Mainstage Production
Gaetano Donizetti’s Don Pasquale
Lucia Cesaroni as Norina
Lucia Cesaroni
Italian-Canadian soprano Lucia Cesaroni has been attracting the attention of discerning audiences and critics from Vancouver to la bell’Italia in recital, concert and opera. She was in Sulmona for Adina in L’elisir d’amore; at the Snape Maltings for an Aldeburgh Alumni Recital with Steuart Bedford; in Bayfield, Ontario in recital; and was a fellow at the 2011 Ravinia Art Song Institute. She debuted earlier in the season with Vancouver Opera as Maria in West Side Story and will play Norina in Saskatoon Opera`s Don Pasquale this spring. In December she was heard with the Montreal Symphony and Victoria Symphony in Messiah and looks forward to Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with the Hamilton Philharmonic and an appearance with the Aldeburgh Connection. In 2012-2013, she will be heard with Symphony Nova Scotia in Die Schöpfung by Haydn and in recital for the Muskoka Opera Festival.
Ms. Cesaroni’s 2010-2011 season opened with her Opera Hamilton debut as Barbarina in Le Nozze de Figaro and she appeared as Adele in Die Fledermaus for Toronto Operetta Theatre over the holidays and into 2011. Other highlights included recitals for the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto and the Off Centre Salon concert series.
The role of Cleopatra in Handel’s Giulio Cesare with Orchestra London brought her 2009-2010 season to a very successful close. In November 2009, she made her role debut as Anne Trulove in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress with Pacific Opera Victoria, where “At the tender age of 26, Lucia Cesaroni sounded just like Anne: sweet, loyal, lyrical, and totally grounded in her sincerity”. During her year in Germany studying with Edith Wiens, she sang as soprano soloist in a fully staged European tour of Carmina Burana: Monumental Opera with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Berlin Symphoniker. Directly preceding her move to Germany, she traveled to Tel Aviv with the International Vocal Arts Institute, where she sang Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. At the invitation of the program’s director, Joan Dornemann from the Metropolitan Opera, Lucia has also participated in IVAI’s concerts and master classes in New York, Montreal and Virginia.
Born in Toronto and holding a Masters Degree in Opera from the University of Toronto, Lucia appeared as Adina in the opera school’s production of L’elisir d’amore and Ginevra in Händel’s Ariodante in 2008. After starring as Susanna in Opera York Toronto’s Le Nozze di Figaro, she reprised the role in Israel with the International Vocal Arts Institute. Past credits include master classes with Hakan Hagegaard, Adrianne Pieczonka and Russell Braun as well as being a featured soloist in Orff’s Carmina Burana, Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang, Symphony No.2 and in Anton Bruckner’s Te Deum. In addition, Lucia sang the role of Lucia in Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia in Toronto.
Other highlights include her debut with The Aldeburgh Connection recital series in Toronto: A City of Villages, the Britten-Pears Festival and Young Artists programme at the Aldeburgh Festival, where she appeared in performances of Mozart’s Da Ponte operas and concerts of Wolf and Strauss Lieder with Roger Vignoles, having received the Canadian Aldeburgh Foundation’s Sutton Scholarship.
Michale Uloth as Don Pasquale
Michale Uloth
Canadian bass Michael Uloth has just completed the Seattle Opera Young Artists Program, where his performances include the title role in Don Pasquale, and Le Bailli in a touring production of Werther. A graduate of the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio, Michael returns to Canada in the spring to reprise the title role of Don Pasquale for Saskatoon Opera.
