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Mezzo-soprano

Michal Aloni

Israel

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Michal Aloni is a singer, actress and aspiring stage director, praised for her warm, velvety tone and compelling performances. 

Born in Israel, Michal began studying music from an early age, playing the piano and singing along. After discovering her passion for opera in her mid twenties, she started a journey that led her to live, work and perform around the world, until finally finding her home in Canada. 

Recent operatic credits include: Sesto in La clemenza di Tito with Cosa Canada, Moabite woman in Ruth by R. Beckett with Arcady Ensemble, Ramiro in La Finta Giardiniera with and Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro with the UWOOpera workshop, Ottavia in L’incoronazione di Poppea with Barefoot-Opera, UK, Diana in La Calisto with Ensemble-Orquesta, UK, and an upcoming creation of the Mezzo role The Empress in G. Scalia’s Nevenotte with Corifea Collective, Montreal (spring 2024). Michal has been a member of the Canadian Opera Company Chorus since 2022 and is always so excited to return to perform at this incredible house.  


As an actress and director, Michal is particularly interested in exploring improvisational acting techniques as a tool for deeper understanding and interpretation of stories and characters in opera. She has trained in improv for performers with The Second City, Toronto and is currently studying and performing with Montreal Improv. Behind the scenes, she completed an internship in production and stage direction with Opera de Montreal (Madama Butterfly, D. Stephanie Havey), served as assistant Director with UWO Opera Workshop, (The Turn of the Screw and The Mikado, D. Michael Cavanagh) and also worked there as apprentice stage director, offering dramatic coachings and staging scenes. .
	
Michal holds a Masters of Music from the University of Western Ontario, and a Bachelors of Music from The Jerusalem Academy of Music. Awards include the Buchholtz and Gruss foundations, the Jennie Panitch Beckow memorial fund and the London Opera Guild, as well as prize winners at the 2019 LMSF competition and the 2019 Maritsa Brookes concerto Competition. Prior to pursuing classical music, Michal studied jazz piano and voice at the Rimon School of Jazz in Israel.

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Shir Ahava

from Act I of  Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss
Libretto: Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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