issue one - Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

UBC OPERA ENSEMBLE
The Yeomen of the Guard (Jack Point), also
at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden:
for Opera North; Playing Away (Stan Stock),
Of Thee I sing (French Ambassador), Let ‘em
eat cake (General Snookfield) and Paradise
Moscow (Barabashkin).
Work abroad includes The Mikado (City
Opera, New York, Venice, Vancouver), Iolanthe
(San Francisco Symphony), After Life (Der
Nederlands Oper and L’Opera Nationale de
Lyon), Playing Away and Paradise Moscow
(Bregenz), Le Grand Macabre (Salzburg
Festival ), Candide at The Hollywood Bowl .
He has recorded several Savoy Operas
with WNO under Sir Charles Mackerras;
other recordings include Greek, The Geisha,
Candide, The Maid of the Mountains, The
Fairy Queen, and The Little Prince.
He is a regular visitor to the International G&S
Festival in Buxton and is a Fellow of the Royal
Academy of Music.
UBC Opera Ensemble
The University of British Columbia Opera
Ensemble was founded by Canadian lyric
coloratura Nancy Hermiston in 1995.
Beginning with a core of seven performers,
Ms. Hermiston has built the program to a
70-member company, now performing three
main-stage productions at UBC every season,
seven Opera Tea Concerts, and several
engagements with local community partners.
The Ensemble’s mission is to educate
young gifted opera singers preparing them
for international careers. Past main-stage
productions have included Le Nozze di
Figaro, Die Zauberflöte, Die Gärtnerin aus
Liebe, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Robert
Ward’s The Crucible based on the Pulitzer
Prize winning play by Arthur Miller, Gianni
Schicchi, Suor Angelica, La Bohème, Dido
and Aeneas, The Merry Widow, The Bartered
Bride, Manon, Eugene Onegin, Florence Lady
with the Lamp, Dreamhealer, Falstaff and the
Western Canadian Premiere of Harry Somer’s
Louis Riel. In the 2010-2011 Season, the
Ensemble presents Mozart’s Don Giovanni,
and Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring, in the
renewed Old Auditorium and Massenet’s
Cendrillon in the Chan Centre. ■