be singing Helga or Iris again for the foreseeable future. Favourite things from this experience: MAIDEN BRAIDS. Seriously, I loved my Helga hair sooo muchhhhh that I might just start […]

Operation: Opera by Moira Donovan of The Coast

This weekend at the Sir James Dunn Theatre, experience the big sounds of opera classics, without all of the stereotypes These days, while the rest of campus is shrouded in mid-summer silence, the theatres and subterranean corridors of the Dalhousie Arts Centre are a hive of activity. In mid-July, 70 young musicians and directors from […]