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“Open your heart, and let the music in”
Allyson McHardy talks about Opera Atelier’s online premiere of Handel’s The Resurrection with Sesay Arts Magazine. Check it out here.
Opera Atelier: Canadian Film Premiere of Handel’s The Resurrection
As Cleophas, McHardy has a mellifluous tone and an unfaltering vocal dexterity that makes the numerous coloratura passages in “Vedo il ciel, che più sereno” sound easy. (Opera Canada, Joshua Chong, May 31, 2021). Equally gripping, and often outright owning both stage...
Handel’s The Resurrection
Don't miss the Canadian Film Premiere of Handel's The Resurrection on May 27th, 2021 at 7:00PM ET. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit operaatelier.com. Sets by Gerard Gauci. Costumes and Flags by Michael Legouffe. Hair by Jacqueline Cull....
Together/Apart with Opera Atelier – Wednesday May 20 at 8pm
Together/Apart - a one-hour virtual showcase of music and dance to connect, uplift, and inspire - featuring an all-star line-up of Opera Atelier’s longstanding and audience-favourite artists from around the globe. All 14 artists on the program have personally curated...
Acoustic Afternoons with Pacific Opera Victoria
Grab a coffee, take a breath, and hang out with Allyson McHardy! Enjoy intimate glimpses of some of the Pacific Opera family of artists, as they share their homes, their songs and how things are going for them during this extraordinary time. Opera singers featured in...
POV’s Flight: retro take on deeply human tales
As the pregnant Minskwoman, Allyson McHardy begins as unsympathetic: she refuses to fly to Minsk with her husband for no obvious reason, and appears selfish and self-indulgent when she later tries to explain her feelings about being pregnant. Yet McHardy, with her...
Prix Opus for Flying Dutchman at Festival d’opéra de Québec
Concert de l'année - Québec Le vaisseau fantôme de Wagner Festival d’opéra de Québec, François Girard, mise en scène, Jacques Lacombe, chef, Gregory Dahl, baryton, Andreas Bauer Kanabas, basse, Johanni van Oostrum, soprano, Allyson McHardy, mezzo-soprano, Éric...
2020 JUNO Nomination!
2020 Juno Nomination for Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral
Healey Willan : Summer Night
Canadian Art Song Project
Le vaisseau fantôme au Festival d’opéra de Québec
"...la mezzo Allyson McHardy, en nourrice, chante et joue bellement un rôle trop court." (Le Soleil, Josianne Desloges, 30 juillet, 2019) "In the short role of Mary, Allyson McHardy had a strong and attractive stage presence, rather than the common matronly...
Calgary Philharmonic Mendelssohn’s Elijah
"Allyson McHardy smooth and rich-sounding in the mezzo role, and with a fine rendition of O Rest in the Lord," (Calgary Herald, Kenneth DeLong, March 31, 2019)
Hippolyta in Opera Philadelphia’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"Evan Hughes and Allyson McHardy came close to stealing the show as Theseus and and Hippolyta, dominating their scenes with charisma, aristocratic hauteur and superlative singing." (Opera News, May 2019) "Allyson McHardy's elegance of both mien and vocalism made a...
VSO Dvořák Stabat Mater
"(Maestro)Tausk’s latest performances came last weekend: a concert designed to commemorate the end of World War I with Antonin Dvořák’s Stabat mater (1877) for a quartet of soloists (including wonderful mezzo Allyson McHardy), large choir, and orchestra...It was...