It is time for a ✨GIVEAWAY✨
We are giving away TWO tickets to our Grand Finale Concert on May 30 at 2pm in collaboration with @operawestsociety
🎶What You Could Win🎶
Two tickets to our Grand Finale Concert in Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the UBC Old Auditorium!
How to Enter:
1. Follow @ubcopera AND @operawestsociety
2. Tag a friend AND tell us your favourite opera!
Giveaway closes on May 20! Enter now!
Featuring:
@simoneosbornesoprano@gordonbintner@gordon.gerrard@vancouveropera Orchestra
Link for tickets in bio!
Joining us for the third time this season on May 30 at 2pm is the @vancouveropera Orchestra! Be sure to check out the members of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra at the link below.
https://www.vancouveropera.ca/orchestra/
Link for tickets in bio!
We are thrilled to have UBC Opera Alum @simoneosbornesoprano back to perform at the Old Auditorium on May 30 at 2pm for our Grand Finale Concert in collaboration with @operawestsociety
📸: Sam Gaetz
Leading our soloists and orchestra for our Grand Finale Concert in collaboration with @operawestsociety on May 30 at 2pm is Conductor @gordon.gerrard
📸: Chris Graham
Alumni update with @simonemcmezzo
BMUS 2014
Greetings from luscious Scotland where I am rehearsing The Marriage of Figaro!
These have been a very exciting few years of house and role debuts to update my Alma mater on! This season included debuts at Staatsoper Hamburg as Dorabella, Concertgebouw as Ugo d’Asti, Bühnen Bern as Adalgisa and Teatro Real as Hermia. Next season I’ll be returning to San Francisco Opera as Cherubino, Staatsoper Hamburg as Rosina, Concertgebouw as Dodo McNeil, and a debut at Royal Opera and Ballet as Dorabella!
My lovely husband and bass, JP Mc Clish, often travels with me when he’s not on contract. We always travel with our ball-obsessed toy poodle, Tanji. When not on the road, we’re eating croissant aux amandes and drinking Aperol spritz in our home-base, Paris.
Alumni update with @itsadrianamusic@_adrianaolympia
BMUS 2024
Since graduating from UBC, Adriana Zaharijevic has been carving out her own lane as an independent artist under the name Adriana Olympia, creating and performing original music that blends pop, soul, and R&B. She leads the creative direction of her work — writing, composing, and producing — and in February released her debut EP Permission to Miss Me.
Recent performances include curated concert series in Vancouver with Nebula Performances, such as Simply Lyrical and Nebula in Love, as well as an audition and staging workshop led by David Walsh, where she further developed her stage presence and storytelling. Alongside her live work, she continues to collaborate with producers and songwriters in Los Angeles, actively writing and recording new music.
Outside of performing, Adriana works as a vocal coach, helping singers develop strong technique, confidence, and authentic musical expression.
Alumni update with @emmapsings
MMUS 2021
Recent roles include Najade with Pacific Northwest Opera, Mabel with Seattle Opera, Johanna with Opera Idaho, Musetta with Bellevue Opera and Nannetta with Portland Opera. I’m about to sing Gretel with Vashon Opera and sing the soprano solo in the Brahms Requiem with Bach on the Rock on Salt Spring Island! Later this summer I will sing Pamina with the Savannah Voice Festival. I live in Seattle now where I teach private voice students and also I am a certified Music Together teacher. I love the ocean, yoga, and travel!
From our friends at UBC Opera & Opera West:
Our friends at @ubcopera join forces with @operawestsociety for The Grand Finale of Our 100th Anniversary Celebrations! Taking place on May 30, 2026 at 2:00pm at the UBC Old Auditorium.
Opera West and UBC Opera present two internationally acclaimed Canadian singers in concert. UBC Alumna, Soprano, Simone Osborne and Bass-baritone, Gordon Bintner. Canadian conductor, Gordon Gerrard and members of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra join them in an evening of opera, operetta and musical theatre.
Your support and donations ensure UBC Opera and the Old Auditorium will continue to be the go-to place for opera for the next 100 years!
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