Her career began on stage, predominantly in musical theatre, working across Canada and the U.S. Stephanie Sy (she/her) is a Treaty 1 Territory, Winnipeg-born theatre/film actor and producer. Or would they? Guest Reader: Stephanie Sy Besides, no one would want to listen to a cat sing about love. But she has sung on stage only once – and she was hidden the entire time. Alma longs to share the spotlight with her owner and let the whole world know her secret. Nobody knows about Alma’s talent except Madame Soso, the famous opera diva with whom she lives. And she isn’t just an aficionado she is a magnificent singer herself. Mus Perf from the University of Manitoba.ĭuring the pandemic she has homeschooled her five-year-old stepson and now is proud to say that she can sing the theme song from SpongeBob SquarePants from memory.Ĭlarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2009 The StoryĪlma is a cat who lives in Milan and loves opera. She was also featured recently in a national video project: Messiah/Complex.Īwards include the CBC Young Artist’s Development Prize, Audience Choice Award in the 2018 COC Center Stage Gala, and first prize in the 2018 Women’s Musical Club McLellan Competition.Īndrea is a graduate of the Opera School at the University of Toronto (M. Guest Reader: Andrea Lettīorn in Saskatchewan, but making her home in Winnipeg now, soprano Andrea Lett has performed on a number of stages across North America including for Manitoba Opera multiple times, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Saskatoon Opera, Manitoba Underground Opera, as well as covering roles for the opera companies of Edmonton, Santa Fe, and San Francisco. and at last Alma is given a chance to prove she is no ordinary animal.
But on the night of the big performance, Madame comes down with laryngitis. Madame doesn’t know Alma’s secret – in fact, she doesn’t pay Alma much attention at all. When Madame rehearses, Alma softly sings along.
The production runs until 24 June, but it is to be filmed and streamed, for release on Glyndebourne Encore in August.Written by Tess Weaver | Illustrated by Andréa WessonĬlarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002 The StoryĪlma the cat lives with Madame SoSo, an opera diva. The heroine sings “Je ne regrette rien” but the lovers’ exaltation is more moral than erotic its antithesis is her husband, the grim pastor Pasko (Philip Horst), who undergirds the wreckers’ inverted morality.
Smyth was an unashamedly European Late Romantic: a dash of folk singing is far from the ideals of Vaughan Williams and Henry Brewster’s libretto was here in Smyth’s preferred French.
Glyndebourne’s compelling production brings out parallels: the outsider, the offstage service, the mob, the ever present rolling sea - but, above all, under Robin Ticciati’s baton, with the Chorus and the London Philharmonic on superb form, the dramatic pace and force.Īt the heart of it are Cornish lovers, heroically sung by Karis Tucker and Rodrigo Porras Garulo so Wagner cannot be far away. THE plot of Dame Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers does no more for Chapel values in Cornwall than Britten’s Peter Grimes does for apprenticeships in Suffolk.
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