Biographies

ISAIAH BELL COUNT ALMAVIVA Victoria, BC VO DÉBUT RECENT APPEARANCES: Rufus Wainwright’s Hadrian at the Canadian Opera Company; Britten’s Curlew River with the Mark Morris Dance Group; Isaiah Bell’s The Book of My Shames with Tapestry Opera; Britten’s War Requiem with the National Arts Centre Orchestra; George Benjamin’s Written on Skin with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS: Paul Moravec’s A Nation of Others at Carnegie Hall; Handel’s The Resurrection with Opera Atelier www.isaiahbell.com

COLLETTE BERG ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER West Vancouver, BC LAST VO APPEARANCE: Assistant Stage Manager for Faust, 2019 RECENT APPEARANCES: Stage Manager for American Idiot with URP Event Production; Stage Manager for Disney’s Newsies with Theatre Under the Stars; Assistant Stage Manager for The Merry Widow with Vancouver Opera; Stage Manager for Nigredo Hotel with City Opera Vancouver; Stage Manager for 42nd Street with Theatre Under the Stars; Assistant Stage Manager for Eugene Onegin with Vancouver Opera UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS: Assistant Stage Manager for Another Brick in the Wall: The Opera with Vancouver Opera; Stage Manager for Hello Dolly with Theatre Under the Stars www.urp.ca

NATHAN BROCK CONDUCTOR Toronto, ON VO DÉBUT RECENT APPEARANCES: The Nutcracker with National Ballet of Canada; Giselle with Kungliga Operan Royal Swedish Opera House; Onegin and La Belle Helene with Hamburgische Staatsoper UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS: Bound with Against the Grain Theatre world premiere; L’Elisir d’Amore with Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden; Alice with National Ballet of Japan Tokyo; La Traviata with Kungliga with Operan Royal Swedish Opera House www.nathanbrock.ca

TINA CHANG RÉPÉTITEUR Vancouver, BC LAST VO APPEARANCE: Répétiteur for Faust, 2019 RECENT APPEARANCES: Répétiteur for Weinberg The Passenger with UBC Opera; Pianist for Christmas with Chor Leoni: Angels Dance; Répétiteur for Vivaldi Dorilla in Tempe, and Stanford The Veiled Prophet at Wexford Festival Opera; Coach for Britten A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bizet/Brook La Tragédie de Carmen, Sondheim Company at Hawaii Performing Arts Festival UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS: Répétiteur for Bilodeau Another Brick in the Wall: The Opera with Vancouver Opera; Recital with Elaina Moreau (former Yulanda M. Faris Young Artist)

NICHOLAS BORG FIORELLO London, ON LAST VO APPEARANCE: Baron Douphol in La Traviata, 2019 RECENT APPEARANCES: Action in West Side Story in Concert with Windsor Symphony Orchestra; Figaro in I due Figaro with Voicebox: Opera in Concert, Toronto; Pangloss in Candide with Toronto Operetta Theatre UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS: Another Brick in the Wall: The Opera with Vancouver Opera: White Rabbit, Caterpillar, Frog, and Chorus in The Garden of Alice with Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program, Vancouver Opera Member of the Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program www.nicholasborgbaritone.com

JULIE BOULIANNE ROSINA Dolbeau-Mistassini, QC LAST VO APPEARANCE: Die Fledermaus, 2015 RECENT APPEARANCES: Siebel, Faust, Royal Opera House at Covent Garden; Robin-Luron, Le Roi Carotte with Opera de Lyon; Marguerite, Damnation de Faust, Glyndebourne Festival; Marie, L’Enfance du Christ, Halle, Proms, Royal Albert Hall; Mass in C minor, Orchestre Metropolitain, Montreal UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS: Mignon, Mignon, Opern Frankfurt; Oktavian, Rosenkavalier, La Monnaie de Munt, Brussels; Durufle’s Requiem with Los Angeles Philharmonic and Violons du Roy www.julieboulianne.ca

