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Roxolana Roslak (Ukrainian: Роксолана Михайлівна Росляк; born 10 February 1940) is a Ukrainian soprano singer.




Biography


Roxolana Roslak was born on 10 February 1940 in Chortkiv, now Chortkiv urban hromada, Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.
From 1948 she lived in Edmonton, Canada. In 1964, Roslak graduate of the Royal Conservatory and the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto.




Career


From 1963, she has been a soloist with the Canadian Opera Company and the Toronto Regional Concert Bureau, and a lecturer at the RCMT in Toronto (from 1986).
Roslak has performed at opera houses in Germany (Munich, Düsseldorf), Great Britain (Royal Opera House, London; Shakespeare festival, Stratford-upon-Avon), and Switzerland (Geneva).
Roslak gave concerts in Canada and the United States (1978 – a large tour of the American continent; including in Lincoln Center, New York City); her repertoire includes works by Antonio Vivaldi, Claude Debussy, and Ukrainian folk songs. She has recorded several albums in the USA.
Opera parts:

1963: Modiste, Der Rosenkavalier
1963, 1975: Marguerite, Somers' Louis Riel
1968: Musetta, La Bohème
1970: Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni
1970, 1979: Micaëla, Carmen
1978: Agnes Sorel, Jeanne d'Arc
1979: la comtesse, Les Noces de Figaro
1982: Alice Ford, Falstaff




Awards






References






External links


Premieres to remember // The Ukrainian Weekly, 29.09.1996, No. 39.

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