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Autumn 2025 is hotting up!
I will be in the Toronto City Opera production of that wonderful creation by Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Pagliacci. Look for me amongst the singing villagers.
I'm also taking part in the Hart House Singers Fall Term Concert, SACRED WINTER - A collection of wondrous songs. The songs wil be a perfect, though temporary, relief for our currently ailing and imperfect world.
Mustn't forget the evening of Carmina, Carols & An Ode To Joy with MandlePhil at MAC, and then the following week at Koerner Hall.
Before all that, I will be singing Martin Palmeri's magnificent MisaTango. I do love this piece. I'll sing it as often as possible, please. You may remember that I sang this wonderful work in June, in NYC, with the composer himself!
Last but not least, just a few days before Christmas, I will be singing, in full voice, the magnetic and majestic masterpiece by that gregarious composer George Frideric Handel. Yes, it's called The Messiah. He loved sopranos, did Mr Handel, and we sopranos still love him.
Suzanne Tevlin –Soprano 1
I grew up singing Irish songs with my father, a tenor. We sang a cappella. Because of my singing my parents acquired a piano and I started piano lessons at the age of 6. I did my rudiments, harmony, and counterpoint exams, and was preparing for my ARCT in piano when I moved to Europe to study fine art.
I speak French, did some graduate work in Italy, and sing in German, mainly because I love Mahler. My Latin is fine, having studied it in school. I sang folk and jazz around Ottawa as a teen. I continue to take dance classes.
In 2000 I returned to Canada and joined various auditioned choirs, including the 1st mixed gender Chamber Choir at St James Cathedral.
During the early 2000's I danced, and/or sang, as a "special skills" performer in several American movies produced in Toronto at that time.
During the 1st summer of the pandemic, I was accepted as a student in the Baroque Soloist Summer Programme, at the Victoria Conservatory of Music, run virtually by Dan Taylor. This turned out to be an important time for me because it was then that I realized I wanted to sing more seriously.
Between 2018 and 2021 I studied voice with Susan Suchard.
During the pandemic I had a few lessons with Joel Katz.
Recently I have had a few lessons with Stephanie Bogle.
I'm currently working with Stuart Graham.
At The Moment:
Hart House Singers, summer 2024
Hart House Singers. Ralph Vaughan Williams, The Sea Symphony, fall. 2024
Lead Soprano sub., various venues, Toronto
Beethoven 9th Concert (MandlePhil) at Koerner Hall, November 29, 2024
Mozart’s Requiem in Vienna, December 5, 2024
Mahler 2 Concert (MandlePhil) – currently in prep for 2025
Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, Hart House Great Hall, March, 2025
Faure’s Requiem at Carnegie Hall NYC in June, 2025
Palmeri's Misa a Buenos Aires (MisaTango), at Carnegie Hall NYC in June, 2025
Montréal Summer Choral Academy Concert, McGill's Redpath Hall, June, 2025
Soloist, Songs My Mother Taught Me, HHSS, directed by David Arnot Johnston, July 2025
Pagliacci, Toronto City Opera, Bathurst Centre for Culture & Arts - Nov 19, 22, 23, 2025
HHS, SACRED WINTER - A collection of wondrous songs, Nov. 23, 2025
MandlePhil, Carmina, Carols, & an Ode to Joy, MAC - November 27, 2025
MandlePhil, Carmina, Carols, & an Ode to Joy, Koerner Hall, December 4, 2025
Soloist:
September 20, 2014 - Faure Requiem, Pie Jesu & In Paradisum at my mother’s funeral
September 20, 2014 - Schubert's Ave Maria, also at my mother's funeral
November 20, 2022- soloist for Schubert Mass in Ab, CAMMAC, Matthew Otto
March 22, 2023 - Soloist for Beethoven’s Mass in C, CAMMAC, Robert Cooper
April 26, 2023 - Soloist “Singing The Bard” CAMMAC, directed by Maria Case
March 24, 2024, Soloist, Beethoven’s 9th, 4th movement- CAMMAC, David Arnot Johnston
June 7, 2024, Soloist, Trois oiseaux du paradis-Ravel, HHS concert, David Arnot Johnston
September 22, 2024, Soloist, Handel’s Semele, CAMMAC, directed by David Fallis
July 13, 2025, Soloist, Songs My Mother Taught Me, directed by David Arnot Johnston
April 19, 2026, Soloist, Jenkins' The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace, CAMMAC
Other Vocal Events:
Opera for All - concert Koerner Hall, March 28, 2018
Toronto Summer Festival Academy Choir, 2018 & 2022
“Oklahoma” pandemic zoom production. I sang “Surry with A Fringe”.
