Spencer.Britten
Tenor.Dancer.Actor
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Canadian triple threat Spencer Britten is currently based in Montréal, Canada as a member of L'Atelier Lyrique de l'Opéra de Montréal.
Spencer feels at home in both the Operatic and Musical Theatre repertoire and his recent projects have allowed him to enjoy the utilization of his extensive dance and opera training. Recently, Spencer has been a Young Artists at The Glimmerglass Festival and L'Atelier Lyrique de l'Opéra de Montréal. To start off the 2019-2020 season, Spencer will be singing Triquet in Eugene Onegin with Opéra de Montréal. Spencer has been selected to compete in the final rounds of the Neue Stimmen International Voice Competition in Gütersloh, Germany. He will also reprise his role as Léon in The Ghosts of Versailles at Château de Versailles Spectacles (The Royal Opera of Versailles.)
Spencer has been a winner/recipient of The Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation For Young Canadian Opera Singers, The Vancouver Opera Guild Career Development Grant, The Vancouver Opera Chorus Endowment Career Development Grant, The Joseph and Melitta Kandler Scholarship for the Advanced Music Study, and The Barbara Eves-Motomochi Memorial Fund. He thanks the generous opera communities of Vancouver and Montreal for their constant support.
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Du classique à l’opéra
From Sinfonia Lanaudiere:
At first, the talented musicians of La Sinfonia de Lanaudière, under the baton of Maestro Stéphane Laforest, will perform on pieces all inspired or related to the art of opera: The preludes (symphonic poem no.3) by F. Liszt, Intermezzo (Cavalleria rusticana) by P. Mascagni, Les Maîtres chanteurs de Nuremberg, by R. Wagner and La Gioconda (Dance of the Hours) by A. Ponchielli.
Secondly, the singers Elizabeth Polese, soprano, Spencer Britten, tenor, and Jean-Philippe Mc Clish, bass baritone, from the Atelier lyrique de l'Opéra de Montréal, accompanied by La Sinfonia by Lanaudière, will perform extracts choose operas by Donizetti, notably La Fille du Régiment and L'Élixir d'amour.
Whether you are a connoisseur or an amateur, this concert is for you. Come discover or revisit great works of this exceptional lyric art.
This concert is made possible thanks to the generous support of BMO Financial Group.
With Soprano Elizabeth Polese, conductor Nicolas Ellis, and Orchestre de l'Agora during the Workshop portion of our Cabaret Bel Canto. Unfortunately this duet will not be featured in the Cabaret Bel Canto, but it will be on the program for the Du classique à l'opéra concert with Sinfonia de Lanaudière. Looking forward to presenting a lot of Bel Canto this month.
