Tag Archives: Opera Atelier

ANNA-JULIA DAVID: SOPRANO HAS “A DREAM COME TRUE” AS SHE DEBUTS WITH OPERA ATELIER AS AMOUR IN GLUCK’S ORPHEUS AND EURIDYCE – OCTOBER 26 TO NOVEMBER 1 AT TORONTO’S ELGIN THEATRE

Posted on October 18, 2023 by strecker

JAMES STRECKER: In what specific ways is preparation for your upcoming Amour in Orpheus and Eurydice a fairly easy process and in what ways is it difficult? Why is this so? ANNA-JULIA DAVID: The role of Amour is quite short and … Continue reading →

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MARSHALL PYNKOSKI: OPERA ATELIER’S CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR DISCUSSES HANDEL’S THE RESURRECTION DUE AT KOERNER HALL ON APRIL 6, 8, & 9…… A REVIEWER INTERVIEWS PEOPLE IN THE ARTS

Posted on March 16, 2023 by strecker

JAMES STRECKER: Your production of The Resurrection was already presented digitally in 2021, so what reasons have you for recommending the upcoming live performance? MARSHALL PYNKOSKI: In the broadest sense, we believe there is no comparison between a film performance … Continue reading →

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MARSHALL PYNKOSKI, FOUNDING CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF OPERA ATELIER, ON THE COMPANY’S RETURN TO THE ELGIN THEATRE WITH PURCELL’S DIDO AND AENEAS, “THE GREATEST OPERA WRITTEN IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE”….. A REVIEWER INTERVIEWS PEOPLE IN THE ARTS

Posted on October 6, 2022 by strecker

JAMES STRECKER: You have told us that Dido and Aeneas is “Opera Atelier’s most internationally-acclaimed production” and I’d love to know more. First, which of the international venues and audiences provided you with especially memorable experiences, ones that still remain … Continue reading →

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MIREILLE ASSELIN: ZERLINA IN OPERA ATELIER’S DON GIOVANNI (OCTOBER 31 – NOVEMBER 9) EXPLAINS : “ZERLINA CAN BE FLIRTATIOUS, SHE CAN BE DEFIANT, SHE CAN BE SEXY, SHE CAN BE GENUINE AND SWEET… SHE HAS STRONG FEELINGS, SHE HATES BEING TOLD WHAT TO DO, SHE FEELS LIKE SHE DESERVES A GOOD LIFE AND IS WILLING TO BEND CERTAIN SCRUPLES TO GET THERE.”…. WHAT’S HAPPENING IN MY CREATIVE LIFE?

Posted on October 29, 2019 by strecker

JAMES STRECKER: This fall you are singing the character of Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni for Opera Atelier after doing the role in Paris not long before. You have said that Zerlina is one of your favourite roles, so first … Continue reading →

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DOUGLAS WILLIAMS: BASS-BARITONE, NEPTUNE IN MOZART’S IDOMENEO WITH OPERA ATELIER APRIL 4-13, AND THEN NICK SHADOW IN STRAVINSKY’S “THE RAKE’S PROGRESS,” WITH THE MUNICH PHILHARMONIC CONDUCTED BY BARBARA HANNIGAN, EXPLAINS: “WHETHER OR NOT YOU’RE A SINGER, YOUR VOICE IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST WAYS THAT YOU PROJECT YOUR SOUL INTO THE WORLD.”…A REVIEWER’S INTERVIEW WITH PEOPLE IN THE ARTS

Posted on April 2, 2019 by strecker

  Photo by Juan Camilo Roa Photo by Florian Grey JAMES STRECKER: Please tell us about one or more projects that you have been working on or have recently completed. Why exactly do they matter to you and why should … Continue reading →

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MIREILLE ASSELIN: SOPRANO FEATURED AT ROM ON FEBRUARY 21 EXPLAINS, “I AM VERY MUCH LOOKING FORWARD TO REVISITING ANGEL SPEAKS WITH OPERA ATELIER AND TAFELMUSIK…. A PROJECT UNLIKE ANY OTHER I’VE PARTICIPATED IN – PART RECITAL, PART DRAMATIC CANTATA, PART DANCE – AND ME NOT ONLY A PERFORMER BUT ALSO A COLLABORATOR…IT’S A FASCINATING, FORMAT-BENDING HOUR OF MUSICAL THEATRE.

Posted on February 15, 2019 by strecker

Photo: Bruce Zinger JAMES STRECKER: Please tell us about one or more projects that you have been working on or have recently completed. Why exactly do they matter to you and why should they matter to us? MIREILLE ASSELIN: It’s … Continue reading →

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ISAIAH BELL: TENOR CURRENTLY IN MONTEVERDI’S RETURN OF ULYSSES (OPERA ATELIER), OCTOBER 2018 IN RUFUS WAINWRIGHT’S HADRIAN (COC), AND LATER IN HIS OWN CREATION THE BOOK OF MY SHAMES (TAPESTRY OPERA), DECLARES “ALTHOUGH THE INTERNET MAY HAVE SHORTENED OUR ATTENTION SPANS, I DON’T BELIEVE IT HAS DIMINISHED OUR BASIC DESIRE FOR QUALITY COMMUNICATION… THINGS THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY OBSCURED BEHIND VEILS OF HIGH CULTURE CAN (NOW) BE SEEN UP CLOSE” … A REVIEWER’S INTERVIEW WITH PEOPLE IN THE ARTS

Posted on April 16, 2018 by strecker

JAMES STRECKER: If you were asked for 50 words for an encyclopedia to summarize what you do, or have done, in the arts, what would you say? ISAIAH BELL: I’m a tenor working in the Classical tradition. Currently I sing … Continue reading →

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MARSHALL PYNKOSKI: OPERA ATELIER’S THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO RUNS OCT. 26-NOV. 4, 2017 AND ITS CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND FOUNDER EXPLAINS “FIGARO IS A PERFECT OPERA – IT NEVER PALES. IT IS A PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE TO INTERPRET THIS POIGNANT COMIC MASTERPIECE. EVERY TIME YOU PRODUCE FIGARO IT IMPACTS YOUR LIFE IN A PROFOUND WAY”…….A REVIEWER’S INTERVIEW WITH PEOPLE IN THE ARTS

Posted on October 16, 2017 by strecker

Marshall Pynkoski & Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg JAMES STRECKER: 1 If you were asked for 50 words for an encyclopedia to summarize what you do, or have done, in the arts, what would you say? MARSHALL PYNKOSKI: I’ve spent a lifetime … Continue reading →

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OPERA ATELIER: LA CLEMENZA DI TITO

Posted on April 27, 2011 by strecker

In Opera Atelier’s production of Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito, now at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto, Measha Brueggergosman’s Vitellia is an immediate thrilling creation. She is dynamic, eruptive, self-indulgent, confrontational, full of demons urging her on, and quite at … Continue reading →

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