Opera Buffs

OPERA ATELIER’S founding Co-Artistic Directors, Marshall Pynkoski C.M. and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg C.M. joined together forming the most splendid opera company in the world that I have had the privilege to watch.

Spectacular comes to mind. Best performing artists in the world right here in TORONTO. It will make your day and then some!!! These extraordinary live performances will continue to bring joy to your heart.

Baroque Style Brought To Life

Marshall Pynkoski

Marshall Pynkoski’s productions of opera and ballet have toured throughout North America, Europe and Asia. He is a recipient of numerous awards including the Toronto Arts Award, the Ruby Award for outstanding contribution to opera in Canada, and the TIME Magazine award for Classical music. 

Marshall has directed a wide range of period productions of baroque and early classical opera and ballet in close collaboration with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. He has acted as a guest instructor at the Centre for Baroque Studies, Versailles under conductor Marc Minkowski and has collaborated with many of the finest artists in the world of early music. 

Jannette Lajeunesse Zingg

Ms. Zingg has received the prestigious Toronto Arts Award, the Opera Canada Ruby Award for outstanding achievement in the field of opera in Canada and was named by TIME Magazine as one of Canada’s most influential artists in Classical music

Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg is associated with the Faculty of Music at U. of T., the Royal Conservatory, the Glenn Gould School, Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute and throughout Europe and Asia. For three years she acted as Principal Guest Instructor at the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles in France.