Calgary Concert Opera

On March 11, 2023, CLM Productions presents the opera Roberto Devereux by Gaetano Donizetti in concert, collaborating with Calgary Concert Opera Company and Opera by Request. 

Roberto Devereux - ERNESTO RAMIREZ
Queen Elisabetta - CARA LIANNE MCLEOD
Sara, Duchess of Nottingham - BARBARA KING
Lord Duke of Nottingham - BERTRAND MALO
Lord Guglielmo Cecil - DAN ROWLEY
Sir Gualtiero Raleigh - HANS FORBRICH
Servant / Page - BERNIE SCHALOSKE

Music Director / Piano / Coach - WILLIAM SHOOKHOFF

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CCOC joins forces yet again with Opera by Request and the Foothills Philharmonic Opera Chorus to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee at the Okotoks Alliance Church on September 17th and at Cardel Theatre on September 19th!

Roberto Devereux is the dramatic final chapter in Donizetti’s Tudor Queens Trilogy.

Featuring

Ernesto Ramírez – Roberto Devereux

Cara Lianne McLeod – Elisabetta, Queen of England

Barbara King – Sara, Duchess of Nottingham

Bertrand Malo – The Duke of Nottingham

Valentin Borsu – Lord Cecil

Aaron Bartholomew – Sir Gualtiero Raleigh

Oliver Peplowski – Servant of Nottingham & Page

Alyssa Durnie – Elisabetta Cover

Willian Shookhoff – Music Director & Piano

Foothills Philharmonic Society Opera Chorus

CCOC's 10 Year Anniversary Celebration!

September 25th, 2021 - 7:30pm 

Polaris Centre for the Performing Arts 

This spectacular evening featured the countless highlights of CCOC’s 10 year journey including selections from la Traviata, Werther, Carmen, Samson et Dalila, I Capuleti Ed I Montecchi, Suor Angelica, Il Tabarro, Rigoletto, Cosi fan tutte and la Gioconda.

December 2, 2020

RPAC@Home Concert Series 

Featuring 

Soprano Cindy MacDonald

Mezzo Soprano Barbara King

Tenor Oliver Munar 

Piano Accompanist Grace King

Outdoor Virtual Concert hosted by 

Calgary Piano House

Thank you to our sponsor of the RPAC@Home Concert series: TD Bank

February 23, 2020

The Calgary Civic Symphony is joined by the Calgary Concert Opera Company for the first time in this program of some of the best known works of the Italian and German operatic repertoire. We start our celebration of the mighty Beethoven’s 250th birthday by closing this concert with the Overture and Finale of his lone opera, Fidelio.

Rolf Bertsch - Conductor

Tenor:

Dan Rowley, Oliver Munar
Soprano:

Anna Mendham, ​Cara  McLeod
Kathleen Morrison
Mezzo Soprano​:

Barbara King, Bethany Yon
Bass-Baritone

Adam Arnold, Ian Fundytus
​Uwe Dambruch
Foothills Philharmonic Opera Chorus

November 18, 2019

CTV Calgary Toy Mountain 

campaign benefitting the 

Calgary Women's Emergency Shelter

(19000 toys collected and nearly 

$650000 in donations)

Featuring:

Soprano Kathleen Morrison

Mezzo Soprano Barbara King

Pianist Eleanor May

September 2019

Opera by Request

Foothills Philharmonic Opera Chorus 

William Shookhoff: Music Director

Narrator: Harris Kirshenbaum

Dan Rowley: Samson 

Barbara King & Alicia Woynarski: Dalila 

Adam Brousseau: High Priest

Ian Fundytus: Abimelach 

Uwe Dambruch: Old Hebrew 

Steven Morton: First Philistine

Stuart Lloyd: Second Philistine

Oliver Munar: Philistine Messenger 

September 15th, 16th , 2018

Rocky Mountain Symphony Orchestra

Foothills Philharmonic Opera Chorus 

12 Musas Flamenco 

Narrator: Harris Kirshenbaum

Carlos Foggin - Conductor

Kathleen Morrison: Violetta

Linda Miller: Violetta

Dan Rowley: Alfredo

Adam Brousseau: Germont

Barbara King: Flora

Cindy MacDonald: Annina

Valentin Borsu: Gastone

Oliver Munar: Gastone

Ian Fundytus : Dottore & Barone

Paul Lloyd : Marchese

Stuart Lloyd : Guiseppe

Chad Ruston: Commissioner

September 2017

Rocky Mountain Symphony Orchestra

Foothills Philharmonic Orchestra

12 Musas Flamenco

Narrator: Harris Kirshenbaum

Carlos Foggin - Conductor

Tenors: 

Boris Derow, Daniel Rowley, Valentin Borsu 

Sopranos: 

Kathleen Morrison, Krista di Silva, 

Anna Mendham, Nansee Hughes, 

Catherine Brown, Anna Casurella, 

Ainsley Soutiere, Linda Faye Miller 

Mezzo Sopranos: 

Bethany Yon, Alicia Woynarski, 

Barbara King, Sara Staples, 

Courtney V. Murias 

Bass-Baritones: 

Uwe Dambruch, Ian Fundytus, 

Graham Paynter, Adam Brousseau 

Piano Accompanists: 

Grace King & Renate Rossol