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Roxolana Roslak
Ukrainian-Canadian soprano singer (born 1940) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Roxolana Mykhailivna Roslak (Ukrainian: Роксола́на Миха́йлівна Росляк; born 10 February 1940) is a Ukrainian-Canadian soprano singer.
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Biography
Roxolana Roslak was born on 10 February 1940 in Chortkov, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Chortkiv, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine).[1][2]
From 1948, she lived in Edmonton, Canada and became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1953. In 1964, Roslak graduated from the Royal Conservatory and the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto.[1][2][3]
Career
From 1963, she has been a soloist with the Canadian Opera Company and the Toronto Regional Concert Bureau, and a lecturer at the RCMT in Toronto (from 1986).[1][2][3]
Roslak has performed at opera houses in Germany (Munich, Düsseldorf), Great Britain (Royal Opera House, London; Shakespeare festival, Stratford-upon-Avon), and Switzerland (Geneva).[1][2][3][4]
Roslak gave concerts in Canada and the United States (1978 – a large tour of the American continent; including in Lincoln Center, New York City[5][6]); her repertoire includes works by Antonio Vivaldi, Claude Debussy, and Ukrainian folk songs. She has recorded several albums in the USA.[1][2]
Opera parts:[1]
- 1963: Modiste, Der Rosenkavalier
- 1963, 1975: Marguerite, Somers' Louis Riel
- 1968: Musetta, La Bohème
- 1970: Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni
- 1970, 1979: Micaëla, Carmen
- 1978: Agnes Sorel, Jeanne d'Arc
- 1979: la comtesse, Les Noces de Figaro
- 1982: Alice Ford, Falstaff
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