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SEASON HIGHLIGHTSEarly Music Performances by Schola Cantorum and Theatre of Early Music, a lute song recital with Dame Emma Kirkby

Chamber Music New Orford String Quartet, Beverley Johnston and Christos Hatzis, Gryphon Trio, Cecilia String Quartet

Workshops/Master Classes/Lectures Atom Egoyan, Sondra Radvanovsky, Barbara Hannigan, Michael Colgrass, Norma Winstone, Lawrence Shragge, Scott Burnham

Opera The Medium and The Telephone, Paul Bunyan

New Music Festival Featuring work by JUNO Award-winning guest composer, Allan Gordon Bell

Argentos Postcard from Morocco, U of T Opera, March 2015

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by RICHARD TURP

Canadian tenor Jon Vickers passed away at age 88, in July 2015,after a battle with Alzheimers. For many, Jon Vickers remainsthe defining dramatic tenor of his generation. In the dramatictenor roles that demand the most power and endurance, he hadfew rivals.

Vickers brought to each operatic incarnation a characterisation thatwas as personal as his vocal production was unique. Moreover, duringhis long career of over thirty years, he was often at the centre of contro-versies, both personal and professional, because he never hesitated to express convictions that many found rigid and inflexible, even shocking.

Born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, in 1926, he studied voice part-time and sang at the local church, all while holding a variety of jobs.In 1950, he won a scholarship that allowed him to study at TorontosRoyal Conservatory of Music with George Lambert. He made what heconsidered to be his professional debut on stage in 1954, in the role ofthe Duke of Mantua in Verdis Rigoletto at the Toronto Opera Festi-val (which later became the Canadian Opera Company).

As was the case for many Canadian singers of the era, Vickerswas discovered by Sir David Webster, who signed him up for a contract with the prestigious Royal Opera House, Covent Gardenin London. In 1957, for his first season, he sang Don Jos inBizets Carmen, Riccardo in Verdis Un Ballo in Maschera, andAeneas in Berliozs epic opera Les Troyens.

London became his artistic base, but he quickly made house debuts with all of the great opera companies of the word, including Bayreuth (1958) and Viennas Staatsoper (1959),where he sang the role of Siegmund in Wagners DieWalkre. In 1960, he sang for the first time at the Metro-politan Opera where he subsequently performed around 280 times.The same year marked his debut at Milans renowned Teatro alla Scala(Fidelio under Karajan) and at Chicagos Lyric Opera. Paris andSalzburg followed and his international career evolved at a steady pace

until his retirement.Vocally, Vickers was a young

dramatic tenor when he arrived inLondon. The power and breadth ofhis voice was both the glory and oneof the defining dimensions of his art.The timbre of his voice was instantly recognizable and the voice wasgraced with a natural re