In his three seasons with the Canadian Opera Company, Michael’s performances included Truffaldino in Ariadne auf Naxos, Snug in A Midsummer Night's Dream, 2nd Armed Man in Die Zauberflöte, Imperial Commissioner in Madama Butterfly, Bonze in Le Rossignol, Priest in St. Mark's in Death in Venice, Gavrila in War & Peace, and Sarastro, Don Alfonso, and Voice of Neptune in Ensemble Studio performances of Die Zauberflöte, Così fan tutte and Idomeneo, respectively. He also covered the roles of Colline in La Bohème, Zuniga in Carmen, Ramfis in Aida, Lodovico in Otello, Masetto in Don Giovanni, Pietro in Simon Boccanegra, The Emperor in Le Rossignol, Bass 2 in Renard, and Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
An alumnus of Glimmerglass Opera’s Young American Artists Program, Michael’s opera credits also include Caronte/Plutone in L’Orfeo (Glimmerglass Opera, cover), Poet/Judge in Philip Glass’ Orphée (Glimmerglass Opera, cover), Sparafucile in Rigoletto (Saskatoon Opera), Enrico VIII in Anna Bolena (Opera in Concert, Toronto), Leporello/Il Commendatore in Don Giovanni (Centre for Opera Studies in Italy), Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte (Guelph Symphony Orchestra), Pistola in Falstaff (Highlands Opera Studio), and High Priest/Hymen in Purcell’s The Indian Queen (Toronto Masque Theatre).
In concert, Michael’s repertoire includes Mozart's Requiem (Grand River Chorus), Jesus in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion (Victoria Philharmonic Choir) and St. John Passion (Metropolitan Festival Choir), Haydn's Nelson Mass (Elora Festival), Balthasar in Amahl and the Night Visitors (Elora Festival Singers), Haydn's The Creation (Parry Sound School of Music), Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle (Centre for Opera Studies in Italy), and Polonius/Gravedigger in Canadian composer Mark Richards’ Hamlet (Stratford Summer Music). He has also presented two recitals at the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto, featuring works by Brahms, Finzi, Donizetti, Verdi and Thomas Legrady.
Michael is a graduate of the Bachelor of Music and Opera Diploma programs at Wilfrid Laurier University and the Master of Music in Opera program at the University of Toronto Opera Division. He has also trained at Glimmerglass Opera’s Young American Artists Program, the Centre for Opera Studies in Italy, Highlands Opera Studio, The Banff Centre’s Opera as Theatre Program, and the International Vocal Arts Institute’s training programs in Montreal and Puerto Rico. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, including Second Prize at the Christina & Louis Quilico Awards and generous support from the Canada Council for the Arts, and also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature.
For more information, please visit michaeluloth.com
Isaiah Bell as Ernesto
Isaiah Bell
This year marks Canadian tenor Isaiah Bell’s debuts with l’Orchestre Métropolitain at the Festival de Lanaudière, under Yannick Nézét-Séguin (Beethoven’s Mass in C), Trinity Wall Street in New York, under Julian Wachner (Evangelist in the John Passion, tenor solos in BWV 4 & 134), Jeunesses Musicales Canada (Ferrando in Così fan tutte) and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra under Ivars Taurens (Messiah), as well as return engagements with l’Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, under Kent Nagano (Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ), the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul in Montreal (Evangelist in the Matthew Passion), the Baldwin-Wallace Bach Festival in Cleveland (Tenor solos in the Matthew Passion) and Montreal’s Choeur St-Laurent (Mozart’s Mass in C Minor).
While past accomplishments highlight an affinity for the works of Britten (The Madwoman in Curlew River, Abraham in Abraham and Isaac, the title roles in Albert Herring and St. Nicolas), Bach (Christmas Oratorio, Mass in B minor, the John Passion and the Matthew Passion, numerous cantatas), Handel (Messiah, Judas Maccabaeus, Solomon, Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day) and Mozart (Requiem, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte), Isaiah performs in a wide repertoire, as comfortable in Purcell or Rossini as in Schubert or Stravinsky. Active as a composer and librettist himself, Isaiah also has a special interest in the performance and promotion of new and contemporary works.
Mr. Bell received his formal training at the University of Victoria, subsequently apprenticing with the Young Artist Program of Pacific Opera Victoria, Calgary Opera’s Emerging Artist Program, and l’Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal. He has studied under Benjamin Butterfield, Wendy Nielsen, Gerald Martin Moore and Daniel Taylor.
