Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C6
FREE
Free Main Floor returns on for the summer 2024 with live performances, educational activities for kids, and access to Royal Ontario Museum’s expansive first floor—all for free! Opera Atelier is thrilled to be back as a live presenter for these series of music and art in the beautiful Currelly Gallery of the ROM every Thursday in August.
For more information, please visit: https://www.rom.on.ca/en/free-main-floor-2024
Anna Sharpe has performed internationally with Opera Atelier both at the Royal Opera of Versailles in Paris and at the Harris Theatre, Chicago. Some favourite opera credits include Dido in Dido and Aeneas, Zulma in L’Italiana in Algeri, Ann in Hatfield’s Ann and Seamus at the Copenhagen Opera House and the Cork Opera House, and Nardil in Rob Ford; The Opera.
Christopher Bagan is a versatile artist, equally at home on modern and historical keyboard instruments. He is in high demand as a collaborator, chamber musician and bassocontinuo specialist. He has performed with many of the leading baroque singers, instrumentalists and conductors in North America and abroad. Christopher is particularly active in the field of baroque opera, working as the assistant conductor at Opera Atelier and as coach and repetiteur at the Canadian Opera Company. In 2015-16 Christopher was the Early Keyboard instructor at Case Western Reserve University and the head of Harpsichord at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He is currently on Faculty at the University of Toronto, working with the students in the historical performance program. He is also on faculty as a historical keyboard coach in the Canadian Opera Company’s elite Ensemble training program.