BRUNO ROY

baritone/baryton

Bio

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A recent graduate of the Canadian Opera Company's Ensemble studio program, Montreal-born baritone Bruno Roy is an acclaimed performer of opera and a broad repertoire of works with orchestra and art song. During his time at the COC he appeared on the mainstage as Second Priest in The Magic Flute, the Jailer in Tosca, as Louis Schmidt and Dr. François Roy in Louis Riel, Lamoral in Arabella, Marullo in Rigoletto and also appeared in The Nightingale and Other Short Stories.

Other recent credits include Marcello in La bohème (Highlands Opera Studio), Belcore in The Elixir of Love (Atelier lyrique de l'Opéra de Montréal and Opera McGill); John Brooke in Little Women and Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro (Opera McGill); Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette (Canadian Vocal Arts Institute) and L'Horloge/Le chat in L'enfant et les sortilèges (Opera on the Avalon).

The 2019 season was marked by a german debut with Oper Frankfurt in Capriccio in addition to performing in many children's operas (Hansel and Gretel, La bohème) and in concert with the company. In May 2019, he was the baritone soloist in Carmina Burana with the Ottawa Choral Society under the baton of Jean-Sébastien Vallée. Other recent credits include roles debuts with Against the Grain Theatre: Baryton-Martin in Vivier’s Kopernikus and Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro.

Bruno is a Recipient of the 2019 Eva & Marc Stern Fellowship at SongFest and a Western Canada District Winner of the 2021 Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions. He will be making his return to the operatic stage in 2021 as Zurga in Les pêcheurs de perles with Jeunesses Musicales du Canada.

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Schedule

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Songfest

Start date: May 24, 2019
End date: June 25, 2019
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Songfest @ Colburn
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Bruno is a Recipient of the 2019 Eva & Marc Stern Professional Fellowship at SongFest
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Carmina Burana

Date: May 12, 2019
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: St. Joseph Church (Ottawa)
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with Caitlin Wood, John MacMaster, Ensemble Caelis Academy, Matthew Larkin, Christopher Gaudreault, Zak Pulak and Jean-Sébastien Vallée

Kopernikus

Start date: April 4, 2019
End date: April 13, 2019
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Theatre Passe Muraille (Toronto)
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Baryton-martin in one of Canada’s greatest operas

with Danielle MacMillan, Jonelle Sills, Nathalie Paulin, Krisztina Szabó, Dion Mazerolle and Alain Coulombe

Please see ‘More info’ for a complete list of dancers and musicians (who are also staged with the singers) along with the creative and techincal team.

Oper to go

Start date: March 13, 2019
End date: March 14, 2019
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Holzfoyer @ Oper Frankfurt
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Count Almaviva in Beaujolais Beaumarchais, a truncated version of Le nozze di Figaro for young adults. See “More info” for ticket details and cast info.

La bohème für Kinder

Start date: February 23, 2019
End date: March 2, 2019
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Holzfoyer @ Oper Frankfurt
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Marcello in a new interpretation of La bohème in German with Puccini’s music and dialog

Capriccio

Start date: October 6, 2018
End date: November 4, 2018
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Oper Frankfurt
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Diener in Capriccio, a remount of Brigitte Fassbaender’s WW2 French-resistance inspired production of this Richard Strauss opera

KOPERNIKUS

Winner of 2019 Dora Mavor Moore Award for "Outstanding Performance of an Ensemble"

Contact

bruno@brunoroy.ca

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