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Mary Lou Fallis - Dinner Series* - Saturday, November 6, 2010

*Please note. Food and beverages are NOT included in the ticket price

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If you read the history page on this web site, you'll find a story about Mary Lou Fallis' first performance at Bragg Creek. We are not actually sure of the year, but it was in the early part of our 30 years. Her first show in Bragg Creek was Primadonna and it was one of the most memorable in our history. This performance will be 'More or Less Live'.

Mary Lou Fallis holds a unique position in the music scene as "Canada's foremost musical comedienne." Known to thousands of viewers and listeners across the country for the Bravo! television series Bathroom Divas, her CBC Radio series Diva Diaries, and to hundreds of theatre-goers for her Primadonna series of one-woman shows, Ms. Fallis in her inimitable way, has re-invented the classical music comedy genre.

A favourite of the late great Anna Russell, Ms. Fallis made her operatic debut at 16 years of age as the Second Spirit in a CBC Television production of Mozart's The Magic Flute. After obtaining the first Master's degree in Performance and Literature from the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, her career has encompassed performances of major oratorios and choral works with leading orchestras, as well as opera - with roles ranging from Despina in Cosi fan Tutte to Zerbinetta in R. Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos. In addition to her North American engagements Ms. Fallis has toured the United Kingdom extensively, appearing in London's West End, Covent Garden International Festival, the Wexford Opera Festival, and the Edinburgh International Festival. More recent seasons have included appearances in Japan and Iceland.

Ms. Fallis is best known as the creator and interpreter of very original one-woman shows: the ACTRA award-winning, Dora-nominated Primadonna, based on her own life as a singer, and its two sequels Primadonna's First Farewell Tour; and Primadonna Does More With Less, which was premiered at the Guelph Spring Festival; Emma, Queen of Song about the real-life Canadian diva, Emma Albani; The Mrs. Bach Show hosted by Anna Magdalena, wife of J.S. Bach; and Ms. Mozart, the story of Wolfgang's sister Nannerl (created for the 1991 Mozart bicentennial). The latest incarnations are are Primadonna on a Moose turned into a popular CD with members of the Toronto Symphony and the Primadonna goes Camping premiered outdoors on a wilderness Lake in Haliburton at the Forest Festival

Ms Fallis' Diva Diaries was a popular Friday afternoon series on CBC Radio's Take Five, which featured the Primadonna's personal and hilarious observations about her travels, both real and imaginary, across Canada.

Ms. Fallis was the music producer of the Gemini award winning Bathroom Divas, a new six-part reality TV series that quickly developed a cult following. Opera's answer to American Idol, Bathroom Divas featured Ms. Fallis as part of a jury selecting the grand-prize winner from hundreds of hopefuls in a nation-wide challenge.

Ms Fallis lives in Toronto with her husband and a very woolly dog named Percy.

Tracks

Reviews

The funniest soprano in the world
- Canadian Living Magazine

A monument to intelligent mirth! It's hard to find her equal anywhere.
- The Toronto Star

Canada's foremost musical comedienne
- William Littler - Toronto Star

Web Site

Mary Lou Fallis' Web Site

 

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