Grand River Opera will current Mozart’s Idomeneo to launch their 2025/26 season. Performances happen from October 16 to 18 in Kitchener with an all-Canadian forged.
Grand River Opera was based in 2022, and held its first present in March 2023. The corporate, led by Inventive Director Jennifer Carter, is devoted to creating opera accessible, inclusive, and related to modern audiences.
Mozart’s Idomeneo
Mozart wrote Idomeneo, re di Creta ossia Ilia e Idamante (Idomeneus, King of Crete, or, Ilia and Idamante) as a fee with librettist Giambattista Varesco. The work premiered in January 1781 in Munich, Germany.
The story takes place in Crete, not lengthy after the tip of the Trojan Struggle. Ilia is the daughter of Priam, the not too long ago defeated King of Troy. After the warfare ended, Ilia was taken to Crete.
She has fallen in love with Prince Idamante, who’s the son of King Idomeneo, King of Crete, however hesitates, and actually rejects him at first. Electra, daughter of Greek king Agamemnon, nonetheless, is aware of the reality and is jealous.
When Idomeneo is caught in a storm at sea, he asks Neptune to spare his life, a deal he makes that has shattering penalties. Add a battle with a monster and the mercy of the gods to the combination on this story of putting up with love.
The Forged
- Idomeneo: Marcel Van Helden
- Ilia: Kathryn Rose Johnston
- Arbace: Melosa Wang
- Idamante: Mackenzie Spoltore
- Elettra: Jennifer Carter
- Excessive Priest: Autumn Wascher
Marcel Van Helden is an rising tenor. He’s a graduate of Western College with a Grasp’s diploma and Artist Diploma in vocal efficiency. Marcel additionally earned an undergraduate diploma in physics. He’s carried out with choirs and orchestras as a soloist, together with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Rose Orchestra, Puccini’s Missa di Gloria with Refrain Hamilton, and Handel’s Messiah in numerous productions. His operatic roles embrace Rodolfo in La Bohème, Peter Quint & Prologue in The Flip of the Screw, and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni.
Canadian soprano Kathryn Rose Johnston was born and grew up in Kingston, Ontario, and is at present based mostly in Toronto. She earned a Grasp of Music in Opera from the College of British Columbia, and a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Efficiency from the College of Toronto. Kathryn was a finalist within the Nationwide Auditions for the Atelier Lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal and the 2023 Nationwide Capital Opera Society Competitors, and was named a First Prize Winner within the American Worldwide Vocal Competitors in Cleveland, Ohio. She is a member and co-producer of the a cappella quartet the Fonitika Vocal Ensemble. She has carried out all kinds of roles, together with each conventional and modern repertoire.
London based mostly mezzo-soprano Melosa Wang is a current graduate of Western College with a specialty in music training. Certainly one of her passions is researching lesser identified composers, and together with their works in her performances. She strongly believes within the collaborative nature of music, and works with choirs and youth teams in London to encourage group engagement, and collective musicianship.
Musician and actress Mackenzie Spoltore is a graduate of Laurier College, the place she studied voice. The mezzo-soprano has carried out within the refrain of Carmen for Brott Opera; different roles embrace Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte (Lyric Opera Studio Weimar), Little Pink in Into the Woods, and Amy March in Little Ladies (each with Opera Laurier). She teaches voice on the Premier Faculty of the Arts in Waterloo, and likewise performs the trombone in her spare time.
Soprano Jennifer Carter is the Inventive Director of Grand River Opera. Along with roles in Grand River Opera productions of Flip of the Screw, Hansel & Gretel, and Zanetto, she has carried out with the Wagner in Vermont Competition, Dramatic Voices Berlin, Powerhouse Opera, Opera by Request, Opera Susquehanna, and the Colors of Music Competition in Barrie. Along with her efficiency work, she is the proprietor of Resound Voice Studio, a personal instructing studio.
Canadian soprano Autumn Wascher studied at Wilfrid Laurier College within the Bachelor of Music Vocal Efficiency program. They’ve carried out the roles of Antonia & Giulietta in The Tales of Hoffmann, Cendrillon in Cendrillon, and in 2019 sang the function of Micaela in Carmen with the KW Symphony at Centre within the Sq.. Autumn has additionally served as a choral scholar on the Knox Presbyterian Church.
The Manufacturing
Idomeneo will likely be on stage on the Registry Theatre in Kitchener October 16 to 18.
The manufacturing will likely be sung in Italian with English translation through projections, accompanied by piano, and the Grand River Opera Group Refrain. The inventive group consists of stage route by Bridget Ramzy, and musical route by Charmaine Fopoussi.
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