Musical explorers Apocryphonia will current a mixture of classical music and punk sensibilities for his or her subsequent live performance, titled Brews, Beauties & Brawlers. This system options works by Stanford, Coleridge-Taylor and Vaughan Williams, and it takes place March 1 at St. Olave’s Anglican Church within the metropolis’s west finish.
The vocal music of the twentieth century and Nineteen Eighties punk aesthetics might be on show, together with songs about consuming, marriage ceremony brawls and extra.
The Apocryphonia Live performance Collection derives its names from Apocryphus, which means secret, or non-canonical, taken from the Greek adjective ἀπόκρυφος (apokryphos), which means obscure.
The Music
Charles Villiers Stanford
Stanford’s choral ballad Phaudrig Crohoore is the centrepiece of this system, and it epitomizes the spirit of punk, albeit in 1896 type. The epic poem by Sheridan Le Fanu tells the story of a feisty 7-ft tall Irishman who crashes a marriage within the hopes of eloping together with his real love. He throws a number of punches, and runs off later, so the story goes. The final line reads, ‘So he took a superb pike for Phaudrig was nice, An’ he fought, an’ he died within the 12 months ’98’. Stanford, a composer within the late romantic fashion, died in 1924, making this a bit belated centenary of his loss of life.
The live performance is bookended by Stanford and Le Fanu’s work. Excerpts from their opera Shamus O’Brien, which tells the story of the titular character, hunted by the hated English throughout the Irish Rise up of 1798.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Ralph Vaughan Williams have been each college students of Stanford. Each additionally developed into their very own distinctive fashion. 2025 is Coleridge-Taylor’s one hundred and fiftieth birthday 12 months. Coleridge Taylor’s Valse Suite for piano “Three-Fours” is a showcase for virtuosic piano enjoying. The live performance additionally options the Canadian Premiere of his Three Songs of Heine.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
This system consists of consuming songs from Vaughan Williams’ Shakespearean opera Sir John in Love. The composer himself wrote the libretto primarily based on the story of The Merry Wives of Windsor, alongside wth different texts by Ben Jonson and different Elizabethans. It premiered in 1929.
Henry Purcell
Purcell, because it seems, wrote various songs with consuming as their theme, together with “Tis Wine Was Made To Rule the Day”. The ensemble will carry out a number of, together with songs in regards to the not possible quest to seek out love.
Performers
Tenor Alexander Cappellazzo
Alexander Cappellazzo, Apocryphonia’s founder, has all the time seemed for the unique inventive spark of classical music. Apocryphonia brings collectively native musicians and audiences to take pleasure in works which might be not often carried out, and have a good time their distinctive qualities.
Alexander routinely performs with corporations throughout Canada together with: VOICEBOX: Opera In Live performance, Toronto Metropolis Opera, Toronto Operetta Theatre, Opera By Request, OperOttawa, Mississauga Symphony Orchestra, the Ashkenaz Competition and choirs together with the Trinity Bach Venture, Oakville Choral Society, Jubilate Singers, Brott Music Competition, and Metropolitan United Church.
Thera Barclay, soprano
Barclay, and Ottawa native, has carried out throughout North America and Europe, together with latest engagements as Gretel (Hansel and Gretel), Flora (The Flip of the Screw), Marie (La fille du régiment), Marzelline (Fidelio), and Barbarina (The Marriage of Figaro), amongst others. She holds an Artist Diploma from The Glenn Gould College, a Grasp of Music in Opera from The College of British Columbia, and an Honours Bachelor of Music in Voice Efficiency from Wilfrid Laurier College.
Alessia Naccarato, Mezzo-Soprano
Italian-Canadian mezzo-soprano Alessia Naccarato studied voice efficiency, and graduated from the Artist Masters on the Guildhall College of Music and Drama in London, UK. She additionally earned a BFA in Voice Efficiency from York College, adopted by a MMus in Opera from the College of Toronto. Her operatic repertoire consists of quite a lot of roles, and she or he has labored with The London Up to date Orchestra, Wigmore Corridor, Opera in Live performance, The Barbican Centre, and Spectra Ensemble, amongst others.
Lucia Santilly, soprano
Primarily based in Toronto, Lucia’s latest roles embrace Gretel from Humperdinck’s Hansel und Gretel with UWO opera, Blanche in Poulenc’s Dialogue of the Carmelites with SOLT, and Canadian Debut of Raquel in Jacinto Guerrero’s operetta El huésped del sevillano with the Toronto Operetta Theatre. She additionally performs as a voice-over artist, and in musical theatre productions, together with an Ontario-wide theatre tour with Training Arts Canada.
Grace Quinsey, soprano
Soprano Grace Quinsey is from Windsor, Ontario. Her performances have been famous for his or her dramatic aptitude alongside along with her vocal talents. Latest roles embrace Giannetta in Opera York’s L’elisir d’amore, as Mařenka in Prodaná nevěsta and Terinka in Jakobín in Toronto’s Czech Music Competition, and as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro with the Toronto Live performance Orchestra, amongst many others.