ASHLIE CORCORAN STAGE DIRECTOR White Rock, BC LAST VO APPEARANCE: Assistant Director for The Barber of Seville, 2012 RECENT APPEARANCES: Die Zauberflote by W.A.Mozart with Canadian Opera Company; Electric Messiah by G.F. Handel with Soundstreams Canada; The Sound of Music with the Arts Club Theatre Company UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS: Me and My Girl with Shaw Festival Theatre Ashlie Corcoran is the Artistic Director of the Arts Club Theatre Company www.ashliecorcoran.com

Isaiah Bell’s appearance sponsored by Dr. Beverley Tamboline

Nicholas Borg’s appearance sponsored by Pat Charles

Julie Boulianne’s appearance sponsored by Shirley Barnett

Nathan Brock's appearance sponsored by Dr. Heather F. Clarke

Ashlie Corcoran’s appearance sponsored by a donor who prefers to remain anonymous

LESLIE DALA ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR/ CHORUS DIRECTOR Toronto, ON LAST VO APPEARANCE: Chorus Director and Cover Conductor for La Traviata, 2019 RECENT APPEARANCES: The Nutcracker with Goh Ballet; Brahms Requiem, Arvo Part Berliner Messe, Handel’s Messiah with Vancouver Bach Choir; The River of Light; World premiere with Vancouver Bach Choir and Vancouver Opera Orchestra UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS: Rhapsody in Blue, Piano Soloist with the West Coast Symphony; Resounding Joy: Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with Vancouver Bach Choir and VAMSO; Another Brick in the Wall: the Opera with Vancouver Opera Program Director for the Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program www.lesliedala.com

TAEHYUN JUN DON BASILIO South Korea, Seoul VO DÉBUT RECENT APPEARANCES: Méphistophélès, Faust, Seoul Metropolitan Opera at the Sejong Culture Center; Fasolt, Das Rheingold, Staatstheater Nürnberg at the Nürnberger Opernhaus; Gesler, Guillaume Tell, Korea National Opera at the Opera House in Seoul Arts Center UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS: Escamillo, Carmen, Sunny Opera Ensemble at the Woojin Culture Theater; Dulcamara, L’elisir d’amore, Opera Nunc Mission at the Kwanglim Arts Center; Kisa Choi, Red Pants (World premiere), Korea National Opera at the National Theater of Korea www.facebook.com/taehyun.jun.58

CARMEN GARCIA MAKE-UP DESIGNER Valencia, Spain LAST VO APPEARANCE: Make-up Designer for La Traviata, 2019 RECENT APPEARANCES: Make-up Designer for Faust, La Bohème, and The Merry Widow for Vancouver Opera; Make-up Designer for Don Giovanni, Die Zauberflöte, and Silent Night for UBC Opera UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS: Make-up Designer for Another Brick in the Wall: the Opera with Vancouver Opera; Make-up for Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Pasazerka and Il viaggio a Reims with UBC Opera

THOMAS GOERZ DOCTOR BARTOLO Kitchener, ON LAST VO APPEARANCE: Dead Man Walking, 2017 RECENT APPEARANCES: Simone in Gianni Schicchi with Pacific Opera Victoria; Lord Rochefort in Anna Bolena with the Canadian Opera Company; Owen Hart in Dead Man Walking with Vancouver Opera; Lodovico in Otello with Vancouver Opera; The Orest Cover in Elektra with the Canadian Opera Company UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS: Starek in Jenufa with Opéra de Montréal; Field Marshall Haig in OURS by Estacio at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa

MICHELLE HARRISON ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Vancouver, BC LAST VO APPEARANCE: Assistant Stage Manager for La Traviata, 2019 RECENT APPEARANCES: Assistant Stage Manager for It’s a Wonderful Life with Patrick Street Productions; Assistant Stage Manager for La Cenerentola and La Bohème with Vancouver Opera; Stage Manager for The Barber of Seville with Burnaby Lyric Opera UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS: Assistant Stage Manager for Another Brick in the Wall: The Opera with Vancouver Opera

KEN MACDONALD SET DESIGNER Vancouver, BC LAST VO APPEARANCE: The Overcoat–A Musical Tailoring, 2018 RECENT APPEARANCES: Newsies – Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.); This London Life – Grand Theatre, London, ON; A Thousand Splendid Suns ACT (San Francisco), Theatre Calgary, Arts Club, Old Globe (San Diego), Grand Theatre, Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.) UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS: Flight – Pacific Opera Victoria, A Thousand Splendid Suns – Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.); A Thousand Splendid Suns – Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre; FrankensteinRevisited – Stratford Festival Gemini Award for Outstanding Production Design, The Overcoat (CBC); four Dora Mavor Moore Awards, a Betty Mitchell Award, seventeen Jessie Richardson Awards and the San Diego Critics Award www.kenandmorris.com

