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date = "2015-12-29T21:30:00-05:00"
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Baritone James Levesque is at home on both the concert and operatic stage and has been noted for his “expressive singing and acting abilities” (*Opera Canada*). He has performed on both sides of the Atlantic with such conductors as Harry Bicket, Richard Egarr, Jean-Marie Zeitouni, Raffi Armenian and Robert Dean.

Highlights of past seasons include: Handel’s *Messiah* and Mozart’s *Requiem* with the Mississauga Choral Society; an Offenbach Gala with Toronto Operetta Theatre; Handel’s *Messiah* and Mozart’s *Vesperae solennes* de Confessore with the Thunder Bay Symphony; Duruflé’s *Requiem* with the Toronto Beach Chorale; Mozart’s *Requiem* with the Pax Christi Chorale; Schubert’s *Winterreise* and *Die schöne Müllerin* with the Mountain View Connection; Haydn’s *Creation* with the Ottawa Valley Music Festival; Bach’s Cantata BWV 201 with the Bach Society of Calgary; Haydn’s *The Seasons* with the Alyth Choral Society (London, UK); Purcell’s *Fairy Queen* under conductor Harry Bicket in the Aldeburgh Festival; Handel’s *L’Allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato* with the BPBO under conductor Richard Egarr, as part of the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme; a guest artist solo recital at Brock University; Hugo Wolf & His Poets and the 12th Annual Greta Kraus Schubertiade, with the Aldeburgh Connection; Simon in Handel’s *Judas Maccabaeus* with Ensemble TrypTych; Malcolm Williamson’s *World at the Manger* and John Beckwith’s *Great Lakes Suite* with the Mississauga Choral Society; Saint-Saëns’ *Christmas Oratorio*, Mozart’s *Requiem* and Haydn’s *Seven Last Words of Christ On the Cross* with the Festival Chorus of Calgary.

Recent roles include: Fiorello and the Sergeant Rossini’s *Il barbiere di Siviglia* with Opera Hamilton; Balthazar in Menotti’s *Amahl and the Night Visitors* with Choralis Camerata; the title role in Tchaikovsky’s *Eugene Onegin* with Opera by Request; Count Perrucchetto in Haydn’s *La Feldelta Premiatá* and Achilla in Handel’s *Giulio Cesare* with Opera in Concert; Mark in the world premiere of John Estacio’s *Frobisher* with Calgary Opera (broadcast live on CBC Radio), and the title role on tour through the Canadian Arctic; Tsar Alexander I in the Canadian Opera Company’s production of Prokofiev’s *War and Peace*; Jacob in Dean Burry’s *Brothers Grimm*, First Priest in Mozart’s *Magic Flute* and Old Andy in Allan Bell’s *Turtle Wakes* with Calgary Opera; Marco in Puccini’s *Gianni Schicchi* with Opera York; Melisso in Handel’s *Alcina*, the title role in Puccini’s *Gianni Schicchi* and Don Annibale in Rossini’s *Il Campanello di notte* with Essential Opera and at the New Hamburg Live Festival of the Arts; the title role in Mozart’s *Don Giovanni*, Count Almaviva in Mozart’s *Marriage of Figaro* and Manuel in de Falla’s *La vida breve* with Summer Opera Lyric Theatre; Ben in Menotti’s *The Telephone* for a Brock University performance; Sam in Leonard Bernstein’s *Trouble in Tahiti* with the Glenn Gould Professional School.  James also created the role of William Draper in the world premiere of Gary Kulesha’s *The Last Duel* with the University of Toronto’s Opera Division.

James is also a member of the delightfully versatile group Bravura, who are thrilling audiences across the country with their range of Broadway, pop, and Classical music.
