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THE Mainstage Series Sponsor Performance Sponsors MISSION STATEMENT Manitoba Opera is a non-profit arts organization dedicated to changing people’s lives through the glory of opera. MANITOBA OPERA OFFICE Lower Level, Centennial Concert Hall Room 1060, 555 Main Street Winnipeg, MB R3B 1C3 BOX OFFICE LARRY DESROCHERS General Director & CEO 9:30 am - 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday MANITOBANS Single Tickets: 204-944-8824 TADEUSZ BIERNACKI Subscriber Services Hotline: 204-957-7842 Assistant Music Director/Chorus Master BANd Online: tickets.mbopera.ca MICHAEL BLAIS Website: mbopera.ca Director of Administration To advertise in this program call: BETHANY BUNKO 204-944-8824 TOGETHER Communications Coordinator TANIA DOUGLAS Manitoba Opera is a member of the Being part of this community means we can count on Association for Opera in Canada Director of Development and Opera America. each other even in uncertain times. By joining us here JAYNE HAMMOND Grants & Corporate Giving Manager today, we unite in supporting local artists, musicians and SHELDON JOHNSON Director of Production performing arts groups, letting them know that they can LIZ MILLER Manitoba Opera gratefully acknowledges the Annual Giving Manager count on us, while at the same time, reminding encouragement and financial support given by the following: SCOTT MILLER Education & Community Engagement one another that we’re still all in this together. Coordinator TYRONE PATERSON Music Advisor & Principal Conductor DARLENE RONALD Director of Marketing DALE SULYMKA Chief Financial Officer 2020/21 Board of Trustees Paul Bruch-Wiens Timothy E. Burt Judith Chambers Maria Mitousis Dr. Bill Pope Alex Robinson SECRETARY CFA; Senior Vice-President VICE CHAIR Principal, Mitousis Lemieux Retired, Registrar, College of Business Development Private Wealth Manager, and Chief Market Strategist, BCom, CFP, TEP; Vice President Howard Law Corporation Physicians & Surgeons Manager, Graham Construction Quadrant Private Wealth Cardinal Capital Management, & Market Manager, TD Wealth and Engineering Inc. Terence Sakohianisaks Flavia Fernandez Fabio Dr. David Folk Dustin Schneider Keith Sinclair Dr. Jeffrey Sisler Douglas Provincial Manager – Medical Director for Amdocs - Insurance Solutions Specialist, President & CEO, Harris Executive Director, Indigenous Advocate Manitoba & Saskatchewan, providing Medical Services to Blackwood Family Enterprise Leadership Strategies Professional Development & & Barrister and Solicitor Escalade Wines & Spirits Northern First Nations Services and Unity Insurance Practice Support, The College of Communities Family Physicians of Canada DIRECTORS EMERITI James W. Astwood Thos. F. Copeland* Rosalind Dick D. Chris Finnbogason* Peter George H.E. Harland Peter George Elba Haid Leona Herzog D. Grant Suderman Lori Yorke Mrs. Kenneth R. Howell Owner, McKim CHAIR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CHAIR Principal, Verge Strategy Group TREASURER Communications Group President and CEO, Visual Arts Management Owner, Medi-Quote A. Rolph Huband Realcare Inc. Consultant Insurance Brokers Inc. Richard Irish Bruce H. Lang Mrs. Sinclair A. Levack* Allan M. Moore* UNDER THE DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE OF Dr. Robert N. Morris The Honourable Janice C. Filmon, C.M., O.M. Dr. M.M. Pierce* Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba Dr. Elmer E. Reimer His Worship Brian Bowman, Louis R. (Bud) Sherman* Mayor of the City of Winnipeg Eleanor Siddall FOUNDING PRESIDENT Dr. Lawrence Soloway* The Honourable A. Kerr Twaddle* Jennifer Snyder J.F. Reeh Taylor* Daniela Ignat Charlene Ilas Lana Maidment ARTISTIC DIRECTOR EMERITUS Leigh Taylor Vice President and Financial Marketing Specialist, President and CEO, Dr. Irving Guttman, C.M., O.B.C.* Advisor, Granite Financial Group Stantec Consulting Ltd. Komana Financial Robert Vineberg Inc. FOUNDING DIRECTOR EMERITUS Dr. Robert H. Thorlakson, O.C.* * deceased THE SOLO SESSIONS 4 2021 MANITOBA OPERA Message from the gratefully acknowledges the support of our Chair, Board of 2020/21 Sponsors and Funders Trustees 2020/21 SEASON PRESENTED BY Welcome to The Solo Sessions, our final Season Sponsors “mainstage” event of the season. This is also my final message to you as Chair of the Board of Trustees. Thank you, first and foremost, for the trust and confidence you placed in me as chair over the debt are just a few highlights of my tenure. One MEDIA SPONSOR past four years. The time spent has been one of of the memories that touched me most came the highlights of my career path. It has been an when the pandemic began last March. honour and a pleasure leading and representing Mainstage Series Sponsor Manitoba Opera and our community. Manitoba Opera was in the middle of rehearsals for our new production of Carmen. Despite the As I think back on the past four years, I’m filled uncertainty, fear, and strain of that moment, with gratitude toward all those I have met and the decision was made to cancel the opera worked with in my role as chair. I have had and to pay