Máiri Demings

Heels or flats? HEELS duh – I am a verified shoe addict. Top 3 favourite composers? This is ever evolving and nobody can truly pick favorites, this year I will say however that I listened to A LOT of Fazil Say, Osvaldo Golijov and ROSALĺA. Listening to these composers has made me so inspired and excited to be a an artist in classical music.

Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins takes us to San Francisco, California, where he is singing the role of Figaro in Rossini‘s The Barber of Seville at San Francisco Opera until June 20th (tickets and info). Joshua is a Juno award-winning and Grammy nominated artist.

When was your first singing lesson? Probably not a surprise but singing has always been a part of my life. My first singing “lessons” were at the farm next to ours with my dad’s cousin, preparing for the Saskatchewan Valley Music Festival, where I competed as both a pianist and singer starting when I was six years old. Drink of choice? Chardonnay, of course. Heels or flats? I’m barely 5’2”… heels. What’s something most people don’t know about opera life?