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date = "2016-02-23T11:42:00-05:00"
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Mezzo-soprano Megan Latham is equally at home in opera, oratorio, or recital, with a voice that has been described as “clear and honey coloured” (Opera Canada). She has worked with such distinguished conductors as Harry Bicket, Will Crutchfield, Richard Bradshaw, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, David Agler, Jeanne Lamon, Johannes Debus, and Agnes Grossman. 

Upcoming this season, Megan returns to the Canadian Opera Company for Janacek’s _Cunning Little Vixen_ and for repeat engagements at Pacific Opera Victoria for Wagner’s _Die Walküre_ and Mozart’s _Le nozze di Figaro_. The 2022-2023 season saw Megan starring as the Mother Abbess in Arts Club of Vancouver’s _The Sound of Music_, as Mary in Vancouver Opera’s _Der fliegende Holländer_, and as Marcellina in the Canadian Opera Company’s _Le nozze di Figaro_.

Nicknamed “Canada’s Digital Opera Queen” by Opera Canada, Megan’s busy 2020-2021 season included the premieres of numerous digital projects including a double bill of Hoiby’s _Bon Appetit!_ and _The Italian Lesson_, as well as Elizabeth Raum’s _The Garden of Alice_, both for Pacific Opera Victoria (POV). She also sang Zita in the Canadian Opera Company’s digital production of _Gianni Schicchi_, appeared in Astrolabe Musik Theatre’s _Your Breath, My Breath: Dialogue for a Mother and Daughter_, returned to Victoria for a live reprise of her Hoiby double-bill and for Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Victoria Symphony, finally capping off her season as Buttercup in Vancouver Opera’s _H.M.S. Pinafore_. 

The British Columbia native’s 2019-2020 began with tour-de-force triple roles in Puccini's _Il trittico_ (POV). Her 2018-19 season included Gertrude in Roméo et Juliette for Calgary Opera, Flora in La traviata for (POV), and a return to Edmonton Opera for her role debut as Ragonde in _Le comte Ory_. In 2017-2018, Megan appeared as Giovanna in _Rigoletto_ and the Fortune Teller in _Arabella_ for the Canadian Opera Company, returned to Vancouver Opera to sing Filippyevna in _Eugene Onegin_, made her company debut with Opéra de Québec as Second Lady in _Die Zauberflöte_, and joined the Victoria Symphony for Verdi’s Requiem. Further recent credits include Emilia in Otello for Vancouver Opera and Third Lady in _Die Zauberflöte_ for POV, the world premieres of _Stickboy_ and _Dark Sisters_ for Vancouver Opera, Geneviève in _Pelléas et Mélisande_ for Against the Grain Theatre (AtG), Alisa in _Lucia di Lammermoor_ for Edmonton Opera and Verdi’s _Requiem_ for the Ottawa Choral Society.  

A regular with the Canadian Opera Company, Ms. Latham’s assignments there have included Voice of the Mother in _Les contes d’Hoffmann_, Zita in _Gianni Schicchi_, and Mère Jeanne in _Dialogues des Carmélites_, Rossweisse in _Die Walküre_, Marcellina in _Le nozze di Figaro_, Isaura in Rossini’s _Tancredi_, Florence Pike in the Ensemble Studio production of _Albert Herring_ and Waltraute and Second Norn in _Götterdämmerung_ (cover). Further career highlights include the Rhombus Media production of Alexina Louie’s _Politics Is Cruel: An Opera_, Verdi’s _Requiem_ for Regina Symphony, Secretary to Chairman Mao in COC’s _Nixon in China_, Eduige in POV’s _Rodelinda_, Mrs. Grose in AtG’s _The Turn of the Screw_, and Mistress Quickly in POV’s _Falstaff_. 

Among Ms. Latham‘s concert repertoire are Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Handel’s _Messiah_ and _Dixit Dominus_, Rossini’s _Petite Misse Solennelle_, Haydn’s _Nelsonmesse_, Mozart’s Krönungsmesse and Vivaldi’s _Gloria_ and _Beatus Vir_. She appeared as Sister Sophia in _The Sound of Music_ at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto, and in _Bon Appetit_ with the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony. 
