{"id":4223,"date":"2012-06-02T22:34:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T03:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=4223"},"modified":"2012-06-02T22:34:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T03:34:15","slug":"three-canadians-among-eight-montreal-international-voice-competition-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2012\/06\/02\/three-canadians-among-eight-montreal-international-voice-competition-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Canadians among eight Montreal International Voice Competition finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4225\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4225\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sly.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4225\" title=\"sly\" src=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/06\/sly.jpg 504w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/06\/sly-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baritone Philiipe Sly is among three Canadians moving on to the final round of the Montreal International Voice Competition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Montreal International Voice Competition announced its 2012 finalists tonight. Three Canadians have placed among the top eight competitors: sopranos Emily Duncan-Brown and Andr\u00e9anne Paquin and baritone Philippe Sly.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>They will perform for the jury one more time on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, with the laureates scheduled to be announced at 10:30 p.m., following the second concert.<\/p>\n<p>None of the singers with Toronto connections made it to the finals. Sly and Duncan-Brown are McGill University graduates, while Paquin&#8217;s academic credits include a Masters degree from Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n<p>Sly is one of Canada&#8217;s most promising young voices. His growing list of accompliahments includes having won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions last year. He had a small role in the Canadian Opera Company&#8217;s production of I<em>phig\u00e9nie en Tauride<\/em> early this season.<\/p>\n<p>Radio-Canada is broadcasting the concerts live on its Espace-musique chain (heard on 90.3 FM in Toronto and environs), as well as offering live streaming on the web.<\/p>\n<p>For all the details, as well as a full list of finalists and their performance times, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.concoursmontreal.ca\/permanent\/en\/nouvelles\/nouvelle.asp?nouvelleID=234\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:<\/p>\n<p>In an effective lesson on why I should&#8217;t post words here as my eyes are closing before bed,\u00a0I received a note from Canadian Opera Company spokesperson Claudine Domingue, who reminds me that Sly was a member of the COC Ensemble Studio last season, and had roles in multiple operas.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Childrens Opera Chorus artistic director Ann Cooper Gay also corrected me me:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Emily Duncan-Brown does, indeed, have Toronto roots because she was my star soprano my first year at the CCOC (2000-2001).\u00a0 We toured &#8220;The Snow Queen&#8221; to Europe and she sang the lead.\u00a0 Her younger sister was also in the choir and had a beautiful voice, too.\u00a0 Emily toured with Cirque for awhile and then went to McGill.\u00a0 She headed to the States and I heard her sing Violetta and I felt she was really going to go places.\u00a0 She placed 1st in the Met Eastern regionals and she was in the call backs for the COC Ensemble.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Montreal International Voice Competition announced its 2012 finalists tonight. Three Canadians have placed among the top eight competitors: sopranos Emily Duncan-Brown and Andr\u00e9anne Paquin and baritone Philippe Sly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,17,36,39,70],"tags":[6450,270,432,632,1150,1286,2270,2642],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/06\/sly.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-167","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223"}],"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=4223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4223"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}