SANDRA HORST
JOEL IVANY
CAMELLIA KOO
IAIN MACNEIL
Chorus Master
Director
Set & Costume Design Co-ordinator
Le Dancaïre
(Toronto, ON)
(Toronto, ON)
COC DEBUT Norma, 1998
COC DEBUT Assistant Director, La Bohème, 2009
RECENT The Marriage of Figaro (COC) La Traviata (COC) Pyramus and Thisbe with Lamento d’Arianna and Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (COC) Conductor, The Machine Stops and Paul Bunyan (UofT Opera)
RECENT Mozart’s Requiem, (Toronto Symphony Orchestra/TSO) Marilyn Forever (Adelaide Festival of Arts, Australia) Program Director, Opera (The Banff Centre) #UncleJohn (Ottawa International Chamber Festival)
UPCOMING Norma and Ariodante (COC)
UPCOMING A Little Too Cozy (Against the Grain Theatre) Dead Man Walking (Vancouver Opera) The Seven Deadly Sins (TSO)
(Toronto, ON)
COC DEBUT Set & Costume Designer, The Bremen Town Musicians (COC’s Glencore Ensemble Studio School Tour), 2014 RECENT Set Designer, Carmen (Edmonton Opera) Set & Costume Designer, Wormwood (Tarragon Theatre) Set & Costume Designer, Lady From the Sea (Shaw Festival)
Baritone (Brockville, ON)
COC DEBUT Commissioner, Madama Butterfly, 2014 RECENT Figaro, The Marriage of Figaro (COC Ensemble Studio performance) Marquis d’Obigny, La Traviata (COC) Dr. Bartolo, The Barber of Seville (COC Ensemble Studio performance) Fiorello, The Barber of Seville (COC)
CLÉMENTINE MARGAINE
Mezzo-soprano (Narbonne, France)
Carmen
COC DEBUT RECENT Carmen, Carmen (Berlin, Munich, Rome, Dallas, Washington, Naples) Charlotte, Werther (Teatro Colón) Dalila, Samson et Dalila (Deutsche Oper Berlin/DOB) Marguerite, Damnation de Faust (DOB)
UPCOMING Set & Costume Designer, The Rape of Lucretia (Banff Centre) Set & Costume Designer, Simon Boccanegra (Pacific Opera Victoria)
UPCOMING Tarquinius, The Rape of Lucretia (Banff Centre) Soloist, Songs of Travel (Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre)
UPCOMING Carmen, Carmen (Metropolitan Opera, Opera Australia and Opéra national de Paris) Sara, Roberto Devereux (Bayerische Staatsoper) Dulcinée, Don Quichotte (Lyric Opera of Chicago)
STEPHANIE MARRS
ZACHARY NELSON
SIMONE OSBORNE
DAVID POMEROY
ANITA RACHVELISHVILI
Stage Manager
Escamillo
Micaëla
Don José
Carmen
(Toronto, ON)
Baritone (Annapolis, MD, USA)
COC DEBUT Madama Butterfly, 2003
COC DEBUT Masetto, Don Giovanni, 2015
RECENT Assistant Stage Manager, Siegfried (COC) Stage Manager, La Traviata, Madama Butterfly and Hercules (COC) Stage Manager, Apocalypsis (Luminato Fesitval) Stage Manager, Panamania (Pan Am Games 2015 Arts and Culture Festival)
RECENT Escamillo, Carmen (Salzburger Landestheater and Palm Beach Opera) Figaro, The Barber of Seville (Sächsische Staatsoper/SS) Marcello, La Bohème (SS)
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UPCOMING Escamillo, Carmen (San Francisco Opera) Donner, Das Rheingold (Lyric Opera of Chicago)
CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2015/2016
Soprano (Vancouver, BC)
COC DEBUT Ilia, Idomeneo (Ensemble Studio performance), 2010 RECENT Gilda, Rigoletto (Vancouver Opera) Soloist, The Metropolitan Opera’s Rising Stars Concert Series (national tour) UPCOMING Marguerite Riel, Louis Riel (COC) Soloist, Mozart’s Exsultate jubilate and Barber’s Knoxville (Utah Symphony)
Tenor (St. John’s, NL)
Mezzo-soprano (Tbilisi, Georgia)
COC DEBUT Faust, Faust, 2007
COC DEBUT Carmen, Carmen, 2010
RECENT Paul, Die Tote Stadt (Calgary Opera and Oper Frankfurt) Arrigo, I vespri siciliani (Royal Danish Opera)
RECENT Marfa, Khovanshchina (Dutch National Opera) Carmen, Carmen (Metropolitan Opera; Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/ROH; and Teatro alla Scala/TAS) Amneris, Aida (TAS,Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro Regio di Torino)
UPCOMING Soloist, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 (Calgary Philharmonic) Soloist,Verdi’s Requiem (Vancouver Symphony) Calaf, Turandot (Edmonton and Calgary Opera) Soloist, Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass (Warsaw Philharmonic)
UPCOMING Amneris, Aida (Opéra national de Paris/ONP) Dalila, Samson et Dalila (ONP) Azucena, Il Trovatore (ROH)