ImPerfect As We Are

The Court of Last Resort, Little Women 2023 (photo by Kaela Bosch @kaelaboschcaptures) from l-r Grace Ronan, MacKenzie Sechi, Keiko Larocque and Katrina Elms (Xander Bechard hidden!) Our Little Women opened, ran, and closed last weekend. It was a triumph for everyone...

Power Women

Power Women–taken at Little Women dress rehearsal, March 8, 2023 (l-r Kira Omelchenko, Kimberly Barber, Kate Carver, Dana Fradkin) In honour of International Women’s Day, I bring you: Power Women. At Opera Laurier, I have built a reputation for hiring...

Hear me roar

Roar (accessed on Snappa, March 2, 2023) I began teaching my inaugural EmPowering your Voice! workshops last night. These sessions have been circling around my artist-teacher brain for several years; I began a prototype of them in the first fall of the pandemic with...

We need to talk about Midori

Midori Marsh booting up backstage, Four Seasons Centre, Toronto (November 2019) So. We need to talk about Midori. A quick bio: Midori Marsh studied in my studio at Laurier for 5 years, from 2013-2018. She then went on to do her Masters at my alma mater, University of...

Midori for the win!

Barber Studio alumna Midori Marsh (Laurier BMus 2017, OpDip 2018) won the Upper Midwest Regional Auditions of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and will compete in New York City in the semi-finals on April 17, 2023.