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Allyson is in Victoria getting ready for Carmen with Pacific Opera – Check out the following interviews:
Victoria Times Colonist – Allyson speaks with Amy Smart about her path (PDF) and what type of music she prefers to listen to.
CTV Vancouver Island — watch Allyson talk about channeling AC/DC in her performance as Carmen!
La Conversione di Clodoveo JUNO Nomination!
Allyson's recording of Caldara's La Conversione di Clodoveo with Le Nouvel Opéra (ATMA) is up for Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral Performance at the 2012 JUNO Awards. The awards will be handed out at ceremonies in Ottawa on March 31st and April 1st. For...
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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.
Latest Album
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.