Adrian Kramer as Dr. Malatesta
Adrian Kramer
Canadian baritone Adrian Kramer is currently in his third year of the Canadian Opera Company’s Ensemble Studio program. He recently appeared with the COC as The Jailer in Tosca, Marullo in Rigoletto, Papageno in the Ensemble Studio performance of The Magic Flute, the Wig-maker in Ariadne auf Naxos, the Hotel Waiter in Death in Venice and the Japanese Envoy 3 in The Nightingale and Other Short Fables with the COC at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Adrian has performed with Glimmerglass Opera, New York Festival of Song, Châteauville Festival, Chautauqua Institution, Saskatoon Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Berkeley Presents, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival, Curtis on Tour, Regina Symphony Orchestra, Curtis Opera Theater and the Juilliard Opera Center. Concert credits include performances at Carnegie Hall, the Kimmel Center, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, The Ravinia Festival, The Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts and various venues throughout Europe with Curtis on Tour.
Adrian recently made his Chicago Opera Theatre debut as Sasha in Shostakovich's Moscow Cheryomushki and will soon return to Saskatoon Opera as Dr. Malatesta in Donizetti's Don Pasquale. On the concert stage he will perform Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin with pianist Christopher Mokrzewski as part of the COC’s Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre. He will also revisit the role of Papageno in Die Zauberflöte for Highlands Opera Studio.
Adrian was last year’s winner of the prestigious Louis Quilico Competition and is a four time grant recipient from the Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation for Young Canadian Opera Singers. He is also a past winner of the Juilliard Honors Recital Competition and first runner-up in the National Kiwanis Vocal Competition of Canada. Other operatic credits include Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Pelleas in Peter Brook's abridged version of Pelléas et Mélisande, Sid in Albert Herring, Pince Robert in Iolanta, A Shoe Salesman in Postcard from Morocco, Morales in Carmen and Ottone in L'incoronazione di Poppea, among others. Adrian holds degrees from both The Juilliard School and The Curtis Institute of Music.
Opening Night performance
Sat, June 16, 2012, 7:30 pm
Performances
Mon, June 18, 7:30 pm
Wed, June 20, 7:30 pm
Fri, June 22, 7:30 pm
Sunday Matinee
Sunday, June 24, 2:00 pm
All mainstage performances take place in
Rawlco Radio Hall, Remai Arts Centre
101 Spadina Cres. E, Saskatoon SK.
For tickets call Remai Arts Centre Box Office 384-7727
Purchase Tickets On Line: www.persephonetheatre.org
Also available by subscription
Henry Purcell’s
King Arthur
Saskatoon Opera and the University of Saskatchewan Amati Quartet present Henry Purcell’s Baroque Opera Sung in English.
Old magic and legends, romance and deception…
Lisa Marie Baldwin as Guinevere
Lisa Marie Baldwin
Lisa Marie Baldwin completed a Bachelor of Music Performance at the University of Regina and later participated in the NUOVA Summer Opera Program in Edmonton where she worked with teachers from all across Canada. She has been a featured soloist in recent performances of Bach’s Cantata No 82 “Ich Habe Genug” and Cantata No 51 “Jauchzet Gott” (Prairie Virtuosi), Vivaldi’s Gloria (Cecilian Singers/Prairie Virtuosi), Faure’s Requiem, Dubois’ Seven Last Words of Christ (Cecilian Singers) and Poulenc’s Gloria with the University of Saskatchewan Chorus. She has also appeared as guest artist with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra in Handel’s Messiah and Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915. Lisa Marie resides in Saskatoon and in addition to singing, she maintains a full-time Massage Therapy Practice.
Lisa Marie Baldwin is elated to be playing Mother Abbess. From an early age, she studied voice with Michele Hupaelo before completing a Bachelor of Music Degree in Regina. No stranger to Saskatoon Summer Players, her first show was Annie in 1988 and fondly remembers playing Mable in Pirates of Penzance SK. Lisa Marie was last seen singing with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra performing Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915. Outside of music, she has been a Registered Massage Therapist since 2003. She would like to dedicate this performance to her entire family in thanks for their continued support of her musical efforts.
