Opera by Request presents Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, in concert with piano accompaniment, Friday, June 19, 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.

Figaro…………………..Gene Wu, baritone
Susanna………………..Amanda Pereira, soprano
Count Almaviva……..Henry Irwin, baritone
Countess Almaviva…Hannah Coleman, soprano
Cherubino…………….Carla-Grace Calaguari, mezzo-soprano
Marzellina…………….Jacqueline McIntyre, soprano
Bartolo…………………Lawrence Shirkie, baritone
Don Curzio/Basilio…Ilya Cerebrianik, tenor
Barbarina……………..Samantha Weaver, soprano
Antonio………………..Lawrence Wraith, baritone

William Shookhoff, pianist and music director

Opera by Request presents Mozart’s Idomeneo, Saturday, May 23, 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.

Idomeneo………….Avery Krisman, tenor
Ilia…………………….Hannah Coleman, soprano
Idamante……………Stephanie Code, mezzo-soprano
Elektra……………….Brigitte Bogar, soprano
Arbace……………….Oliver Dawson, tenor
Gran Sacerdote…………Francis Domingue (tenor)
Voice from heaven…TBA

The Annex Singers, Maria Case, director
William Shookhoff, pianist and music director

Opera by Request presents Verdi’s Luisa Miller, in concert with piano accompaniment, Friday, May 15, 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.

Luisa……………Naomi Eberhard, soprano
Miller…………..John Conlon, baritone
Rodolfo……….Paul Williamson, tenor
Walter…………Andrew Tees, baritone
Wurm………….Steven Henrikson, baritone
Federica………Catherine Carew, mezzo-soprano
Laura…………..Jennifer Routhier, mezzo-soprano
a villager………Will Ford, tenor

William Shookhoff, pianist and music director

Opera by Request presents Thomas’s Hamlet, in concert with piano accompaniment, Saturday, May 9, 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.

Hamlet……………..Simon Chaussé, baritone
Ophelie…………….Vania Lizbeth Chan, soprano
Claudius……………Domenico Sanfilippo. bass-baritone
Gertrude…………..Erica Iris, mezzo-soprano
Laertes, Marcellus, Gravedigger…..Sean Catheroy, tenor
Horatio, Gravedigger……….Peter Bass, baritone
Spectre, Polonius……………George Ossipov, bass-baritone

William Shookhoff, pianist and music director

Opera by Request presents Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites, in concert with piano accompaniment, Saturday, April 18, 7:30 pm, College St. United Church, 452 College St (at Bathurst). All tickets $20. Phone 416 455-2365 for reservations and information.

Blanche de la Force……………………Caroline Dery, soprano
Sister Constanze………………………..Lindsay McIntyre, soprano
Prioress/Mother Jeanne/Sr. Mathilde…Maude Paradis, mezzo-soprano
Mother Marie……………………………Jennifer Routhier, mezzo-soprano
New Prioress…………………………….Jaclyn Grossman, soprano
Chevalier de la Force/Officer…………..Michael McLean, tenor
Marquis de la Force……………………Andrey Andreychik, baritone
Chaplain…………………………………..Oliver Dawson, tenor
Thierry/Javelinot/Officer…………….Lawrence Shirkie, baritone

William Shookhoff, music director/pianist

Opera by Request hosts the Ontario Opera Collaborative in Puccini’s La Bohème, Sunday, March 15, 3:00 pm, at College St. United Church, 452 College St., corner of Bathurst. Phone 416 455-2365 for additional information.

Mimi………………………Irmgard Hechler, soprano
Rodolfo………………….Christopher Oliviera, tenor
Marcello…………………Thomas Franzky, baritone
Musetta…………………Misty Banyard, soprano
Schaunard………………Kyle Merrithew, baritone
Colline……………………Dave Shipley, bass-baritone
Benoit/Alcindoro……..Norman E. Brown, baritone

pianist/music director: Tania Granata