An operatic Talent Trust reunion in La finta giardiniera on May 25 and 26

On May 25 and 26 at the Sir James Dunn Theatre in Halifax, Opera Nova Scotia presents La finta giardiniera, a story Mozart set to music for Munich at the age of 18. 

The cast of seven soloists, directed by David Overton, features four Talent Trust scholarship recipients. 

     

• Top left: Lindsay Connolly as Cavalier Ramiro 
  (Portia White Award 2015)
• Top right: Marcel d'Entremont as Don Anchise 
   (Portia White Award 2013) 
• Bottom left: Jennifer Farrell as Arminda
  (Portia White Award 1999) 
• Bottom right: Suzanne Rigden as Serpetta
  (Portia White Award 2007)

The title La finta giardiniera roughly translates into ‘the would-be, or supposed, (finta) gardener/gardener’s, girl (giardiniera)’, and we’re told a more nuanced translation contains spoilers.

The work is multifaceted, with shades of Shakespeare’s All’s Well that Ends Well and Much Ado About Nothing. It will be presented fully staged with orchestra: arias in Italian, narrative in English.

The performance begins at 7:00 p.m. on both evenings. 

For more information (and spoilers), visit the La finta giardiniera Facebook event page. 

For tickets, contact the Dalhousie Arts Centre box office.

Cecilia Concerts presents Suzie LeBlanc, soprano in Le Jongleur de Notre-Dameon April 9, 2017 at 2 p.m. in Halifax

Cecilia Concerts presents

April 9, 2017 – 2:00PM

Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame
Suzie LeBlanc, Soprano

Suzie LeBlanc, Soprano; with Opera Nova Scotia Chorus and Musicians under the direction of Dr. Walter H. Kemp

Highlights from Massenet’s opera, presented in concert opera format, features Suzie LeBlanc in the male title role of Jean. Based on medieval Miracle plays, it is a quaint mixture of the purely mundane with the supernatural.

Presenting Partner

Concert Location
Lilian Piercey Concert Hall
Maritime Conservatory of the Performing Arts
6199 Chebucto Road
Halifax, Nova Scotia

For more information please go to Cecilia Concerts' website: 

https://www.ceciliaconcerts.ca/product/april-9-2017-200pm-le-jongleur-de-notre-dame-suzie-leblanc-soprano-opera-nova-scotia-chorus-musicians/

Suzanne Rigden, soprano home for Opera Nova Scotia Recital on Friday, November 6, 2015

Suzanne Rigden, one of the brightest new singing stars on the Canadian opera scene, will return to her native HRM to offer the Opera Nova Scotia Distinguished Artist Recital, 

Friday, November 6, 7:30 p.m., Lilian Piercey Concert Hall, Maritime Conservatory for the Performing Arts in Halifax.

The brilliant and vivacious young soprano will sing a program of lyric concert repertoire and virtuoso operatic solos. A special highlight will be Zerbinetta’s Aria from Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, perhaps the most challenging feat in opera. Her pianist will be Tara Scott.

Suzanne Rigden is a NSTT scholarship recipient and the winner of the 2007 NSTT Portia White Award

The Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts,     

6199 Chebucto Road, Halifax

http://www.nsopera.org/

Tickets available at the door or through Opera NS Office 902-425-8586

General Admission $35.00 (incl. HST and $10 tax receipt) Students $5.00