IRINA MEDVEDEVA UNDERSTUDY ROSINA Thunder Bay, ON, Born in Russia LAST VO APPEARANCE: Annina in La Traviata, 2019

RECENT APPEARANCES: Musetta (cover) in La bohème with Brott Opera, Hamilton; Norina in Don Pasquale with Stratford Summer Music Festival; Vixen in Cunning Little Vixen with Opera Nuova, Edmonton UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS: Mere (understudy) in Another Brick in the Wall: The Opera with Vancouver Opera; Alice in The Garden of Alice with Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program, Vancouver Opera 1st place winner—Michigan Comic Opera Guild Competition; Artist Diploma, The Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music Member of the Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program www.irinamedvedeva.com

Leslie Dala’s appearance sponsored by Signe Jurcic

Thomas Goerz’s appearance sponsored by The Mary & Gordon Christopher Family Foundation

Taehyun Jun’s appearance sponsored by Gillian and Russell Smith

Irina Medvedeva’s appearance sponsored by Mike & Kathy Gallagher

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PARVIN MIRHADY HEAD OF COSTUMES & COSTUME DESIGN CONSULTANT Tehran, Iran LAST VO APPEARANCE: Costume Design Consultant for La Traviata, 2019 RECENT APPEARANCES: Costume Design Consultant for La Traviata, Faust, La Bohème, The Merry Widow, and Eugene Onegin with Vancouver Opera; Costume Design Consultant for Don Giovanni, The Passenger (Costume Designer), and Silent Night (Costume Consultant) with UBC Opera UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS: Costume Design Consultant for Another Brick in the Wall: The Opera with Vancouver Opera; Costume Design Consultant for Pasazerka and Il viaggio a Reims with UBC Opera

DAEVYD PEPPER UNDERSTUDY COUNT ALMAVIVA Bracebridge, ON LAST VO APPEARANCE: Gastone in La Traviata, 2019 RECENT APPEARANCES: Scaramuccio in Ariadne auf Naxos with Highlands Opera Studio, Haliburton; Jupiter in Semele with Toronto Lyrics Opera Centre, Toronto; Tenor in Chamberwerx with Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS: Another Brick in the Wall: The Opera with Vancouver Opera; Fish, Jack, and Chorus in The Garden of Alice with Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program, Vancouver Opera Member of the Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program www.daevydpepper.com

EDWARD NELSON FIGARO Santa Clarita, California VO DÉBUT RECENT APPEARANCES: Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande with Norwegian National Opera; Malatesta in Don Pasquale with San Francisco Opera; Dandini in La Cenerentola with Norwegian National Opera; Don Giovanni in Don Giovanni with Palm Beach Opera UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS: Vaughan Williams’ DonaNobis Pacem with Saint Louis Symphony; Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus with Opera Theatre of St. Louis www.columbia-artists.com/artists/ edward-nelson

GENA VAN OOSTEN BERTA, COVER ROSINA Stouffville, ON LAST VO APPEARANCE: Flora Bervoix, La Traviata, 2019 RECENT APPEARANCES: Tisbe in La Cenerentola (Rossini) with Vancouver Opera; Praskowia in The Merry Widow with Vancouver Opera; Eduige in Rodelinda with Opera in Concert, Toronto; Witch in Dido and Aeneas with Theatre of Early Music, Ottawa UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS: Vera Lynn in Another Brick in the Wall: The Opera (Bilodeau and Waters) with Vancouver Opera; Duchess, Dormouse, The Queen, and Chorus in The Garden of Alice with Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program Member of the Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program www.genavanoosten.com

