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Essential Opera performs at JUNOfest March 13, 2024
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Maureen’s career focuses on celebrating music by living composers through her opera company Essential Opera, her concert series Crossing Borders, and her discography including 2x-ECMA-winning album Lighthouse and JUNO-nominated Breathing in the Shadows. As an educator, Maureen specializes in embodied voice, voice & movement play, and gender affirming voice work. Celebrated for her “rich, warm sound and masterful acting” (Opera Canada), she has created 13 Canadian opera roles. Maureen played Despina in HSOF’s inaugural production of Così and is now regularly on faculty. Maureenbatt.com @maureenbattsoprano

Join us for a concert version of Mozart’s amazing opera The Magic Flute, sung in German with projected English translations and linking narration. An all-star cast of local singers bring this work to life with energy and passion, to support the work of the Halifax Summer Opera Festival! Tickets can be purchased online via our website or at the door.

Website: https://halifaxsummeroperarestival.com
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It’s my birthday! I had such a positive response

It’s my birthday! I had such a positive response from last year’s birthday-inspired newsletter and posts so I decided to do a repeat. And I promised myself I’d get better at these requests.

Head to the link in my bio for the newsletter which features very exciting updates and clickable graphics.

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Thank you for all of your favs and follows, subs and spins! Your engagement with my music and social media accounts makes a very big difference to applications that I write. Someday there might be a day when that doesn’t matter but today is not that day. And, more importantly, I love talking to you all on the various platforms!!

I/we have accounts on Threads, Bluesky, and Bandcamp, too! So if that’s where you hang out, come find me/us and say hi!

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Another co-led workshop with @maureenbattsoprano and @senseablesinging !! This time with @officialnats in Toronto for their international conference! Living’ the dream 🌈✨🍃

Voices Uplifted! We’re thrilled to share we have been selected as a presenter for the 11th International Congress of Voice Teachers in Toronto, Canada (July 31 to August 3, 2025) with a session called: Strategies for enlivening the inherent wholeness of your mind + body + voice system

Check out nats.org/icvt2025 for details. Let us know if you’re attending too! #ICVT2025 #VoiceTeachers #WholenessInMotion #VoiceWorkshop #EmbodiedVoice

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Availability has been added for the remainder of August and into September. If you’re curious about what any of this means and how it might pertain to you, find me in my DMs. I’ve recently added a consultation option for gender affirming voice clients.

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Happy Pride, Halifolk!
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