Norman E. Brown, Artistic Director
Saturday, October 5, 2019 8:00pm
OperOttawa produces opera and oratorio performances for the concert stage featuring established and emerging opera stars in Canada. Tonight’s show features Bizet’s rarely performed masterpiece “The Pearl Fishers”. Singers Norman E. Brown (baritone), Cristina Pisani (soprano), Robert Martin (tenor), and John Holland (bass) will perform the work in concert in the original French, with Claire Harris on piano.
Café in Paris
The Bedford Trio
January 25, 2020 8:00pm
Alessia Disimino, violin
Andrew Ascenzo, cello
Jialiang Zhu, piano
The Bedford Trio is the first piano trio to be selected for the Irene R. Miller Piano Trio Residency at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music. These three award-winning artists perform a concert of melodious and passionate trios that can be imagined overheard sitting in an outdoor café in Paris at night, musing over reflections on the surface on the Seine.
Defying Gravity
Quartetto Gelato
March 28, 2020 8:00pm
Peter De Sotto, violin, voice
Colin Maier, oboe
Kirk Starkey, cello
Charles Cozens, accordion
Quartetto Gelato is unique, with a virtuoso violinist (also a brilliant tenor), a champion accordionist, an acclaimed cellist and an oboist who happens to be a Cirque de Soleil acrobat! For over 25 years, QG has toured the globe performing classical masterworks, Argentinian tangos, gypsy ballads and Latin love songs, with virtuosity, artistry & plenty of humor.
A Spring-Time Messiah
St. Jude’s Choir
Simon Walker, Music Director
May 23, 2020 8:00pm
Parts 2 and 3 of Handel’s beloved Messiah will be performed by the St. Jude’s Choir, conducted by Music Director Simon Walker with our favourite soloists and chamber orchestra. Death and Resurrection are the themes of this masterpiece, miraculously written in less than a month for performance during the Easter season in 1742.
