James Coole-Stevenson

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James Coole-Stevenson

At the age of 26, James has amazed audiences with his vocal maturity, musicality and dynamic performing range. He is an up and coming Canadian singer and has recently completed a Masters in Opera performance at the University of Toronto. He has impressed audiences in a number of operatic roles including Sydney Carton in Arthur Benjamin’s A Tale Of Two Cities, Demetrius in Britten’s Midsummer night’s dream, and Don Giovanni in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. His sensitivity and nuance in art song, opera and sacred music is his most defining trait, as well as his wide reaching musical interests. In the Spring of 2024, James had his professional debut as Ping and the Mandarin in Puccini’s Turandot, as a member of the Gate City Bank Fargo-Moorhead Young Artist Program. 

James had the honor of participating in Manitoba Opera’s Digital Emerging Artist’s Program, where he worked with several industry talents to create a video project tracing his Newfoundland heritage through the lens of traditional folk songs collected by Maud Carpeles and Ralph Vaughan-Williams. With the assistance of the program, he was able to travel to his grandfather’s ancestral home where he met and interviewed long lost relatives about the importance of music in the small village of Newman’s Cove, Newfoundland. He is truly grateful for the opportunity provided to him by Manitoba Opera.

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James Coole-Stevenson

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