Michael Harris as Lancelot
Michael Harris
Tenor Michael Harris completed his Bachelor of Music at the University of Manitoba, and earned an Advanced Performance Diploma at the Welsh College of Music and Drama. In addition to his operatic and oratorio performances, Michael is also a participant in Voci Strane, a local Early Music vocal collective. He currently resides in Saskatoon with his wife Taunya and children William and Branwen, where he maintains an active voice studio, and is an executive member of the Saskatchewan Registered Music Teachers’ Association. Michael is the Musical Director of the Saskatoon francophone choir Choeur des plaines, and was Chorus Master for the SOA productions of La Bohème and La Traviata. Saskatchewan performances have included Handel’s Messiah in Saskatoon, Yorkton, Swift Current and Regina, Haydn’s Creation and Clausen's A New Beginning in Swift Current, Britten's Serenade with the Prairie Virtuosi, and the Saskatchewan Music Festival Centennial performance of Sterndale Bennett’s May Queen in Regina.
Sarah Halmarson as Nimue
Sarah Halmarson
Soprano Sarah Halmarson has been praised as a “gifted actor” whose “clear voice spun as golden as her locks” (Opera Canada). Recent engagements included her Manitoba Opera debut as First Lady in Die Zauberflöte, Belinda in Dido and Aeneas with Opera on the Avalon and Despina (cover) in Così fan tutte with Banff Opera as Theatre. She has also performed with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (Bastien und Bastienne, Holiday Express Tour), Royal Winnipeg Ballet (Carmina Burana, The Magic Flute), Saskatoon Opera (Giannetta in L’elisir d’Amore, Rosie in The Barber of Boomtown), Banff Opera as Theatre (Belinda in Dido and Aeneas, Carmina Burana, Lillian Alling), Winnipeg Wind Ensemble (Carmina Burana), The Little Opera Company (Dortchen in The Brothers Grimm), and Off Centre Music Salon. She was a Regional Finalist in the 2008 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and won First Prize in the 2008 Doris McLellan Competition. Ms. Halmarson received her Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from the University of Manitoba, and completed further training through the University of Manitoba Opera Apprenticeship Program and the Banff Centre for the Arts. She was the recipient of a 2010 Manitoba Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant, and has also received generous support from the Winnipeg Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts. She will perform Handel’s Messiah with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in December 2011.
William Lewans as King Arthur
William Lewans
Praised by Ken Winters in The Globe and Mail (2010) for his “compact, vibrant, rock-steady sound,” bass-baritone William Lewans is a Masters graduate from the University of Western Ontario. Recent operatic roles include Don Alfonso in Cosi fan tutte, Frank in Die Fledermaus, Doctor Bartolo in Il Barbiere di Sivilglia, and The Bonze in Madama Butterfly; all with Opera Kitchener, Marquese D’Obigny in La Traviata and Antonio in Le Nozze di Figaro with Saskatoon Opera as well as the title role in Le Nozze di Figaro with Halifax Summer Opera Workshop. Other operatic credits include Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Crespel in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, and Mr. Olsen in Street Scene. Orchestra appearances include the role of Pan in Bach’s Die Streit zwischen Phoebus und Pan with Orchestra London.
William Lewans, a native of Saskatchewan, returned to his home province this May to sing recitals at the Lyell Gustin Recital Series and Marysburg Recital series with well-known Saskatoon pianist Gregory Schulte. Future roles include Masetto in Don Giovanni and a tour of China with Opera Jeunesse. In addition to a Masters in Voice, Saskatchewan native William Lewans holds a Masters in Piano Performance from the University of British Columbia.