KIMBERLEY PURTELL LIGHTING DESIGNER Toronto, ON VO DÉBUT RECENT APPEARANCES: Sweat (Canadian Stage & Studio 180; Mother’s Daughter (Soulpepper); Lil Red Robin Hood (Ross Petty Productions); Newsies (Arena Stage, DC); A Streetcar Named Desire (Soulpepper); Private Lives, The Front Page, Mother’s Daughter (Stratford Festival); Cyrano (Shaw Festival) UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS: Caroline or Change (Musical Stage Company); The Events (Necessary Angel); Frankenstein, Here’s What It Takes, Hamlet (Stratford Festival); Indecent (Mirvish & Studio 180)

SARA SMITH ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER Vancouver, BC LAST VO APPEARANCE: Assistant Lighting Designer for La Cenerentola, 2019 RECENT APPEARANCES: Lighting Director for Mambo and Other Works with Ballet Kelowna; Lighting Designer for Mamma Mia with SMUS, Victoria; Lighting Designer for Three Winters with The Cultch; Lighting Designer for Carmen with Opera Kelowna UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS: Lighting Designer for Consensual with Cookies and Cream Collective Member of Associated Designers of Canada www.sara.creativeclarity.net

ANDREA VAN PELT YOUNG ARTIST RÉPÉTITEUR Toronto, ON LAST VO APPEARANCE: Répétiteur for La Traviata, 2019 RECENT APPEARANCES: Répétiteur for Silent Light with Against the Grain, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity; Répétiteur for The Magic Flute with Toronto City Opera; Répétiteur for Fidelio with Toronto City Opera UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS: Répétiteur for Another Brick in the Wall: The Opera with Vancouver Opera Member of the Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program

Edward Nelson’s appearance sponsored by Mohammed A. Faris & Family

Gena van Oosten’s appearance sponsored by Mrs. Irene McEwen

Daevyd Pepper’s appearance sponsored by Ms. Jane McLennan

AMANDA TESTINI ASSISTANT STAGE DIRECTOR Vancouver, BC LAST VO APPEARANCE: Assistant Director of La Cenerentola, 2019 RECENT APPEARANCES: Lydia in Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley with the Arts Club, Vancouver; Choreographer of East Van Panto: Pinocchio with Theatre Replacement, Vancouver; Choreographer of Bad Hat’s Peter Pan with Carousel Theatre, Vancouver; Justine in Love Bomb with Shameless Hussy Productions, Canadian Tours; Director of Pull 8 with Speakeasy Theatre, Vancouver UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS: Assistant Director of Another Brick in the Wall: The Opera with Vancouver Opera Member of the Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program

THERESA TSANG STAGE MANAGER Brandon, MB LAST VO APPEARANCE: Stage Manager for Faust, 2019 RECENT APPEARANCES: Stage Manager for Don Quichotte with Wexford Festival Opera, Ireland; Stage Manager for The Turn of the Screw and Vespers of 1610 with Garsington Opera,UK; Stage Manager for La Bohème with Vancouver Opera; Production Stage Manager, with Vancouver Opera Festival 2017-2019 UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS: Stage Manager for Another Brick in the Wall: The Opera with Vancouver Opera Festival 2020; Stage Manager for Fidelio with Garsington Opera, UK

Amanda Testini’s appearance sponsored by Dr. George Luciuk & Dr. Lidia Schuster

Kinza Tyrrell’s appearance sponsored by The Bruendl Foundation

BRANDON THORNHILL SERGEANT Jacksonville, FL LAST VO APPEARANCE: Flora’s servant in La Traviata, 2019 RECENT APPEARANCES: Chorus in Faust with Vancouver Opera; Don Basilio in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Burnaby Lyric Opera

KINZA TYRRELL PRINCIPAL RÉPÉTITEUR/ ASSISTANT CHORUS DIRECTOR Victoria, BC LAST VO APPEARANCE: Musical Dramaturge/Music Director for The Flight of the Hummingbird with Vancouver Opera in Schools RECENT APPEARANCES: Principal Répétiteur/Assistant Chorus Director for La Traviata, 2019; BC concerts with cellist Ofra Harnoy; Chorus Director & Assistant Conductor for Faust with Vancouver Opera; Guest Artist with Rochester Philharmonic; Assistant Conductor & Chorus Director for The Merry Widow with Vancouver Opera UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS: Recording Analekta CD with Tenor Steeve Michaud Dr. Tyrrell is Head Coach of the Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program

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