Julie Nesrallah Mezzo-soprano
Bio
Miss Nesrallah is frequently featured
on CBC Radio and National Public Radio,
and is currently the host of Tempo, CBC
Radio 2's flagship national classical music program.
Julie Nesrallah is an extremely versatile singer and actress, at ease in all styles who has achievements and standards of musical excellence established across the continent and abroad. She dazzles audiences with her rich tone, engaging personality and deeply expressive communicative skills and is regularly cast in principal roles by leading opera companies across North America and abroad. Roles include Carmen (Carmen), Isabella (LItaliana in Algeri), Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Angelina (La Cenerentola), Der Komponist (Ariadne auf Naxos), Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro), Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), Maddalena (Rigoletto), MegPage (Falstaff), Anita (West Side Story), Jocasta (Oedipus Rex), Miss Todd (Old Maid & the Thief), Dritte Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Queen Elizabeth (Maria Stuarda), Queen Henrietta (I Puritani), First Maid (Elektra), the Young Mozart (The Jewel Box) and the Old Woman (The Death of Enkidu).
Miss Nesrallah has been the recipient of many distinguished awards & prizes, including the Canada Council for the Arts Emerging Artist Award & Mid-Career Grant. She has also been invited to sing for several high profile events including the Opera Canada Awards honouring great Canadian achievement in opera, and An Evening for Peace in Montreal for Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan. In 2004,Miss Nesrallah was invited to perform for Her Royal Highness Princess Haya in Amman, Jordan, to launch an endowment fund for underprivileged girls to study music in Canada.
Miss Nesrallah has
participated in many
prestigious summer festivals
which include the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival, the Macau International Music Festival, the Vancouver Chamber Festival, Festival Vancouver, the Boré-Arts Summer Music Festival, the Huntsville Arts Festival, the Orford Summer Festival, the Guelph Spring Festival, Les Concerts des Iles-du-Bic, the Lanaudière International Music Festival, Nova Scotias Musique Royale and the Indian River Summer Music Festival in Prince Edward Island.
Symphonic Engagements
for Miss Nesrallah have included performances with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Ottawa Symphony, the Laval Symphony, the Kingston Symphony, the Victoria Symphony, the Cedar Rapids Symphony, the Charleston Symphony, lOrchestre Métropolitain, l'Orchestre Leonardo da Vinci, the Toronto Philharmonia and the Plattsburgh Symphony. Renowned ensembles include the St. Lawrence String Quartet, the Orford Wind Quintet, Thirteen Strings, Quatuor Arthur-Leblanc, the Borealis String Quartet, La Pietà, the Montreal Guitar Trio and the Molinari String Quartet who recorded a CD with Miss Nesrallah as the multi-role soloist for R. Murray Schafers tour de force, Beauty and the Beast, which won the 2002/2003 Opus Prize for Record of the Year, Modern and Contemporary Category.