Máiri Demings, mezzo-soprano
From Springhill, Nova Scotia, Máiri holds a Bachelor of Music from Acadia College and a Masters of Music from the College of Western Ontario. Her resume embrace work as a soloist and in operatic efficiency. She’s carried out in Good Mess Opera Theatre: A Good Haunting Quantity 2, Tapestry Opera Songbook XII, Gradual Rise Music: Truthful Use, Acadia Performing Arts Collection Tom Regan Memorial Live performance, amongst others. Presently primarily based in Toronto, she is a frequent performer with Voicebox: Opera in Live performance and Toronto Operetta Thetare. She additionally performs with pianist Zain Solinski within the modern duo mezzopiano.
Lillian Brooks, mezzo-soprano
Lillian made her skilled debut in 2015 with Refrain Niagara performing Mozart’s Requiem, and has usually carried out oratorio and live performance work along with operatic roles, together with peformances in Handel’s Messiah, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Bach’s St John Ardour and St Matthew Ardour, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Durufle’s Requiem, and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde and Rückert Lieder, amongst others. She is a graduate of York College, and acquired her Artist Diploma in Vocal Efficiency from the Glenn Gould College.
Catharin Carew, mezzo-soprano
Canadian Catharin Carew holds Masters of Music in Vocal Efficiency each from the Guildhall College of Music and Drama, London England and McGill College. She continues to review vocal pedagogy on the College of Toronto, the place she earned her undergraduate diploma. Catharin pursues a profession as each classical soloist and workshop clinician. Latest roles embrace Judith in Bluebeard’s Fortress with Opera 5, the Mezzo in Georges Aperghis’ Sextour: L’origine des espèces in Montreal’s MusiMars, and former roles embrace premiering the position of Maeve in Ana Sokolovic’s The Midnight Courtroom on the Royal Opera Home, Covent Backyard with Queen of Puddings Music Theatre.
David Walsh, tenor
Toronto native David Walsh lately completed his Diploma of Opera Efficiency on the College of Toronto with Honours. In the course of the 2024/25 season, carried out because the Tenor Soloist for Refrain Niagara’s Messiah. Different latest roles embrace Nemorino in North York Live performance Orchestra’s manufacturing of Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love, in addition to Conception in a brand new manufacturing with new libretto of Ravel’s A Spanish Hour in Vancouver.
William Salinas-Crosby, tenor
Primarily based in Toronto, William Salinas-Crosby is at the moment finishing his research in Voice Efficiency on the College of Toronto. Latest performances embrace appearances with the Toronto Consort, HarbourVOICES Competition, Carmina Burana with Pax Christi Chorale and North York Live performance Orchestra, and “And Nonetheless We Sing” Missa Afro-Brasileira as a part of Luminato Competition 2024.
Jean-Paul Feo, tenor
Organist, singer, and early musician Jean-Paul Feo relies in Toronto. He studied at St. Michael’s Choir College. As a soloist, Jean-Paul has given quite a few recitals throughout the town, together with Grace Church-on-the-Hill, the Cathedral Church of St. James, and St. Michael’s Cathedral-Basilica.
John Holland, bass
Czech-Canadian Bass-Baritone John Holland gained a JUNO Award in 2020 for a recording of Handel’s Dixit Dominus. He has carved a various performing profession of opera, artwork music and oratorio. His performances embrace Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro at theMozarteum in Salzburg, Leporello in Don Giovanni on the Estates Theatre in Prague, Kecal in The Bartered Bride, Purkrabi in Dvořák’s Jakobín, and lately as Belcore in L’Elisir d’amore. Dr. Holland accomplished his PhD in Musicology in 2018, his analysis targeted on the examine of Czech Opera, Artwork Music, and Choral Works, and has revealed a e book on the topic.
Moji Abella, bass
Rising bass-baritone Moji Abella graduated with a Bachelor’s diploma in Interdisciplinary Research, then pursued a Bachelor’s diploma in Music, graduating Magna Cum Laude. He has sung and toured with quite a lot of choral teams.
Martin Gomes, bass
Primarily based in downtown Toronto, Martin Gomes (He/They) is an Afro/Latino, queer author and composer. He works as an artist facilitator educating poetry and beatboxing for quite a lot of organizations. Martin has carried out with Opera Atelier, CBC, Sony, Soho Home, The Harbourfront Centre, Nuit Blanche, TOLive, and Treemonisha, amongst others.
Gabriel Sanchez-Ortega, bass
Montreal native Gabriel Sanchez-Ortega earned a efficiency diploma in voice from The Glenn Gould College., the place he was the recipient of the Ihnatowycz Rising Artist Scholarship. He has carried out in various operas for the Glenn Gould College Opera, The Aspen Opera Centre, The Mississauga Symphony Orchestra, Opera York, and Toronto Metropolis Opera. He has lately joined The Canadian Opera Firm refrain for his or her 2024/2025 season.
Narmina Afandiyeva, piano
Narmina is a graduate of the Baku Music Academy (Azerbaijan) and the College of Toronto, School of Music. She has devoted her efficiency apply to vocal and instrumental music. Narmina is an in demand collaborative artist, and up to date undertaking embrace Cherubini’s Médée (Voicebox Opera in Live performance), Barber’s A Hand of Bridge, Puccini’s Il Tabarro (OperaFest), and plenty of chamber recitals. In June 2022 and 2023 Narmina was a School member within the La Roche d’Hys: Domaine des Arts (Burgundy, France) working with younger singers.
- As Apocryphonia level out, each punk and classical music share a devotion to the music properly past notions of marketability and popular culture hyperlinks. Discover live performance information and tickets [HERE].
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