2007/8 Concert Season
October 13
November 24
December 15
January 19
February 16
April 26
Special Event!
March 29
Watch this space for upcoming special events as we near the start of our Season.
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When in doubt, sing loud! Robert Merrill
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back,
and instead of bleeding, he sings. Ed Gardner
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| Saturday March 29, 2008
Opera in Concert
Featuring soloists from
The Opera Project
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The Opera Project, founded by Canada's internationally known soprano, Heidi Klassen, provides a unique opportunity for Canadian singers. No other opera company exists solely to train and present emerging Canadian artists to the public, and to help bridge the gap between training and establishing a career. Sinfonia is proud to share the stage with these singers in a program of familiar overtures, arias, duos and other ensemble pieces by Mozart, Beethoven, Puccini, Strauss, and more!
This is Sinfonia's Annual Fundraiser, and we are always indebted to our loyal audience for their unflagging attendance and support. Sinfonia musicians will generously donate their musical services. Enjoy chamber music in the Centennial Theatre Lobby as you browse the many Silent Auction items. Thank you all for keeping the music alive and well, right here on the beautiful North Shore.
Season subscription does not include this special fundraising event.
Ticket Prices
| Adults | $50 |
| Seniors and Students | $40 |
The Opera Project
The Opera Project is an established professional company that originated in Winnipeg in 1997. In 1998 The Opera Project (TOP) was incorporated as a charitable organization to present singers with serious talent and ambition for the stage, an opportunity to engage professionally in principal roles with remuneration.
Having relocated to Vancouver, The Opera Project along with the company's Founder and Director, Heidi Klassen, is presenting it's face to local audiences.
The Opera the only opera company in Canada that exists for the sole purpose of training and presenting young Canadian artists to the public and bridging the gap between their training and establishing a career. In addition TOP invites established professionals from various artistic communities to work along-side these selected singers to hone their skills and provide opportunity for future professional engagements in a broader arena.
 | Heidi Klassen - The Opera Project
Soprano Heidi Klassen is firmly established as one of Canada's most versatile and exciting performers having sung with Canada's leading orchestras and opera companies in a career than spans over 20 years. Internationally Ms. Klassen has sung with the Dallas Symphony, the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra of Budapest, the BBC Scottish Orchestra and BBc Radio and toured extensively in Europe with live recordings at the Rudolfinum in Prague of Verdi's Requiem and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis.
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Jane Coop
Pianist Jane Coop is one of Canada's most prominent and distinguished artists. She has toured extensively throughout North America, Europe, and Asia as recital and concerto soloist. Major orchestras around the world, including the Royal Philharmonic of London, all the principal orchestras of Canada,
the Seattle and Oregon Symphonies, the Hong Kong Philharmonic and the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, have featured her as soloist in some forty concerti-from Mozart and Beethoven to Barber and Bartok. She has appeared as solo recitalist in many of the great halls of the world: Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall, Salle Gaveau and the Great Hall of St. Petersburg in Russia, performing an extensive and varied repertoire. Next season, she will give her twelfth performance with the Toronto Symphony, under Bramwell Tovey.
As a recording artist, Ms. Coop has received international praise for her fifteen releases for the Skylark, CBC and Centaur labels. She has recorded seven concertos as well as many of the great solo masterworks of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Brahms, Debussy and Ravel, and she has made landmark chamber recordings, such as her recent cycle of Beethoven's Piano and Violin Sonatas with violinist Andrew Dawes.
Ms. Coop is Professor of Music and Head of the Keyboard Division at the University of British Columbia in the winter, and is resident artist at the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, Blue Hill, Maine, in the summer, where she performs with members of the Juilliard Quartet and other eminent musicians. Ms. Coop's performance of Brahms in March, 2008 will mark her second collaboration with Sinfonia, following a brilliant rendition of Beethoven's Concerto #2 in 2004
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