Cory Knight, Tenor

Pacific Opera Victoria
Gastone in La traviata
October, 2009

Cory Knight is participating in Pacific Opera Victoria's Fall 2009 Resident Artist Program and will make his POV mainstage debut in October 2009 as Gastone in La traviata.

Described as the quintessential light lyric tenor, Cory Knight is beginning to secure a place among Canada's rising young talent. In the fall of 2007 Mr. Knight made his operatic debut as Telemaco in Opera Atelier's production of Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria.

Engagements for the 2008/2009 season included a return to Opera Atelier as Lucano in The Coronation of Poppea, Mendelssohn's Hymn of Praise with the Toronto Sinfonietta, Bach's Cantata 61 and Buxtehude's Quemadmodum desiderat cervus with the Toronto Chamber Choir and Handel's Messiah with Orchestra London and Toronto Classical Singers.

Past engagements include the role of Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville, Charlie in Kurt Weil's Mahagonny Songspiel, Lysander in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Il Principe in Respighi's La bella dormente nel bosco. In the spring of 2008 Mr. Knight toured with Tapestry New Opera in the title role of James Rolfe's Elijah's Kite.

On the concert stage Mr. Knight has appeared as the Roasted Swan in Carmina Burana, the tenor soloist in Handel's Messiah, Mozart's Requiem and Grand Mass in C Minor, and Haydn's The Creation and The Seasons.

Mr. Knight is a graduate of the Advanced Diploma Program at the Glenn Gould School. He has been a member of the Toronto Summer Music Academy Opera Studio and has studied in Italy as part of the Daniel Ferro Vocal Program. He also holds a Bachelor of Education and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from York University.

July, 2009