Tosca features some of Puccini’s most gorgeous music, as it chronicles a fateful evening for singer Floria Tosca, her lover Mario Cavaradossi, and the corrupt Baron Scarpia, the lecherous chief of police. Incidentally, Tosca was the first opera in which I had a principal role many moons ago.

If you’re new to opera, Tosca is definitely one that should be on your list of ones to watch. Calgary Opera has shows on October 16, October 18 and October 24.

TOSCA by Giacomo Puccini
Conducted by Jonathan Brandani
Featuring Maria Natale as Floria Tosca
David Esteban as Mario Cavaradossi
Boaz Daniel as Baron Scarpia
Directed by Joshua Borths

with Matthew Bermudez as Spoletta
Gabriel Sanchez-Ortega as Cesare Angelotti
Dion Mazerolle as the Sacristan
George Theodorakopoulos as Sciarrone & Jailer

Back in March 2026, a music project for which I was blessed to add my voice was the winner of the JUNO award for Best Classical Album of the Year (Large Ensemble) - and now we’re taking this award-winning music on the road!

Axios Men’s Ensemble, Pro Coro Canada, and vocalists from around the world will take the stirring music of Benedict Sheehan to nine cities in ten days: Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Montreal, Ottawa, Kitchener-Waterloo, London, Hamilton and Toronto. We will also be joined by two premiere Canadian vocalists for what promises to be an amazing musical experience.

UKRAINIAN WAR REQUIEM
Composed by Benedict Sheehan
Featuring Axios Men’s Ensemble, Pro Coro Canada,
and vocalists from Ukraine and around the world
Conducted by Michael Zaugg
with John Tessier, tenor and
Andriana Chuchman, soprano

Handel’s Messiah is one of my favourite works to perform. It’s one of those works that I would make time to be available for. And while I would love to be performing Messiah as a featured soloist, singing in the chorus is incredible satisfying.

So grateful to Pro Coro Canada for inviting me to be a part of the contingent that will sing Messiah with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, this season!

HANDEL’S MESSIAH with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Jean-Marie Zeitouni
Featuring Carole-Ann Roussel, soprano
Mireille Lebel, mezzo-soprano
Andrew Haji, tenor
Alex Halliday, bass-baritone

The beloved fairytale of an impoverished girl, neglected and abused by her stepmother and stepsisters, to become princess of the land, comes to life! This will be my first time to perform this interpretation by Jules Massenet, and I’m super excited for it!

CINDERELLA by Jules Massenet
Conducted by Jacques Lacombe
Featuring Andriana Chuchman as Cinderella
Nora Sourouzian as Prince Charming
Allylson McHardy as the Stepmother
Phillip Addis as Pandolfe
Midori Marsh as the Fairy Godmother
Directed by Mieko Ouchi

With Katelyn Bird and Maria Milenic as the Stepsisters
Zoe McCormick as the Spirits
Gabriel Sanchez-Ortega as The King
Matthew Bermudez as Dean
George Theodorakopoulos as Superintendent and Prime Minister

Verdi’s adaptation of a Shakespearean tragedy follows the Moorish general Otello, whose mind is poisoned by his malicious ensign, Iago, into believe his innocent wife, Desdemona, is unfaithful. Otello is the latest Verdi opera that I have had the good fortune to be involved, following La traviata, Rigoletto, Macbeth, and Nabucco.

I am especially looking forward to sharing this stage with baritone Iain MacNeil, with whom I had the good fortune of spending five weeks in Austria at the prestigious Franz-Schubert-Institut. I’m really excited to see what Iain brings to the pivotal role of Iago for this production.

Verdi’s OTELLO
Conducted by Jonathan Brandani
Featuring Marcelo Puente as Otello
Anna Pompeeva as Desdemona
Iain MacNeil as Iago
Directed by Elizabeth Stepkowski Tarhan

with Adrian Kramer as Cassio
Simona Genga as Emilia
Gabriel Sanchez-Ortega as Ludovico
Matthew Bermudez as Roderigo
George Theodorakopoulos as Montano and a Herald