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2First Prize went to Toronto tenor, Charles Sy (22), currently studying at the University of Toronto with Darryl Edwards. He sang the ‘Portrait Aria’ from Magic Flute; and “Una furtiva lagrime” from Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore. As the evening progressed, it was clearly ‘no contest’. Sy was the winner of the match. With his pleasing, sweet timbre, and innate musicality, Sy shows enormous promise. His stage craft is minimal at this stage (why was he grinning throughout Nemorio’s aria?), but he has an infectious charm to his stage presence. Sy was also awarded the much-deserved $1,500.00 Audience Choice Award.
Charles Sy is the first UofT student to win top honours at the competition and took home $5000 for his first prize win and another $1500 for his People’s Choice Award.
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2“Indeed, Rachel Peake has done her job so well that it can be difficult, while you are laughing so hard, to remember that these are killer vocal parts being sung exquisitely. Mezzo Simone McIntosh wins over the audience with sheer vocal agility and a lovely rich sound.”
“The opera is centred on the role of Cenerentola (Cinderella) and Simone McIntosh radiated the pure inner beauty of her character without a trace of self-righteousness or superiority. Even if rapidly rattling off the text’s relentlessly repeated fricative sibilants—a device Rossini uses almost to excess—was not her forte, that particular type of vocal virtuosity is not germane to her character. Her opulent, floating mezzo-soprano was perfectly suited to the role’s more quietly loving and sincere passages in the midst of the fractious, comedic ado transpiring all about her.”
