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A X3 UW Arts Centre Gallery Gallery hours: Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Modern Languages Building _ and Sunday 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 pm. University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario LT NZL 3G1 (519) 885â€"1211, ear. 2439 I N Kâ€"W Opera Guild hoids its Valentine Dinner with Music Feb. 13 at the Valhallaâ€"Inn. Tickets are $28, call 885â€"3595. In conjunction with that dinner, local resident Rae Rhodes offers these comments on the Kâ€"W music scene in the second of a twoâ€"part opinion piece. ur young singer may have some stage experience, a degree in vocal performance from a university, but this is not yet enough. To have a career this is not yet enough. To have a career presupposes that the voice has outstanding qualities, not only must the singer have superb technique, but a natural good voice to start with. At age 22, the voice may be quite small, but by age 28 it may have gained enormously in strength and volume as muscles develop; it doesn‘t just happen overnight. Our young singer must be able to act, move, dance, and hardâ€"working, patient, tenacious and ambiâ€" tious. And he needs to have money for voice lessons over a period of years. What happens if our young singer doesn‘t have all it takes? Many performance graduâ€" ates become teachers, either privately, or in the school system, and as many also have piano qualifications, they are doubly equipped to earn a living. Others find employment as church soloists, choir directors, typists, or wait on tables to pay for further voice lesâ€" AVY B Canadian Opera Company (COC). This is a sporadic job, as only seven operas are staged: this season in September/October, January/February, April and June. Not all operas require a large chorus, so a singer may only be hired for three operas, yet the rehearsals are in the daytime for maybe 3 weeks at a time, making it very hard to hold down any usual type of job. â€" Their teacher may encourage them not to give up, but to audition and keep knocking at the door. Is our stageâ€"struck singer being ‘ledâ€"on‘? Many voices are maturing through the 20s, and it might suddenly blossom into something wonderful ... or it might not. The route taken by some of our more successful singers has been through entering prestigious competitions, such as the Edward Johnson Music Competition, or the Young Mozart Singers Competition (of the Guelph Spring Festival and the COC respectively. Local winners of the first have been Anita Noelâ€"Antscherl, Donna Trifunovich, Kathleen Brett and Daria Salemka in recent years. Then the young singer can gain stage experience in opera in a small company like Canada Opera Piccola in Victoria, B.C. which has employed quite a few from Waterloo in the last 5 years. But there are pathetically few places where the young artist can train and be paid at the same time. he COC auditions across the country I to find the best voices for its Ensemâ€" ble. Similarly, L‘Atelier Lyrique de l‘opera de Montreal also auditions widely. Both opera training groups give their particiâ€" pants the chance of eventually singing roles with the parent company. Denis Giesbrecht and Christopher Coyea, both trained in Waterloo, are two of the eight artists in the ensemble, and Maureen Browne is at the Atelier. Ted Baerg was one of the original members An area rich in music Personal reflections on local scene â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1987 Opinion An exhibition of work by third year Fine Arts majors, University of Waterloo. Thursday, 19 February to Sunday, 29 March any local singers have found emâ€" Informal opening reception: Tuesday, 24 February at 5:00 p.m. in the Gallery. WHUW Arts Centre and unionized theatres are high. Mind you, if the audience expects the production to be lavish, the costs will be high. Thirdly, there is not the audience to support a full season, because of lack of tradition, lack of interest, or maybe easy availability of opera on TV. So we continue to train opera singers for other countries, or for the frustrating, anxâ€" ious, insecure and travelâ€"plagued life here. The best thing we can do for our singers is to support them, applaud their successes, underâ€" stand their difficulties and let them know that the home town which maybe nurtured their love of music is proud of them and remembers Europe, first for further training at Zurich Opera Studio for a year, and then to begin her career under contract with the Linz Opera in Austria, where she will have leading roles. Donna Trifunovich may find it hard to decide to return to Canada. At the moment it is impossible to make a comparable living here for three reasons. irstly, there are no opera companies which hve performances 30 or more weeks a year and employ their own singers on a regular basis for the leading roles. This just doesn‘t exist in North America. There are plenty opera administrators, (artisâ€" tic directors, secretaries, publicity managers) on annual contracts, but no opera singers apâ€" parently. There is a rare chance to hear baritone Ted Baerg, along with upâ€"andâ€"coming soprano Kathleen Brett who is training here, and mezzo Carol Ann Feldstein if you attend the Kâ€"W Opera Guild‘s Valentine Dinner with Music, Feb. 13, at the Vahalla Inn. The afterâ€"dinner music will be something special, and appealing to all tastes. Tickets are $28, for U Jacobs. His home is in Basel, Switzerland, where he is principal tenor with Basel Opera, now in his third fiveâ€"year contract. _ Secondly, the costs involved in mounting productions in our large, accoustically perfect information call 885â€"3595. repertory theatre. In Germany, Italy, Austria, France, Switâ€" zeriand and Britain, it is common to have a 10 month contract. This is very attractive to Canadian singers who wish to make a living in opera, and have some home life with their of the Ensemble, and has since built the beginning of a promising career in opera. He has sung with most opera companies in Canada â€" Victoria, Calgary, Edmonton, Hamâ€" ilton, Montreal, the COC in Toronto (where &hveekbemstheludlumleh ‘Die Fledermaus‘) two summer seasons with New York City Opera in leading roles, and next month he.ru on <a recital tour of California. This all takes him away from home and family for extened periods of time. lcaflbrevokec?&utheuhthllgworldls Teresa Stratas â€" but she left Canada a long time ago, and apparently wild horses could not drag her back to sing in the O‘Keefe, so we have to wait for the long expected Balâ€" let/Opera House to be built before we hear her Other singers have been abroad, and returned, like bass Don Garrard. Still others have stayed overseas, like Emile Belcourt of the English National Opera. In Europe, there are many opera companies which work year f local fame is Paul Frey from St. NTERTAINMENT CGUIgr SOME FIGHT FOR MONEY GLORY. HE‘S FIGHTING FOR HIS SON‘S LOVE. Bullas Travel in Kitchener to reserve your place on this worldâ€"class tour. September of 1987. For eight full days you will travel with an escort from the Museum through some of the most famous and beautiful wine regions of France and Germany. 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