Garry Gable as Merlin
Garry Gable
Garry Gable, bass-baritone, resides in Saskatoon where he teaches vocal studies and directs the Music Theatre Ensemble at the University of Saskatchewan. Garry was named a recipient of the 2011 Provost’s Awards for Outstanding Teaching at the University of Saskatchewan. Among his many students over the years are winners of CMFTA Nationals, Gordon Wallace Opera Competition, SRMTA, Provincials, and Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (Regional). He is widely sought as an adjudicator and clinician. His performing career has taken him across Canada and the USA in Broadway and all types of classical music, drama, and in-concert and stage presentations. He has performed several times in recital in China, where he is adjunct faculty in Music Conservatories in Wuhan and Tianjin. He has been heard several times on the CBC-Radio both regionally and nationally. In Saskatchewan, Garry has been seen on-stage with Saskatoon Opera (Die Fledermaus, Don Giovanni, L’elisir d’amore, La Bohème, and this past spring he sang Dr. Bartolo with SOA in Le Nozze di Figaro), and Persephone Theatre (Beauty and the Beast), and many times with the Saskatoon Symphony. He will join the SSO this March as baritone solist in Brahm’s Ein Deutches Requiem.
Saskatoon Performance
Sat. October 29, 2011, 7:30 pm
Third Avenue United Church
Saskatoon, SK
Swift Current Performance
Fri. November 4, 2011, 8:00 pm
Sky Centre, Living Sky Casino
Swift Current, SK
Regina Performance
Sat. November 5, 2011, 7:30 pm
Knox Metropolitan United Church
Regina, SK
Sirens
Alluringly beautiful, seducing with song.
Allison Arends
Featuring
Allison Arends, Soprano & Rachel Andrist, Piano
An Opera and Song Recital featuring the works of Handel, Schumann, Libby Larsen, Strauss and Gershwin.
Allison Arends
Lyric-Coloratura Soprano, Allison Cecilia Arends, began this season with a non-profit fundraiser concert as guest soloist with Windago Choir in Toronto, and as a member of Black Creek Festival's Chorus. Allison will reprise the role of Musetta, join the Tallis Choir as soprano soloist in Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, and perform with baritone Peter McGillivray, mezzo-soprano Leigh-Anne Martin, clarinetist Peter Stoll, and pianist Robert Kortgaard in recital, all at the Colours of Music Festival in Barrie this fall. Allison has also been engaged by the Calgary Civic Symphony and Philharmonic Chorus for Orff’s Carmina Burana, the Pax Christi Chorale for Handel’s Messiah, the Regina Philharmonic Chorus for Mendelssohn’s Magnificat and Mozart’s Requiem, and the Toronto Classical Singers for a period performance of Verdi’s Requiem. She will appear in recital with the Women’s Musical Club of Winnipeg and Saskatoon Opera, both with pianist Rachel Andrist, Toronto’s Birthday Series for a recital of songs by Marx, and Toronto's Off Centre Music Salon. In the fall, she will appear in a noon hour concert of highlights from La Bohème at the Arts and Letters Club in Toronto and in December she will join the Green Door Cabaret in their Christmas concert.
Previously recorded and broadcast by CBC Radio, Allison’s awards include being named a Laureate of the Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques, third place in the Spazio Musica International Competition, the Hnatyshyn Foundation Governor General’s Award for Classical Voice, a Senior Award through the B.C. Arts Council, an Encouragement Award through the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Holbrook Opera Tour Graduating Award, and scholarships from the Johann Strauss Foundation, the Wagner Society, the COVC, and the Universities of Toronto and Victoria.
Ms Arends is a recent graduate of Calgary Opera’s Emerging Artist Program and completed a Masters of Music at the University of Toronto Opera School under the esteemed tutelage of Mary Morrison, OC, with whom she now continues private studies. She has completed summer studies at the Britten-Pears Young Artist Program, Highland Opera Studio, Centre for Opera Studies in Italy, International Vocal Arts Institute in Israel, Song and Scenes Program with Queen of Puddings Music Theatre in Toronto, Banff Opera as Theatre program, Franz Schubert-Institut in Austria, and Stuttgart Festival International Choir under the direction of Maestro Helmuth Rilling.
An Opera and Song Recital featuring the works of Handel, Schumann, Libby Larsen, Strauss and Gershwin.