all the performers in full. This set Performance Sponsors available to me three previous board chairs, a precedent and an example for other opera Peter George, Jennifer Snyder, and Robert companies across Canada. The letters and notes Vineberg, all of whom laid strong foundations from the performers that I received on behalf of for the organization. In addition, a stable the Board and Management were heartfelt. The Education & Community Engagement Sponsors consortium of board members with years of artists were so grateful. experience from various sectors enhanced and assisted me in further reinforcing Manitoba Leadership is really about teamwork, and we Opera. have an excellent team at Manitoba Opera. My fellow board members work together diligently In my capacity as chair, I encountered opera to advance the company, our dedicated governance colleagues from across Canada and staff create inspiring programming, and our DIGITAL EMERGING ARTISTS PROGRAM SUPPORTERS the U.S., remarkable artists who have performed volunteers give freely of their time. None of this here, and the superlative individuals working could be possible without the generosity of our in the MO office. I have crossed paths with so donors, sponsors, and public funders. many wonderful, generous, and talented people. Official Sponsors Though my term as chair is ending, I’m not For the last 20 years we have all been fortunate going far. My next quest is to build Manitoba VIRTUAL OPENING NIGHT OFFICIAL IT SPONSOR WEBSITE SPONSOR DINNER WINE SPONSOR SPONSOR beneficiaries of the exceptional leadership of Opera’s endowment fund to sustain the Larry Desrochers as General Director & CEO. company and ensure it is a vital musical force leadership HarrisStrategies His stellar reputation has attracted world-class for years to come. talent both on the stage and behind the scenes. Public Funders Working closely with Larry made the hard It has been an honour and pleasure to serve as times easier and the successes more sweet. He your chair. I look forward to seeing you at an With the generous support of the Manitoba Arts Council. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. brings levity and optimism to any situation and opening very soon. inspired all around him to bring their very best. Warmest regards, With the generous support of the Winnipeg Arts Council with funding from the City of Winnipeg. We have accomplished so much: producing first-rate productions, debuting new artists, Elba Haid launching the Gail Asper Award, and retiring the CHAIR THE SOLO SESSIONS 5 2021 THE SOLO SESSIONS 6 2021 Message from the General Director Great opera & CEO Music is like a vaccine for the soul – a little injection and you’re immune to whatever has you down. Over the past year, we’ve been On the other hand, recording artists – especially lives here. giving booster shots of music through our on film – gives the music a completely different online programming of concerts, education feel. The camera is your guide; it can take initiatives, community engagement activities, you close to the action, give you a different and virtual dinners. By doing so, we hope we’ve vantage point, or create a mood that opens helped to get you through these past months. up the music. At its best, it makes you feel like you are on stage with the artist. And as you’ll Our latest musical antidote, The Solo Sessions, see, each episode has its own feel specifically features five Manitoba vocalists recorded live suited to the vocalists and the pieces they are on stage at the Centennial Concert Hall. Filmed performing. by award-winning Winnipeg filmmaker Deco Dawson, these videos give us the opportunity I hope that we’ll be back on stage soon, but to do something we don’t normally do – in the meantime, please be sure to check out celebrate a variety of musical genres. The each episode as it is released – you’ll boost your wonderful artists presented in this series dopamine, lower your cortisol, and ease your perform selections from opera, art song, folk mind. If you take your medicine in small doses, music, musical theatre, and even a little soul – a you’ll feel better for a longer period of time. virtual variety pack of “pick-me-ups.” Normally, opera celebrates the unamplified voice – the power of a beautiful voice with the Sincerely, ability to cut through a full orchestra in full flight. Live performance, for us, is an ephemeral Larry Desrochers experience – you experience it in the moment GENERAL DIRECTOR & CEO and then it’s gone. You make your way to the Concert Hall, settle into a seat, and let the opera At BMO, we take pride in our local sweep over you. While you get to see the whole stage picture, there are no close-ups. communities, and the artists that contribute to the cultural diversity and artistic richness of our cities. We’re proud to be Manitoba Opera’s Season Sponsor. THE SOLO SESSIONS 7 2021 THE SOLO SESSIONS 8 2021 PROGRAM NOTES The Artists AARON HUTTON This program is heavily rooted in theatre, dance, and the musical-play Award-winning tenor Aaron Hutton engagements with many of the Aaron Hutton’s career has taken him genre.