Opera
DalOperaĚýoffers a rare undergraduate experience in opera education. As a voice student, in each year of your degree you'll participate in a fully staged production with costumes, sets, lighting and with live music. Under the guidance of faculty, you'll work with their fellow students and future contemporaries from the Costume Studies and Stage Design programs for a fully immersive experience.
DalOpera's Cinderella & The Box Office
Nov. 28-30 | 7:30pm
Dec. 1 | 2:00pm
Sir James Dunn Theatre
What happens to Cinderella after midnight? Come find out but first make a stop at the Box Office!Ěý
From a customer service nightmare at a box office to what happens to Cinderella before and after the stroke of midnight, DalOpera’s 2024 Fall stage production is poised to draw you into these two powerful stories both composed by women.ĚýLet the students at DalOpera transport you into these two romantic, clever, comical and magical worlds.ĚýThe production also utilizes the talents of our costume studies and stage design and technical theatre students in a truly collaborative creation.
Set in and inspired by the Canadian Opera Company ticket sales box office, Canadian composer Bekah Simm’s The Box Office uses musical gestures of chromaticism and tritone leaps to highlight the uneasiness of a conversation between a very tired box office attendant and her insufferable customer. This short but poignant conversation is humorously and cleverly depicted in Canadian Michael Albano’s libretto.
Pauline Viardot’s setting of Cendrillon (Cinderella) is true to the original fairy tale; however Viardot takes a more lighthearted approach to the tale compared to other operatic versions of this enchanting story. Keen ears might hear references to themes used in Rossini’s and Massenet’s versions.
DalOpera is led by Cindy Townsend with the wonderful Tara Scott at the piano. We are thrilled to have Robyn Cathcart as our stage director, Diego Cavedon as our costume designer, and Katrin Whitehead as our set designer!ĚýĚý
As a tenor, voice teacher, director, clinician and academic, director Mr. Cathcart is a multi-faceted, dynamic and in-demand artist whose forty-three year career spans the worlds of opera, musical theatre, jazz, pop, concert performance, commercial performance and recording. With over 240 productions, concerts and recital appearances to his credit, he has resided as a member of the Voice Faculty at the Victoria Conservatory of Music, Victoria, BC. Additional tenures in the west have included being Co-Director of the renowned Opera Studio at the VCM, and the Artistic Director of Triple Threat Musical Theatre. He is also the Founding Artistic Director of Enter Left Productions, and has served as Associate Director of the historic Savoy Theatre in Glace Bay, NS.
In September of 2024, Mr. Cathcart joined the Voice Faculty at The Fountain School of Performing Arts, ±«Óătv University. He also serves as a Board Member for Opera Nova Scotia.Ěý
Mr. Cathcart is the Owner / Operator of "Sing: The Voice Studio of Robyn Cathcart,” the Music Director of “The Alara Vocal Ensemble,” and was awarded a Cape Breton Vitality Award for his contributions and leadership in the Arts & Culture Sector of Cape Breton Island. Mr. Cathcart has also been nominated as one of the area's top entertainers by The Cape Breton Post.Ěý
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DalOpera's Northern Lights and Opera Bites!
April 1, 2025
7:30pm
Joseph Strug Concert Hall
DalOpera presents scenes from Micheal Rose’s A Northern Lights Dream, as well as other delectable bites from Mozart’s TheĚýImpresario.
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