CALENDAR
Domoney Artists on Stage & Screen
UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS
2026
Aug 9
"Soirée Lyrique” – DIon Mazerolle performs favourite opera arias and ensembles with ItalFest Montreal
Aug 11
Soprano Natalya Gennadi returns to sing favourite Opera Hits with Toronto Concert Orchestra; Mark Shapiro, conductor
Aug 26, 28 & 29
Tenor Ernesto Ramirez stars as Turiddu in Mascagni’s verismo classic Cavalleria Rusticana with Alberta Vocal Arts; Carlos Foggin, Conductor
Aug 28 & 29
Baritones Clarence Frazer and Jorell Williams star as Figaro and Count Almaviva in Opera Kelowna’s mainstage production of Mozart’s comic masterpiece The Marriage of Figaro; Rosemary Thomson, conductor
Sep 29
Maeve Palmer, Melody Courage, Marion Newman and Asitha Tennekoon perform in Missing, the acclaimed chamber opera by Métis playwright Marie Clements and JUNO award-winning composer Brian Current. Presented by Kingston’s Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, Missing gives voice, in English and Gitksan, to stories of missing and murdered Indigenous women. Timothy Long, Music Director
Oct 16, 18 & 24
Dion Mazerolle opens the Fall Season of Calgary Opera as the Sacristan in Puccini’s political thriller Tosca. Jonathan Brandani, Conductor; Joshua Borths, Director
Oct 30
Jorell Williams is a guest soloist in Orff’s exciting Carmina Burana with Chorus Niagara and Bergmann Piano Duo; Kathleen Allen, conductor
Nov 27
Hillary Tufford debuts as a soloist with Mandle Philharmonic in Mahler’s monumental Symphony #8 at Roy Thomson Hall, conducted by Mandle Cheung
Nov 28
Maeve Palmer is a guest soloist in Rutter’s Magnificat with Collingwood ChoralWorks; Brian Rae, conductor
Dec 3 -- 6
Clarence Frazer is the bass soloist in Handel’s Messiah with Windsor Symphony; James Sommerville, conductor
Dec 4 & 6
Jennifer Taverner, Maria Soulis and Giles Tomkins are guest soloists in Messiah with Hamilton Philharmonic and Bach Elgar Choir; James Kahane, conductor
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Dec 11
Tenor Asitha Tennekoon is a guest soloist with Elmer Iseler Singers in Messiah; Lydia Adam, conductor
Dec 12
Maeve Palmer and Dion Mazerolle are guest soloists in Messiah with St. James Cathedral; Thomas Bell, conductor
Dec 12
Giles Tomkins is the Bass soloist in Messiah with Grand Philharmonic Choir and Kitchener- Waterloo Symphony; Mark Vuorinen, conductor
Dec 12
Hillary Tufford is the Alto soloist in Messiah with Vancouver Bach Choir; Leslie Dala, conductor www.vancouverbachchoir.com
2027
Jan 23 & 24
Caitlin Wood is Despina, Asitha Tennekoon is Ferrando, Jorell Williams is Guglielmo and Giles Tomkins is Don Alfonso in Windsor Symphony Orchestra’s semi-staged production of Mozart’s dark comedy Cosi fan tutte, conducted by James Sommerville
Jan 27 & Feb 1
Mezzo-soprano Marion Newman performs works from the latest incarnation of the North American Indigeneous Songbook in a program curated by pianist, conductor and composer Timothy Long in association with the Plimpton Foundation, at Perelman Art Center in New York City and at Eastman School of Music, Rochester NY
Feb 26
Clarence Frazer is the baritone soloist in John Estacio’s deeply moving ode to peace, The Houses Stand Not Far Apart, with Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, and Chorus; Evan Mitchell, conductor
Mar 8, 9 & 10
Tenor Ernesto Ramirez debuts with Symphony New Brunswick in Verdi’s dramatic Requiem, touring to Moncton, St. John and Fredericton; Mélanie Léonard, conductor
Apr 24 & 25
Jorell Williams is the baritone soloist in Gounod’s St. Cecilia Mass and Fauré's Requiem, a special co-presentation with Niagara Symphony & Chorus Niagara; Kathleen Allan, guest conductor
May 1 -- 27
Marion Newman joins a stellar cast in the world premiere of Empire of Wild by Ian Cusson. Based on Cherie Dimaline’s bestselling novel, as haunting as it is heart-pounding. The tale of a woman searching for her missing husband in Georgian Bay is a fusion of myth, mystery, and loss. The electric score thrillingly evokes the myth of the Rogarou, a Métis werewolf-like figure that stalks both the forest and the human heart. Johannes Debus, conductor; Yvette Nolan, director
May 2
Maeve Palmer, Asitha Tennekoon and Giles Tomkins are guest soloists in “Mozart in 3D” with Off Centre Music Salon, singing favourite excerpts from Mozart’s beloved operas
May 15
Maeve Palmer stars as Elizabeth D’Aulnière in Charles Wilson’s Canadian opera Kamouraska, based on Anne Hébert’s acclaimed 1970 novel. Set in 19th Century Québèc, Kamouraska tells the story of Elisabeth who conspires with her love, an American doctor, to kill her husband, the seigneur of Kamouraska in the Bas Saint-Laurent region; Robert Cooper, conductor
May 29
Caitlin Wood, Asitha Tennekoon and Jorell Williams are guest soloists in Carmina Burana with Cantabile Choirs of Kingston; Geoffrey Sirett, conductor
