Soprano Eve-Lyn de la Haye from Victoria, British Columbia, is a young artist of the highest caliber. Her lyric-coloratura voice has been hailed as “a marvelous instrument that is both technically strong and projects naturally” (Bill Rankin - Opera Canada). She is a thrilling and versatile young singer excelling in many genres from early music to contemporary works.

Eve-Lyn began the 09/10 season in Tel Aviv, Israel, in the role of Tytania in Britten’s opera A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the International Vocal Arts Institute.  She then sang sixteen performances as Olympia in the Jeunesses Musicales du Canada’s production of Offenbach’s Les Contes D’Hoffmann which toured Québec and Ontario. Most recently, Eve-Lyn was awarded a career development grant from the Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation. Upcoming engagements include a concert tour of World Premieres in Mexico and Toronto with Soundstreams Canada and Mexico’s Tambuco Percussion Ensemble, the role of Anna in Boieldieu’s opera La Dame Blanche with Opera in Concert in Toronto and Handel’s Messiah with the Victoria Symphony Orchestra.


In the fall of 2008, Eve-Lyn was invited to the Britten-Pears Festival in Aldeburgh, England, where she sang the role of Lucia in Britten’s opera The Rape of Lucretia to critical acclaim. In early 2009 she sang Echo in Calgary Opera’s production of Ariadne auf Naxos along side Wendy Nielsen, Richard Margison and Tracy Dahl which was broadcast on CBC Radio’s Saturday Afternoon at the Opera. Other recent opera credits with Calgary Opera include Aurore in Massenet’s Le Portrait de Manon and Sarah in the Canadian premiere of The Ballad of Baby Doe.

Eve-Lyn made her International debut in the summer of 2007 as Julie Jordan in Rogers and Hammerstein’s Carousel with The Boston Pops at Symphony Hall. In an ABC television broadcast conductor Keith Lockhart exclaimed, “Eve-Lyn’s voice is gloriously compelling.” She was also awarded a two month fellowship at the Tanglewood Music Center where she coached various opera scenes with James Levine, sang in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with the Mark Morris Dance Group, and performed art song, chamber music, and opera as part of the Tanglewood Music Festival in the summer of 2007
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Eve-Lyn has performed frequently with Soundstreams Canada including a CBC Radio recording of Six Voices for Sirens by Ana Sokolovic and several major works by Steve Reich including Daniel Variations and Proverb. Other concert highlights include Messiah, Ein Deutsches Requiem, Carmina Burana, recitals with the Aldeburgh Connection in Toronto and a concert series at the Bayfield Festival in 2009.

Eve-Lyn is a graduate of the Victoria Conservatory of Music’s Diploma in Music Program and the University of Toronto’s Opera Division where she was the recipient of the Paul Baker Opera Graduation Scholarship in 2007. Her primary teachers include Selena James, Mary Morrison and Tracy Dahl.

 



REPERTOIRE

OPERA

BIZET
Leïla - Les Pêcheurs de Perles
Frasquita - Carmen

BRITTEN

Tytania – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Lucia – The Rape of Lucretia

DONIZETTI
Marie – La Fille de Regiment
Norina – Don Pasquale

HANDEL
Morgana - Alcina

MASSENET
Aurore – Le Portrait de Manon
Sophie - Werther 

MOORE
Baby Doe – The Ballad of Baby Doe

MOZART
Susanna/ Barbarina – Le Nozze di Figaro
Despina – Cosi fan Tutte
Zerlina – Don Giovanni
Papagena – Die Zauberflöte

OFFENBACH
Olympia – Les Contes D’Hoffmann

PURCELL
Belinda – Dido and Aeneas

J. STRAUSS
Adele – Die Fledemaus

R. STRAUSS
Naiade/Echo – Ariadne auf Naxos
Sophie – Der Rosenkavalier

THOMAS
Philline - Mignon

VERDI
Oscar – Un Ballo in Maschera
Nanetta – Falstaff

 


CONCERT

BACH
St John Passion
St Matthew Passion
Cantata 51

BRAHMS
Ein Deutches Requiem

FAURE
Requiem

HANDEL
Messiah

HAYDN
Mass in time of war
The Creation

MOZART
Coronation Mass
Exultate Jubilate

ORFF
Carmina Burana

REICH
Daniel Variations
Proverb

ROSSINI
Petite Messe Sollenelle

RUTTER
Requiem

VILLA-LOBOS
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5

VIVALDI
Gloria

 

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