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Adrianne Pieczonka as Sieglinde in Toronto: the Canadian-born soprano returns home for COC's Walkure.(Hot Ticket)(Brief Article)(Interview)
When Adrianne Pieczonka steps onstage at Canadian Opera Company on April 4, the occasion may have a special aura. The production is not only a personal homecoming for the Toronto-born soprano, who has spent the past fifteen years based in Europe, but a precursor to the first-ever Canadian Ring cycle, to be staged in the new Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, scheduled to open in 2006. It comes on the heels of Pieczonka's Met debut this season as Lisa in The Queen of Spades.
OPERA NEWS: What initially led you to leave Canada and settle abroad?
ADRIANNE PIECZONKA: In 1988, I received a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, which enabled me to fly to Europe and got started there. As a result, I ended up getting more leading roles. I was only twenty-five or twenty-six and singing my first Countess and Donna Elvira. There are more opportunities for younger singers to be cast in the big roles there, whereas in North America, you have to wait.
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