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Ever wonder what Rossini’s famous aria “Una voce poco fa” from Il barbiere di Siviglia sounds like with a little Bluegrass mixed in?
Hear Allyson bring it to the 5th Annual Global Cabaret Festival as part of their Night at the Popera on October 13 & 14.
Listen to Radio-Canada’s Espace Musique on Wednesday August 15th at 8pm for a broadcast of Allyson’s performance of Handel arias
Listen to Radio-Canada’s Espace Musique on Wednesday August 15th at 8pm for a broadcast of Allyson’s performance of Handel arias and the Pergolesi Stabat Mater from the 2012 Lamèque International Baroque Music Festival.
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A unique vocal colour and commanding stage presence are the hallmarks of performances by mezzo-soprano Allyson McHardy. Hailed by Joshua Kosman of the San Francisco Chronicle as “a singer of enormous imagination and versatility”, she has appeared with the Paris Opera, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Chicago Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Glyndebourne Festival, San Francisco Opera, Boston Symphony, Canadian Opera Company, Warsaw Philharmonic and Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse. Adam Fischer, Seiji Ozawa, Jeremy Rohrer, Kent Nagano, Emmanuelle Haim, Bernard Labadie, Ludovic Morlot, Carlos Kalmar and Jesus Lopez Cobos are among the conductors with whom she has collaborated for performances of works such as L’enfant et les sortileges, La clemenza di Tito, Das Rheingold, Dream of Gerontius and Messiah.
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Handel: Messiah
Music of the Baroque Orchestra
Recorded live in November 2021, Handel’s Messiah features the Music of the Baroque Chorus and Orchestra and soloists Sherezade Panthaki, soprano, Allyson McHardy, mezzo-soprano, Brian Giebler, tenor, and Matthew Brook, bass-baritone under the direction of Nicholas Kraemer.