Jacqui Fidlar:
CLASS OF 1984
William Aberhart High SchoolClass of 1984
Calgary, AB
Jacqui's Story
Life
Canadian mezzo-soprano Jacqui Lynn Fidlar began her vocal studies at the University of Calgary, and continued on to the University of Torontos Opera Division where she was chosen as the Distinguished Graduate in 1995. Through a scholarship, she received her Masters from the prestigious Academy of Vocal Arts in 1999 in Philadelphia.
She has been selected for a number of workshops, apprenticeship programs and master classes including the Banff School of Fine Arts Summer Program (2002, 1994) and the Santa Fe Operas Apprenticeship Program and Tour (1996). She has won many awards and scholarships including the Special Judges Award in the 1997 Metropolitan Opera Councils District Auditions, and the Audience Choice Award at the 1999 Jeunesses Canadiens in Montreal.
Ms. Fidlars many roles include Azucena (Il Trovatore), Marcellina (Le Nozze di Figaro), Third Lady (Die Zauberflote), La Zia Principessa (Suor Angelica), Zita (Gianni Schicchi), Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte), Maddalena (Rigoletto), The Fairy Queen (Iolanthe), Bianca (The Rape of Lucretia), Mrs. Herring (Albert Herring) and Magdalena ( Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg). She has had an extensive opera and concert career in Canada, the USA, French Polynesia and Europe.
Ms. Fidlar completed a one-year residency at the Centre National dInsertion Professionelle des Artistes Lyriques in Marseilles, France, which led to a number of engagements. She performed Marguerite (La Damnation de Faust) at the Giessener Staadtoper in Germany, and the Princess Orena (Lîle du reve) in the Festival des Iles de Tahiti. Ms. Fidlar created one of the characters in Les Yeux de LAmour et du Hasard at the Marseille and Avignon Operas. In July 2000 she sang the Seconda Ancella (Medea) in t...Expand for more
he Radio-France Festival in Montpellier, and in November created the role of Yseult (Mille ans sont comme un jour dans le ciel) with the Avignon Opera.
Ms. Fidlar made her Opera Ontario debut as Filipyevna (Eugene Onegin) in January 2001, and in February created the role of the Old Woman in the new Canadian opera, Turtle Wakes, (Calgary Opera/Quest Theatre). In the fall she performed a concert of Montsalvatge and Strauss with the Mountain View Connection (CBC broadcast), and in the spring of 2002 she sang the alto solos in Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes and Mendelssohns Elijah.
In the summer of 2002 she was a participant in the first Opera as Theatre Program: Shakespeare at the Opera at the Banff Centre. She returned to Banff in September for the final workshop of Filumena. She was the Alto Soloist for Handels Messiah with both the Calgary Civic Symphony and VoiceScapes.
In 2003, Ms. Fidlar created the role of Mamma Constanzo in the world premiere of Filumena with Calgary Opera. She was the soloist in Aaron Coplands In the Beginning with Spiritus, and also performed in The Best of The Sacred Music Concerts of Duke Ellington, and the Calgary Civic Symphonys Russian concert including the Songs and Dances of Death by Mussorgsky. She was the Alto Soloist for the Bach Mass in B- with the Festival Chorus, and sang two Messiahs with the Bow Valley Chorus.
2004 began with Mountain View Connection and Valentines Day concerts, and continued with a May recital for CBCs Alberta in Concert series. She is currently preparing the Alto Solo for Beethovens 9th with the Edmonton and Vancouver Symphonies in June, and compiling a CD. Ms. Fidlar also participates in movie and television acting, Improvisational theatre, and Belly Dancing.
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