{"id":55304,"date":"2018-09-03T09:43:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T13:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=55304"},"modified":"2018-09-03T21:42:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T01:42:57","slug":"the-scoop-canadians-win-big-at-2018-operalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2018\/09\/03\/the-scoop-canadians-win-big-at-2018-operalia\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Canadians Win Big At 2018 Operalia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Operalia Lisbon 2018 Winners. Photo: Jose Luis R. Cortes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the beautiful Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos in Lisbon, Portugal last evening, two Canadian mezzo-sopranos were among the big winners of Operalia 2018, live streamed on the internet worldwide, on Medici TV and Facebook.<\/p>\n

Toronto opera fans are very familiar with the two Canadians, Emily D\u2019Angelo<\/strong> and Rihab Chaieb<\/strong>, both mezzo-sopranos. They were former members of the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio, and they have since gone on to forge significant careers. It was wonderful to watch them perform, and to see the broad smiles when they came onstage to receive their awards.<\/p>\n

Emily D\u2019Angelo, winner of the 2016 Met Auditions at the incredibly young age of 21, is currently a member of the Lindemann Young Artist Program there. Tonight, she virtually cleaned up by winning four prizes \u2013 First Prize, Birgit Nilsson Prize, Zarzuela Prize, and the Rolex Audience Prize. \u00a0For the finals, she sang \u201cDopo notte\u201d from Handel\u2019s Ariodante<\/em> with stunning fioritura. \u00a0She also sang a brilliantly idiomatic zarzuela.\u00a0 Fellow mezzo Rihab Chaieb was the Third Prize Winner, combining rich vocalism with alluring stage presence in \u201cMon coeur s\u2019ouvre a ta voix\u201d from Saint-Saens\u2019 Samson et Dalila<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Operalia
Operalia 2018 First Prize Winners Emily D’Angelo, mezzo-soprano & Pavel Petrov with Maestro Placido Domingo (Photo: Jose Luis R. Cortes)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Given the extremely high level of the competition, the successes of the two Canadians are all the more remarkable. Operalia, now in its 26th-year, is the brainchild of the great Spanish\/Mexican tenor-turned-baritone Placido Domingo who also conducted the finals. Many winners from Operalia have gone on to have big careers. Previous Canadians were soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian (First Prize 2000), bass Robert Pomakov (Third Prize 2000), and baritone-turned-tenor Joseph Kaiser (Second Prize 2005).<\/p>\n

Emily D\u2019Angelo makes her Berlin Staatsoper unter den Linden debut as Cherubino in October. She then returns to the COC to sing Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte<\/em> in January, a role she will reprise at the Santa Fe Opera in summer 2019.<\/p>\n

Rihab Chaieb sings Kasturbai in Satyagraha<\/em> at Opera Vlaanderen in Ghent, Belgium in November, followed by the title role in Fantasio<\/em> in Opera National de Montpellier in December. She returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Zerlina in Don Giovanni<\/em> in January\u2013April 2019.<\/p>\n

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First Prize<\/h3>\n

Emily D\u2019Angelo (mezzo), Canada\/Italy, 23<\/p>\n

Pavel Petrov (tenor), Belarus, 27<\/p>\n

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Second Prize<\/h3>\n

Samantha Hankey (mezzo), USA, 26<\/p>\n

Migran Agadzhanyan (tenor), Russia, 26<\/p>\n

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Third Prize<\/h3>\n

Rihab Chaieb (mezzo), Canada, 31<\/p>\n

Arseny Yakovlev (tenor), Russia, 26<\/p>\n

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Birgit Nilsson Prize<\/h3>\n

Emily D\u2019Angelo (mezzo), Canada\/Italy, 23<\/p>\n

Samantha Hankey (mezzo), USA, 26<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Pepita Embil Zarzuela Prize<\/h3>\n

Emily D\u2019Angelo (mezzo), Canada\/Italy, 23<\/p>\n

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The Don Pl\u00e1cido Domingo Ferrer Zarzuela Prize (tie)<\/h3>\n

Pavel Petrov (tenor), Belarus, 27<\/p>\n

Luis Gomes (tenor), Portugal, 31<\/p>\n

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Audience Prize<\/h3>\n

Emily D\u2019Angelo (mezzo), Canada\/Italy, 23<\/p>\n

Luis Gomes (tenor), Portugal, 31<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

CulturArte Prize<\/h3>\n

Josy Santos (mezzo), Brazil, 29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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