{"id":4171,"date":"2012-05-31T22:21:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T03:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=4171"},"modified":"2012-05-31T22:21:19","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T03:21:19","slug":"canadians-fare-well-in-first-stage-of-montreal-international-voice-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2012\/05\/31\/canadians-fare-well-in-first-stage-of-montreal-international-voice-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians fare well in first stage of Montreal International Voice Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4176\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4176\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/semi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4176\" title=\"semi\" src=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/semi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/05\/semi.jpg 612w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/05\/semi-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/05\/semi-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">16 semi-finalists pose on Thursday night at the 2012 Montreal International Vocal Competition (Joel Ivany photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Organizers of the Montreal International Voice Competition tonight announced the 16 semi-finalists in the 2012 contest. Eight of them are Canadian singers.<\/p>\n<p>The semi-final round recitals begin Friday, June 1, at 7:30 p.m. at the new Salle Bourgie recital hall next door to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first semi-final session includes three Canadians, including Toronto soprano Miriam Khalil who, just days ago, was singing the lead role of the Governess in a Toronto production of Benjamin Britten&#8217;s opera, <em>The Turn of the Screw<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Five more Canadians, including two voices familiar to Torontonians &#8212; sopranos Jacqueline Woodley and Jennifer Taverner &#8212; perform on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>There are only two tenors among the 2012 semi-finalists: Yuri Gorodeski, from Belarus, and South Korean Won Whi Choi.<\/p>\n<p>The semi-finals are being broadcast by Radio Canada&#8217;s Espace musique chain, which can be heard in Toronto on 90.3 FM. Saturday&#8217;s two sessions begin at 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The broadcasts will also stream on the Radio-Canada website.<\/p>\n<p>For all the details on the semi-finalists, a link to their profiles and programmes, and broadcast details, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.concoursmontreal.ca\/permanent\/en\/nouvelles\/nouvelle.asp?nouvelleID=232\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organizers of the Montreal International Voice Competition tonight announced the 16 semi-finalists in the 2012 contest. Eight of them are Canadian singers. The semi-final round recitals begin Friday, June 1, at 7:30 p.m. at the new Salle Bourgie recital hall next door to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,17,19,36,39,56,70],"tags":[6450,632,2269,2964,6478],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/05\/semi.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-15h","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}