Opera By Request presents Carmen, with guest musical director Brahm Goldhammer, in concert with piano accompaniment. Monday, May 19th, 2014, 7:30 pm, at Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Road, Toronto. Tickets are purchased at the door. $20 general admission, $15 students and seniors.

Carmen – Deanna Pauletto
Don Jose – Taras Chmil
Micaela – Lisa Faieta
Escamillo – Diego Catala
Zuniga – Vladimir Tsyglian
Morales/El Dancairo – Ryan Downey
El Remendado – Charles Sy
Frasquita – Adanya Dunn
Mercedes – Beste Kalender

Pianist/Music director: Brahm Goldhammer

Opera by Request presents Gluck’s Orfeo, in concert with piano accompaniment, Sunday, June 1, 7:30 pm, College St. United Church, 452 College St. (corner of Bathurst). All tickets $20.00 Phone 416 455-2365 for reservations and information.

Orfeo…………Eugenia Dermentzis, mezzo-soprano
Eurydice……..Naomi Eberhard, soprano
Amor………….Sharon Tikiryan, soprano

The Annex Singers, Maria Case, director

William Shookhoff, music director and pianist

Opera by Request presents Saint-Saens’ Samson et Delilah, in concert with piano accompaniment, Friday, May 23, 7:30 pm, College St. United Church, 452 College St. (corner of Bathurst). All tickets $20. Phone 416 455-2365 for reservations and information.

Samson…………..Jason Lamont, tenor
Delilah……………Karen Bojti, mezzo-soprano
High Priest of Dagon….Marco Petracchi, baritone
Abimelech/Old Hebrew…..Henry Irwin, baritone
A Philistine………John Warden, bass-baritone

William Shookhoff, music director and pianist

Opera by Request presents Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, in concert with piano accompaniment, Friday, May 16, 7:30 pm, College St. United Church, 452 College St (corner of Bathurst). All tickets $20. Phone 416 455-2365 for reservations and information.

Lucia………………Katharine Dain, soprano
Edgardo………….Michael Ciufo, tenor
Enrico…………….Michael Robert-Broder, baritone
Raimondo……….Norman E. Brown, bass-baritone
Normanno/Arturo……Francis Domingue, tneor
Alice………………Jenny Cohen, mezzo-soprano

William Shookhoff, music director and pianist

A recital featuring some of the most loved works by Richard Strauss, including Allerseelen, Morgen, and Zueignung, a movement from his violin sonata, and the Vier Letzte Lieder. A concert chat on Richard Strauss will be given by Iain Scott.

Arts and Letters Club, 14 Elm St. Toronto, 7:30 pm

Allison Cecilia Arends, Soprano
Alex Toskov, violinist
William Shookhoff, pianist

Admission is free.

Opera by Request presents Verdi’s Il Trovatore, in concert with piano accompaniment, Saturday, April 26, 7:30 pm, College St. United Church, 452 College St. (corner of Bathurst). All tickets $20.00. Phone 416 455-2365 for reservations and information.

Manrico………………..Paul Williamson, tenor
Leonora………………..Olga Tylman, soprano
Count di Luna…………Wayne Line, baritone
Azucena………………..Julia Clarke, mezzo-soprano
Ferrando……………….Domenico Sanfilippo, bass-baritone
Inez………………………Hanna Yakautsova, mezzo-soprano
Ruiz………………………William Parker, tenor

William Shookhoff, pianist and music director