Opera Atelier is thrilled to announce Together/Apart - a one-hour virtual showcase of music and dance to connect, uplift, and inspire - featuring an all-star line-up of Opera Atelier’s longstanding and audience-favourite artists from around the globe. All 14 artists on the program have personally curated their performance selections with an eye to sharing the joy and power of the creative experience during this extraordinary time.

Together/Apart will premiere on this page on Wednesday, May 20 2020, at 8PM ET.

Co-Artistic Directors Marshall Pynkoski and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg will host Together/Apart from their own living room in Toronto - introducing and connecting audiences to the artists they love and admire. Audiences can also expect a special guest-appearance by Toronto’s own Mayor John Tory. The complete line-up for Together/Apart will include:
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1. Bass-Baritone Douglas Williams - Berlin
2. Mezzo-Soprano Mireille Lebel - Vancouver
3. Artist of Atelier Ballet Xi Yi - Toronto
4. Mezzo-Soprano Wallis Giunta - Leeds
5. Soprano Meghan Lindsay - Quebec
6. Mezzo-Soprano Allyson McHardy - Toronto
7. Artist of Atelier Ballet Juri Hiraoka - Toronto
8. Soprano Melody Louledjian - Marseilles
9. Baritone Laird Mackintosh - New York
10. Soprano Measha Brueggergosman - Nova Scotia
11. Violinist/Composer Edwin Huizinga - California
12. Pianist Angela Hewitt - London
13. Tenor Colin Ainsworth - Toronto
14. Soprano Karine White - Toronto

Artistic Directors - Marshall Pynkoski and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg
Art Director - Gerard Gauci
Video Editor - Marcel Canzona
Together/Apart Music Director - Christopher Bagan

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Purcell’s semi-opera based on Dryden’s text draws the eye and ear with richly textured choral movements and beautiful songwriting. Hear Purcell’s famous ‘Fairest Isle’ and ‘Cold Genius’ as the versatile young harpsichordist/conductor Christopher Bagan leads the Collegium Musicum and Schola Cantorum. Through a new staging by director Erik Thor, the audience is asked to consider our national identity and the conflict of ideologies of our own time.

Erik Thor, stage director
Christopher Bagan, conductor

The TCC is honoured to join forces with the legendary Nathaniel Dett Chorale! This uplifting evening will present gems from the TCC’s early music repertoire thematically intertwined with the NDC’s glorious repertoire of Afrocentric music. The two choirs will join forces in double-choir music by Dett, Gabrieli, and others. The evening will also offer us the opportunity to celebrate the release of A Voice of Her Own, the TCC’s new CD.

Nathaniel Dett, chorale
Brainerd Blyden-Taylor, director
Christopher Bagan, chamber organ
Christina Faye, piano

Pre-concert chat at 7:15 with Brainerd Blyden-Taylor

Supported by the Pluralism Fund

Explore the transition from the High Baroque in Leipzig with Telemann and JS Bach to the Rococo style emerging in Sanssouci with the music of Bach’s sons including Telemann’s godson CPE Bach. Alison Melville takes the journey from the alto & bass recorder to the transverse flute in this enticing family odyssey through the mid-18th century.

• Telemann

• J.S. Bach

• C.P.E. Bach

Featuring:

• Alison Melville, recorders & flute

• Christopher Bagan, harpsichord

• Emily Eng, violin & viola

• Kerri McGonigle, cello

Pre-concert talk by Larry Beckwith 
with special guests 7:15 p.m.

St. Thomas’s Church 
383 Huron St., Toronto

Tom Allen hosts an interactive, dynamic celebration of the 
200th anniversary of the birth of this exceptional pianist/composer.

featuring Tom Allen, Christopher Bagan, Alison Beckwith, 
Patricia O’Callaghan, Angela Park and Ellie Sievers

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