Virtual Messiah 2020 - One World Baroque
Baroque Soloist Summer Programme – 2020 - Victoria Conservatory of Music
Mozart Requiem, Vienna, December 5, 2024 – Director Jeremy Jackman
Carmina Burana, Hart House Great Hall, March 22, 23, 2025 -Director David Arnot-Johnston
Fauré Requiem, NYC, June 8, 2025, Director Jean-Sébastien Vallée MisaTango NYC, June 8, 2025, Directed by the composer, Martin Palmeri Montréal Summer Choral Academy at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University -June, 2025, under the leadership of Jean-Sébastien Vallée
Montréal Summer Choral Academy Concert at Redpath Hall, June 21-Director JS Vallée
Songs My Mother Taught Me, HHSS concert, July 2025, directed by David Arnot Johnston
Pagliacci, Toronto City Opera, Bathurst Centre for Culture & Arts - Nov 19, 21, 22, 2025
HHS Concert, SACRED WINTER, Nov. 23, 2025, directed by David Arnot Johnston
MandlePhil, Carmina & Carols, MAC - November 27, 2025
MandlePhil, Carmina & Carols, Koerner Hall, December 4, 2025
Current Rep. (September 2025)
Ah! Non credea mirarti - Bellini
Oh! Quante volte – Bellini
Ma rendi pur contento
- Bellini
Malinconia - Bellini
Signore ascolta - Puccini
Mio Babbino Caro - Puccini
Mi chiamano Mimi – Puccini
Senza Mama - Puccini
Suefzer, Thranen, Kummer, Noth - Bach
Zerfliessse mein Herze – Bach
Erbarme dich, mein Gott – Bach
Caro Nome-Verdi
Bist du bei mir – Stolze/Bach
Ruhe Sanft (Zaide) – Mozart
Pamina’s Aria - Mozart
Laudate Dominum - Mozart
Et Incarnatus Est – Mozart
Dans Un Bois - Mozart
Venere Bella – Handel
Se Pieta-Handel
V’adoro pupille-Handel
Piangero-Handel
Ombra mai fu-Handel
Lascia-Handel
Credete al mio dolore-Handel
Care Selve-Handel
Let my thanks be paid-Handel
Il mio bel foco – Marcello/Conti
Madre diletta – Porta
Anklange - Brahms
Ave Dulcissima Maria - Gesualdo
La Maja Dolorosa I, II, III - Granados
Oft denk’ich (Kindertotenlieder IV) - Mahler
Ich bin der welt-Mahler
Nur wer die sehn-suchkennt – Schubert
Ave Maria - Schubert
An Sylvia - Schubert
Um Mitternacht - Zelter
Dei Trauernde – Brahms
Oh! Quand je dors - Liszt
A Chloris - Hahn
Néère - Hahn
Si mes vers avaient des ailes - Hahn
Nuit d’étoiles – Debussy
La vie en rose – Piaf/Louiguy
Trois oiseaux du paradis – Ravel
Dirait on - Morten Lauridsen
In Paradisum –Fauré
Pie Jesu – Fauré
Le Secret – Fauré
Au bord de l'eau - Fauré
Après un rêve - Fauré
"C" - Poulenc
Songs My Mother Taught Me (Czech & English)- Dvorak
Must the winter come so soon? - Barber
Sure on this shining night - Barber
Heart, we will forget him – Copland
Alone – Copland
Down by The Salley Garden – Britten
Gartan Mother’s Lullaby – Trad - Hughes ?
There was a child named Bernadette – Jennifer Warnes/Leonard Cohen
In Preparation:
Depuis le jour - Charpentier
Dove Sono - Mozart
Pale et Blonde - Thomas
Les Berceaux – Fauré
La mort d'Ophélie - Berlioz
Le spectre de la rose - Berlioz
La Captive - Berlioz
Au Cemetière - Berlioz
Le ciel est par-dessus le toit - D de Séverac
Hier - Poulenc
C'est ainsi que tu es - Poulenc
Les Heures Claires (various) - Nadia Boulanger
Hymne à l’amour – Piaf
My love is in a light attire – James Joyce
Che faro senza Euridice? - Gluck
King David – Howells
The Widow Bird – Howells
That Younge Child, Balulalow - Benjamin Britten, A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28
Pastorale - Copland
Camille Claudel: Into The Fire - La Petite Châtelaine –
Jake Heggie
Nocturne, op 13 – Samuel Barber
On this Island: Nocturne - Benjamin Britten
Standing as I do before God (The Edith Cavell Song) – Cecilia McDowell
Marietta's Song - Korngold
Op. 2, Schenk mir deinen golden Kamm - Jesus Bettelt - Schoenberg
Morgen - Strauss
Romance de Mignon - Duparc
Silent Love - Amy Beach
Je demande à l'oiseau - Amy Beach Les Hiboux (Baudelaire) - Déodat de Séverac
