2012 Opera Season Tours

Toronto, Canadian Opera Company
May 10-15, 2012

Enjoy five nights in Toronto at the beautiful Four Seasons Centre and three opera productions—featured performances include A Florentine Tragedy/Gianni Schicchi (with Metropolitan Opera audition-winner Simone Osborne), Semele, and The Tales of Hoffmann. The tour also includes a day excursion to Stratford and a matinee theatre performance.

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Opera In Santa Fe
August 2012

This is one of the Opera Guild's most popular tours with six nights in Santa Fe and four opera performances at the spectacular Santa Fe Opera House nestled in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Program details to be announced.

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New York Metropolitan Opera
October 2012

With so much to see and do in New York, this is always a favourite and features a six night stay and four opera performances at the Met. Program details to be announced.

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Career Development Grant — Production Professionals

The Vancouver Opera Guild will disburse a $5,000 Career Development Grant in June 2012. This Grant will be available to Canadian Citizens and those with Landed Immigrant status between the ages of 20 and 33 years. The deadline for the receipt of completed applications is April 16, 2012.

The purpose of the Grant is to help people involved with, or preparing for, a career in the production area of opera, to improve their skills or to work on a personal project related to opera. Candidates for the 2011 Grant must be pursuing a career in opera.

The 2011 Grant is not available for singers. Those involved in Production (stage management, directing, costumes, set design, etc.) may apply for the 2014 Grant in the Fall (November) of 2013.

Grant applications will be judged by a jury of three members of the operatic/artistic community on the following points:

• potential of the applicant
• merit of the project
• education/training or work-related experience

The Grant will be made available at the start of the successful candidate's project. The recipient must send a report on the project to the Vancouver Opera Guild not later than three months after its completion.

Further information and application forms, please contact:

• Mrs. R. Michael LePage
• 9531 Neill Place
• Richmond, BC
• V7E 5J6
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• Tel: (604) 274-2729

Metropolitan Opera Audition Winners

November 7, 2011 in Western Canada MONC Auditions

The Vancouver Opera Guild is proud to announce the five winners of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions held on Sunday, November 6, 2011 at the Vancouver Academy of Music Recital Hall.

The winners are:

• SYLVIA SZADOVSZKI — MEZZO SOPRANO
• NATALIE FAGNAN — SOPRANO
• CASSANDRA WARNER — MEZZO SOPRANO
• LEAH GISELLE FIELD — MEZZO SOPRANO
• TEIYA KASAHARA — SOPRANO

Thirty singers vied for the five opportunities to continue on to the Region Auditions in Seattle on January 22, 2012. The winners of that competition go on the National Semi-Finals in New York on March 11. The Grand Finals take place on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York on March 18.