Photo credit: Autumn de Wilde Applauding great performances. BMO ® Financial Group is proud to support <strong>Music</strong>Fest <strong>Vancouver</strong>, August 10 – 19, <strong>2012</strong>. Enjoy listening to internationally acclaimed musicians at the festival’s six BMO Main Stage concerts. And join us for a fun-filled afternoon of music themed activities and entertainment at <strong>Music</strong> in the Garden: BMO Family Day, followed by an evening performance by world-class musicians at VanDusen Botanical Garden. Sunday, August 19, <strong>2012</strong> 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. <strong>Music</strong> in the Garden: BMO Family Day 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. World at the Garden: New York Voices For more details, visit musicfestvancouver.ca ® Registered trade-mark of Bank of Montreal. <strong>Vancouver</strong> <strong>Early</strong> <strong>Music</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> <strong>2012</strong> — Handel’s “Orlando” - page 8 — www.earlymusic.bc.ca Docket #: 12-943 Trim Size: 7.5" x 10" rvices FILE COLOURS:
Amanda Forsythe soprano [Dorinda] Amanda Forsythe has been a winner of the George London Foundation Awards and was sponsored by them in her New York recital début. She has also received prizes from the Liederkranz Foundation and the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation. Amanda Forsythe made her European operatic début in the role of Corinna in Il viaggio a Reims at the Rossini Opera <strong>Festival</strong> in Pesaro which led to an immediate invitation to make her début at the Grand Théâtre de Genève as Dalinda in Ariodante. She returned to the Rossini Opera <strong>Festival</strong> to perform the role of Rosalia in Equivoco stravagante and Bellini duets in the ‘Malibran’ recital with Joyce di Donato. She made her débuts at the Bavarian State Opera, Munich as Dalinda in Ariodante and as Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro at the Theâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. She returned to Covent Garden to perform the role of Manto in Niobe, regina di Tebe under Thomas Hengelbrock with subsequent performances at the Grand Theatre de Luxembourg. Amanda Forsythe made her USA stage début at the Boston <strong>Early</strong> <strong>Music</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> (BEMF), with whom she is now a regular soloist. Her roles for BEMF have included Aglaure in Lully’s Psyché, Venus in Venus and Adonis (John Blow), Drusilla in L’incoronazione di Poppea, and Pallas in Eccles’ The Judgment of Paris. With Boston Baroque she has sung PACIFIC MUSICWORKS <strong>2012</strong>/13 SEASON Stephen Stubbs, Artistic Director MONTEVERDI VESPERS OF 1610 Oct. 20, <strong>2012</strong> 8:00pm St. James Cathedral 804 9th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104 Oct 21, <strong>2012</strong> 2:00pm Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Portland 147 Northwest 19th Avenue, Portland, OR 97209 ANGELS AND SHEPHERDS – BACH Cantatas for the Holiday Season Dec. 1, <strong>2012</strong> 8:00pm St. James Cathedral 804 9th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104 WAYWARD SISTERS a special collaboration with Seattle Dance Project February 22, 23, 2013 8:00pm Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center 104 17th Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98144 G.F. HANDEL’S APOLLO E DAFNE AND GLORIA April 5, 2013 8:00pm Nordstrom Recital Hall, Benaroya Hall 200 University Street, Seattle, WA 98101 pacificmusicworks.org Seattle, WA Bastienne in Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne, Serpina in Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona, Ninfa/Proserpina in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Amore in Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, Oberto in Handel’s Alcina, Lieschen in Bach’s Coffee Cantata and Wedding Cantata, Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, Vivaldi’s Juditha triumphans and Handel’s Messiah. Recent operatic engagements include the title role in Niobe, regina di Tebe (Steffani) for the Boston <strong>Early</strong> <strong>Music</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>. She will sing Pamina in Die Zauberflöte in her debut at Vlaamse Opera in <strong>2012</strong>/13. On the concert platform Amanda Forsythe’s major engagements have included Alexander’s Feast with the Ulster Orchestra and L’allegro, il perseroso, ed il moderato with the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, both under Kenneth Montgomery. She has also sung Rossini Arias at Teatro la Fenice in Venice, Cendrillon in Viardot’s Cendrillon with the Caramoor <strong>Festival</strong>, Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate and Vivaldi’s Nulla in Mundo pax sincera with the Omaha Symphony, Carmina Burana with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor with the Handel and Haydn Society, Handel’s Israel in Egypt with Emmanuel <strong>Music</strong>, and Haydn’s Creation with the Charlotte Symphony. Her other appearances include concerts with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, the Boston Chamber <strong>Music</strong> Society, and Apollo’s Fire Amanda Forsythe’s recordings with BEMF on the German CPO label include Aglaure in Lully’s Psyché and Venus in Venus and Adonis, as well as Minerve and La Grande Pretresse in Lully’s Thésée which was nominated for the 2008 Grammy Awards. Her recordings include Handel’s Messiah with Apollo’s Fire on the Avie label. Allyson McHardy alto [Medoro] d www.amandaforsythe.com Toronto-based mezzo-soprano Allyson McHardy’s voice has been described as radiant, dusky, incandescent, and sumptuous; her presence on stages in Canada, the United States and France have drawn comments such as noble, spellbinding, charming and seductive. Allyson’s varied repertoire encompasses roles from Rossini’s l’Italiana in Algeri, Cenerentola and Il Barbiere di Siviglia, to Handel’s Alcina, Ariodante and Semele, Caldara’s La Converzione di Clodoveo Rè di Francia, to Verdi’s Nabucco and Falstaff, Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito, to Bizet’s Carmen. Her orchestral repertoire includes Das Lied von der Erde, Mozart’s Requiem, Bach’s Magnificat, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, and Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius, among many other works. Following a busy summer of recitals in 2011, including a national tribute to Maureen Forrester at Stratford Summer <strong>Music</strong>, Allyson opened her current season with two role and house debuts: in September she took on the role of Annio in the Opéra national de Paris production of Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito followed by the role of Arcabonne in J.C. Bach’s Amadis de Gaule at the Opéra Comique in Paris and at the Château de Versailles. In January she performed Dijanira in Handel’s Hercules with Tafelmusik in Toronto and in February she made her debut in the title role of Carmen with Pacific Opera Victoria. She also appeared in Québec City for Mozart’s Requiem with l’Orchestre symphonique www.earlymusic.bc.ca — Handel’s “Orlando” - page 9 — <strong>Vancouver</strong> <strong>Early</strong> <strong>Music</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> <strong>2012</strong>
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