Julia LoRusso and Angela Gjurichanin are Two Sopranos, and so they’ll be presenting a recital at Toronto’s Heliconian Corridor on August 16, along with pianist Paul Digout. The live performance is a showcase for the 2 rising singers setting out on skilled careers.
This would be the second Two Sopranos live performance. “We already did our first two sopranos live performance in London in December,” Julia says. Each singers are graduates of the College of Western Ontario. Julia gradated spring of 2024, Angela in Spring of 2022.
Ludwig-Van talked to the 2 vocalists concerning the live performance, and their careers.
Two Sopranos: Julia LoRusso & Angela Gjurichanin
Julia LoRusso
Julia carried out as a soloist within the London Group Orchestra’s 2018 Younger Soloist Live performance and was featured in Opera Nuova’s Coast to Coast recital sequence in 2020.
She made her operatic debut as Lauretta in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi after which Morgana in Handel’s Alcina in 2021, and her her European debut on the Berlin Opera Academy in Germany, singing the function of Despina in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte. She has carried out with quite a lot of chamber ensembles and orchestras, and was a Prize Winner on the 2024 Toronto Mozart Vocal Competitors.
Angela Gjurichanin
Angela was born in Macedonia, the place she started finding out music on the age of six. After graduating from a music highschool in 2015, she immigrated to Saskatchewan along with her household. The adjustment to residing in Canada was tough, and when she started her undergraduate research in music on the College of Saskatchewan, she meant on specializing in principle and academia. It was a professor who satisfied her she was born to sing. She moved to London, Ontario, to finish her graduate research in music. A lot of that happened throughout the COVID pandemic.
She was one of many district winners of the distinguished Laffont Competitors in 2021, and gained the Gordon Wallis Opera Competitors in 2022. Since then, she’s carried out with the Regina Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera Studio of Weimar, and Grand River Opera, amongst others.
Collaborative pianist Paul Digout works extensively on the College of Western Ontario in addition to in different packages throughout Canada and in Europe, together with Opera NUOVA, Halifax Opera Workshop and the Yorkshire Opera workshop.
The Interview
“I’m from London, and I did my undergrad there as nicely in music,” Julia explains. She mentions devoted professors at Western, together with Jackalyn Quick, which Angela echoes.
What’s subsequent after the live performance? “I’m an incoming member of the Vancouver Opera Younger Artists’ Program,” LoRusso says. She’ll be heading out to the west coast for her residency in September.
“The live performance is considerably of a send-off,” Julia provides.
Angela will proceed pursuing her profession in London. “I’m doing the audition circuit, and performing regionally.”
Julia has different engagements organized in Vancouver as nicely. “I’m going to performing as a soloist with the Vancouver Bach Choir in February,” Julia says.
Together with auditions, Angela can be wanting ahead to the vacation season later this 12 months. “I’m excited to do one other Messiah with Choral Connection in December. I’m actually wanting ahead to it.”
The pair might take the Two Sopranos live performance format down the street to Vancouver to carry out there throughout Julia’s time within the Vancouver Opera Younger Artists’ Program. “We’d prefer to proceed these live shows,” she says.
The Recital
On this system for the August 16 recital might be 2 Duos, Op.11 by Ernest Chausson, and Deux duos pour deux sopranos, Op. 10 by Gabriel Fauré.
“It’s very tough, we’ve discovered, to seek out one thing for 2 sopranos,” Julia explains.
Each vocalists function related colors and tones of their voices. It’s meant that, at college productions, for instance, they’d be competing for a similar roles — slightly than singing collectively. It’s additionally meant tweaking preparations at occasions.
“For us, it’s additionally a possibility. Even in class, we by no means acquired to carry out collectively,” Angela says.
The 2 have been typically double solid in the identical roles. “You get to observe the opposite individual, however by no means get to carry out collectively,” Gjurichanin provides.
Every live performance is an opportunity to showcase one thing slightly completely different than the standard operatic function.
“It’s a pleasant even break up between us two,” LoRusso says of this system.
“We do it backwards and forwards between the songs, who sings the best line,” Angela provides. “It’s a little bit of a problem.”
- Discover tickets for the August 16 recital of Two Sopranos [HERE].
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Anya Wassenberg is the Toronto Metropolis Editor at Ludwig Van. Beforehand, she was a contract author with a specialty in tradition and journey for 3 many years, and a artistic writing teacher for Ontariolearn.