Sunday, January 8, 2012, 2:00 pm
Rawlco Radio Hall, Remai Arts Centre, Saskatoon, SK
Saskatoon, SK
For tickets call Remai Arts Centre Box Office 384-7727
Opera in the Schools Tour 2012
Gioacchino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville
Saskatoon Opera communicates with young people using the universal language of music.
Saskatoon Opera in Schools has entertained, educated, and inspired thousands of school children with adaptations of great operas or operas created especially for school audiences.
Photo by: Mona, Georges Vanier School, Saskatoon
Mainstage Production
Gaetano Donizetti’s Don Pasquale
Opening Night performance
Sat, June 16, 2012, 7:30 pm
Performances
Mon, June 18, 7:30 pm
Wed, June 20, 7:30 pm
Fri, June 22, 7:30 pm
Sunday Matinee
Sunday, June 24, 2:00 pm
All mainstage performances take place in
Rawlco Radio Hall, Remai Arts Centre
101 Spadina Cres. E, Saskatoon SK.
For tickets call Remai Arts Centre Box Office 384-7727
Purchase Tickets On Line: www.persephonetheatre.org
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Saskatoon Opera in Schools Tour 2012
Gioacchino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville
Saskatoon Opera communicates with young people using the universal language of music.
Saskatoon Opera in Schools has entertained, educated, and inspired thousands of school children with adaptations of great operas or operas created especially for school audiences.
Photo by: Mona, Georges Vanier School, Saskatoon
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Don Pasquale
Opening Night performance
Sat, June 16, 2012, 7:30 pm
Performances
Mon, June 18, 7:30 pm
Wed, June 20, 7:30 pm
Fri, June 22, 7:30 pm
Sunday Matinee
Sunday, June 24, 2:00 pm
All mainstage performances take place in
Rawlco Radio Hall, Remai Arts Centre
101 Spadina Cres. E, Saskatoon SK.
| Seats | Full Price | Early Bird Price (Bef. Mar. 3, 2012) |
Student/Senior Group Rate* |
|---|---|---|---|
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| 2 note | $68.00 | $61.60 | $61.60 |
| 1 note seats: Main Floor rows B–E | |||
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King Arthur
Saskatoon Performance
Sat. Oct. 29, 2011, 7:30 pm
Third Avenue United Church
Saskatoon, SK
Regina Performance
Sat. Nov. 5, 2011, 7:30 pm
Knox Metropolitan United Church
Regina, SK
| Seats | Full Price | Seniors | Students* |
|---|---|---|---|
| all seats | $30.00 | $25.00 | $15.00 |
* Student ID required
Sirens
Alluringly beautiful, seducing with song.
Featuring
Allison Arends, Soprano & Rachel Andrist, Piano
An Opera and Song Recital featuring the works of Handel, Schumann, Libby Larsen, Strauss and Gershwin.
Sunday, January 8, 2012, 2:00 pm
Rawlco Radio Hall, Remai Arts Centre, Saskatoon, SK
Saskatoon, SK
| Seats | Full Price | Seniors | Students* |
|---|---|---|---|
| all seats | $34.00 | $30.00 | $20.00 |
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Saskatoon Opera does not trade or sell phone numbers or email addresses to any other business or organization. We do not rent or sell our mailing lists to commercial businesses.
Personal information will be retained and disposed of in a manner which provides reasonable security against unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification, disposal or similar risks. Personal information will be retained only so long as necessary to fulfill the uses stated above or as required by law.
Consent to collect, retain and use personal patron and donor information is implicit when patrons provide such information. Patrons have the right to provide only the personal information reasonably required to conduct their chosen transaction with Saskatoon Opera. Patrons may at any time limit or alter their consent for Saskatoon Opera to collect, use, or retain personal information. Patrons may also review and/or correct their personal information at any time. Changes will be made in a timely fashion.
To contact Saskatoon Opera about privacy of information concerns, contact the General Manager at Privacy.
