@HalifaxOpera profile picture
HalifaxOperaFestival @HalifaxOpera

Applications being accepted now for the 2023 season!

Joined February 2011
  • Tweets 1,960
  • Following 633
  • Followers 1,007
314 Photos and videos
Application form now available for 2023 Halifax Summer Opera Festival - mailchi.mp/2fde2841f5e1/appl…
A wonderful review of HSOF 2022 by @operacanada halifaxsummeroperafestival.c…
1
HalifaxOperaFestival retweeted
HalifaxOperaFestival@HalifaxOpera
26 Jul 2022
Marie Antoinette and Gluck seattletimes.com/entertainme… Gluck was the young Marie-Antoinette’s music teacher in her native city of Vienna before she married Louis XVI and became queen of France at the age of 18. #gluck #HSOF #MarieAntoinette #Armide

Gluck’s revolution: Pacific MusicWorks performs ‘Orphée,’ an opera by Marie Antoinette’s music...

In 1774, Christoph Gluck — the son of a gamekeeper and Marie Antoinette’s music teacher — brought his lifelong reform of opera to Paris with “Orphée et Eurydice.”

seattletimes.com
1
1
HalifaxOperaFestival retweeted
HalifaxOperaFestival@HalifaxOpera
16 Jul 2022
Halifax Summer Opera Festival features Gluck’s Armide Performances August 11 – August 14, 2022 A Crusade of the Heart, Vanquished by Hate The NYTimes article - nytimes.com/2012/02/10/arts/… More details: halifaxsummeroperafestival.c… #opera #armide #gluck
1
2
ARMIDE - Character Portrait: Crusaders Ubalde and Le Chevalier Danois are Renaud’s companions who brave terrible dangers to rescue him from Armide’s enchantments. Image source: by Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, (Exhibited at Paris, Salon, 1785,) #armide #gluck #HSOF
HalifaxOperaFestival retweeted
HalifaxOperaFestival@HalifaxOpera
23 Jul 2022
Armide by Christoph Wilibald Gluck sung in French. eventbrite.ca/e/armide-an-op… operascribe.com/2019/08/28/1… "Gluck outraged the French. He committed what some called an artistic blasphemy: he dared to set one of Quinault’s libretti for Lully, and the most esteemed of all: Armide."

Armide, an opera by C.W. Gluck

Halifax Summer Opera Festival returns with ARMIDE, a clash of cultures, a battle between men and women & a struggle between love and hate.

eventbrite.ca
1
Interesting article about how to banish self-consciousness and doubt when you are a performer. Several techniques to master stage-fright are outlined here. Which ones if any do you use? #halifaxsummer #HSOF2022 #opera #stagefright
1
ARMIDE - Character Portrait: La Haine - Hatred Armide, struggling against her feelings of love for her enemy, Renaud, summons La Haine, the personification of Hatred, to stiffen her resolve to kill the Crusader. halifaxsummeroperafestival.c… #armide #Gluck #HSOF
2
Meet Alberta soprano Elizabeth Fast, singing the role of the Demon Lucinde in the Halifax Summer Opera Festival production of Armide this summer!
3
HalifaxOperaFestival retweeted
HalifaxOperaFestival@HalifaxOpera
18 Jul 2022
Halifax #Summer #Opera Festival returns with ARMIDE Tickets: eventbrite.ca/e/armide-an-op… "Nothing that #Gluck had written up to this time was so uninterruptedly perfect as this; its voluptuous, cloying beauty is in marked contrast to much of his music,.." operascribe.com/2019/08/28/1…
0:53
1
1
Crusaders Ubalde and Carlo, battle to rescue their commander Renaud from the sorceress Armide. Their biggest threat is two demons who take the shape of their lovers back home, Lucinde and Melissse. eventbrite.ca/e/armide-an-op…
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house. - Maria Callas
1
Vocal exercise to improve your voice. source: Brilliant Vocal Exercise From One Of The Greatest Opera Singers Mario Del Monaco, Which Will Improve Your Voice Enormously! tutorhunt.com/resource/23424… #voice #vocal #opera #singing
1
"I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent and this is what I’ve devoted my life to.” - Luciano Pavarotti #halifaxoperafestival #halifaxsummer2022 #opera #pavarotti
1
Meet Nova Scotian soprano Claire Hartlen, who is performing the role of Armide's friend Sidonie this summer with the Halifax Summer Opera Festival!
HalifaxOperaFestival retweeted
HalifaxOperaFestival@HalifaxOpera
19 Jul 2022
Making her Halifax Summer Opera debut this year is New Brunswick soprano Amanda Godin, who will sing the role of Armide's close friend, Phénice in our production of Gluck's Armide. eventbrite.ca/e/armide-an-op…
1
1
GLUCK'S ARMIDE: It’s a story about a clash of cultures and about male versus female power, but most of all it’s about the many ways that love can enchant, confuse, torment and destroy us. Halifax Summer Opera Festival tickets: halifaxsummeroperafestival.c… #HSOF #halifaxsummer
1
2
HalifaxOperaFestival retweeted
HalifaxOperaFestival@HalifaxOpera
25 Jul 2022
The Halifax Summer Opera Festival would like to thank the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts for being our 2022 Season Sponsor of Gluck's Armide. maritimeconservatory.com/
2
2
HalifaxOperaFestival retweeted
HalifaxOperaFestival@HalifaxOpera
15 Jul 2022
Making her Halifax Summer Opera Festival debut is French soprano Agnès Ménard in the title role of Armide. After her studies in France, Agnès relocated to Canada to study with Rosemarie Landry at L'Université de Montréal. Tickets for Armide are available eventbrite.ca/e/armide-an-op…
1
2
Load more