Concours musical international de Montréal

Soprano Xueli Zhou (China, 1992) performs ‘Exsultate jubilate – Allegro’ from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s motet Exsultate, jubilate (Exult, rejoice), K. 165; ‘Où va la jeune Hindoue’ from Léo Delibes’s opera Lakmé; and ‘Glitter and Be Gay’ from Leonard Bernstein’s operetta Candide, during the first round of the Voice Edition of the Concours musical international de Montréal 2022 (CMIM). This performance was recorded at the Bourgie Hall of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Mezzo-soprano Valerie Eickhoff (Germany, 1996) performs ‘Es ist vollbracht’ from J. S. Bach’s St. John’s Passion, BWV 245; ‘Non so più’ from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro; and ‘Una voce poco fa’ from Gioachino Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, during the first round of the Voice Edition of the Concours musical international de Montréal 2022 (CMIM). This performance was recorded at the Bourgie Hall of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Baritone Hugo Laporte (Canada) performs ‘O vin, dissipe la tristesse’ from Ambroise Thomas’s opera Hamlet; ‘Vy tak pechalny … Ya vas lyublyu’ from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s opera The Queen of Spades; and ‘Cruda, funesta smania … La pietade in suo favore’ from Gaetano Donizetti’s tragic opera Lucia di Lammermoor, during the first round of the Voice Edition of the Concours musical international de Montréal 2022 (CMIM). This performance was recorded at the Bourgie Hall of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Mezzo-soprano Simone McIntosh (Canada, 1991) performs ‘A corri! Vola! … Quest’improvviso tremito’ from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Lucio Silla; ‘Die Nachtigall’ from Alban Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder; and ‘Naqui’all affanno … Non piu mesta’ from Gioachino Rossini’s opera Cinderella, during the first round of the Voice Edition of the Concours musical international de Montréal 2022 (CMIM). This performance was recorded at the Bourgie Hall of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Soprano Anna-Sophie Neher (Canada, 1990) performs ‘Da tempeste’ from George Frideric Handel’s opera Giulio Cesare; ‘Ach, ich fühl’s’ from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Die Zauberflöte; and ‘En proie à la tristesse’ from Gioachino Rossini’s comic opera Le comte Ory, during the first round of the Voice Edition of the Concours musical international de Montréal 2022 (CMIM). This performance was recorded at the Bourgie Hall of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Soprano Lauren Margison (Canada, 1992) performs ‘Tu che di gel sei cinta’ from Giacomo Puccini’s opera Turandot; ‘Embroidery in childhood’ from Benjamin Britten’s opera Peter Grimes; and ‘Ah! Je ris’ from Charles Gounod’s opera Faust, during the first round of the Voice Edition of the Concours musical international de Montréal 2022 (CMIM). This performance was recorded at the Bourgie Hall of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Bass-baritone Vladyslav Buialskyi (Ukraine, 1997) performs ‘Quand la flamme de l’amour’ from Georges Bizet’s opera La jolie fille de Perth; ‘Madamina, il catalogo è questo’ from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni; and ‘Schweig, schweig’ from Carl Maria von Weber’s opera The Marksman, during the first round of the Voice Edition of the Concours musical international de Montréal 2022 (CMIM). This performance was recorded at the Bourgie Hall of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Soprano Sarah Dufresne (Canada, 1994) performs ‘Ach, ich fühl’s’ from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Die Zauberflöte; ‘Emily’s Goodbye’ from Ned Rorem’s opera Our Town; and ‘Adieu, dit-il, ayez foi!’ from Ambroise Thomas’s opera Hamlet, during the first round of the Voice Edition of the Concours musical international de Montréal 2022 (CMIM). This performance was recorded at the Bourgie Hall of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Baritone Bryan Murray (USA, 1989) performs ‘Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen’ from Erich Korngold’s opera Die tote Stadt; ‘Papagena Papagena Papagena!’ from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Die Zauberflöte; and ‘E fra quest’ansie in eterno vivrai?’ from Ruggero Leoncavallo’s opera Pagliacci, during the first round of the Voice Edition of the Concours musical international de Montréal 2022 (CMIM). This performance was recorded at the Bourgie Hall of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.