The Canadian soprano Stefanie True is equally at home on the opera and concert stages. As an expert in early music, she appears in Europe, North America and at international festivals.
Important opera performances include Poppea in Handel’s Agrippina at The Grange Festival, Oriana (Amadigi di Gaula) and Clomiri (Imeneo) at the International Handel Festival in Göttingen, Belinda (Dido and Aeneas) at the Regensburg Early Music Days, Céphise in Campra’s L’Europe galante at the Festival d’Ambronay and Purcell’s King Arthur with Vox Luminis. She also created the role of Cécile de Volanges in Vivaldi’s operatic pasticcio Les Liaisons dangereuses in the version by OPERA2DAY.
On the concert platform she regularly appears with Vox Luminis under Lionel Meunier. She has also performed with chamber and Baroque orchestras such as the Academy of Ancient Music, Les Violons du Roy under Richard Egarr, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Harry Bicket, La Risonanza under Fabio Bonizzoni, the Netherlands Bach Society under Jos van Veldhoven and Shunske Sato, the Nieuwe Philharmonie Utrecht under Johannes Leertouwer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Midori Seiler and Sigiswald Kuijken.
Solo concerts have taken her to festivals such as the Musiktage Mondsee, the Utrecht Early Music Festival, the Handel Festival in Halle and the Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto.
She has participated in numerous recordings, including the prize-winning recording of Dussek’s Messe Solemnelle with the Academy of Ancient Music, Mannaggia Amore featuring solo cantatas by Giuseppe Porsile with La Cicala, French cantatas by Jean-Baptiste Morin with Ensemble Lautenwerk, Ballets et récits italiens featuring works by Lully with La Risonanza, and many CDs with Vox Luminis including Buxtehude: Abendmusiken, Purcell: King Arthur, Bach’s Magnificat, Charpentier’s Orphée aux enfers and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.
Stefanie True studied singing at York University in Toronto and early music at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. In 2010 she won second prize in the John Kerr Award in Kent and in 2011 she was awarded the first prize in the International Handel Singing Competition in London.
