A collaborative artist: Kristin Hoff and the Mécénat Musica Prix Goyer

Interview

When I ask Hoff what it means to her to be lauded as a collaborative artist, she admits that the inclusion of the word 'collaborative' in the Prix Goyer is the only way she feels comfortable receiving such an honour.

Corinne Winters: 'Humans do stupid stuff and I think art should reflect that.'

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We don't sing with good technique just for the fun of it. It's there so that it frees us up to be great artists. The technique has to be there first, so that we can let go and actually do the rest.

Latonia Moore: 'It's our job to keep pushing things forward.'

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'When [you ask me why] I sing, I get a wonderful release, a release of stress, an emotional release. I also I like the giving to people and I like making them feel goosebumps. I like making them feel emotional, want to cry or want to throw something. I like eliciting an emotional response from them.'

Expect the Spanish Inquisition at Heroic Opera's Don Carlo

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"The characters are flawed, but some take those flaws and make their world better, and others use it to the detriment of others. Power doesn't have to be evil, but the intersection of power, greed, and relentless injustice is terrifying."

David Lang: high art in lowercase

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"When I started giving my pieces silly titles and putting them all in lowercase, it took the pressure off me to be a genius, and then I could concentrate on just writing my music."

Marina Costa-Jackson: "You just have to do it, a lot."

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"Puccini really captured the raw emotionality of a mother. He always wrote his ladies so well but specifically, with Suor Angelica, there's a deep sorrow there that makes it very interesting to portray. Being a mother now, it gives me a new perspective on it. It connects on a deeper level. Frankly it's a very hard aria to get through with dry eyes."

"A very original genius": playing Frida Kahlo at San Diego Opera

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"Frida is very well portrayed in this music, which is fabulous," says Paz. "The music reflects the pain that she was suffering. It reflects the great courage that she had in life. She was a kind of mischievous, rebel woman. That's very clear in the score and musically."

Calgary Concert Opera returns with regal love triangle

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"This production of Roberto Devereux will be a really intimate performance for the audience," says King. "In this format, you'll really feel the emotions Donizetti has woven so brilliantly in his music."

Talking with drag queens: Rosé

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“When you think of the voice as having, like, the sound of an emotion instead of just sounding pretty, that's a really exciting thing to do. It makes it more like a mime performance than just lip syncing.”

Magic everywhere in SDO's Aging Magician

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"After years of creating work after work, it becomes your life," he says about why he is an artist. "Initially, I was drawn to things just because I was fascinated by ideas. The traditional world was not where I belonged. I knew I wanted to be in the arts and I had an impulse to perform."