Roxolana Mykhailivna Roslak (; born 10 February 1940) is a Ukrainian-Canadian soprano singer.
Biography Roxolana Roslak was born on 10 February 1940 in Chortkov, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Chortkiv, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine).
From 1948, she lived in Edmonton, Canada and became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1953. In 1964, Roslak graduated from the Royal Conservatory and the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto.Бура Л. Несамовитий успіх // Наше Життя (Our Life), Feb. 1966, No. 2, S. 9, (Наше інтерв'ю).
Career From 1963, Roslak was a soloist with the Canadian Opera Company and the Toronto Regional Concert Bureau. She was a lecturer at the RCMT in Toronto, beginning in 1986.
She performed at opera houses in Germany (Munich, Düsseldorf), Great Britain (Royal Opera House, London; Shakespeare festival, Stratford-upon-Avon), and Switzerland (Geneva).Ukrainian singer gets Covent Garden contract // Наше Життя (Our Life), Mar. 1966, No. 3, S. 18.
Roslak gave concerts in Canada and the United States, with a major 1978 tour of the American continent including the Lincoln Center and New York City; her repertoire included (among others) works by Antonio Vivaldi, Claude Debussy, and Ukrainian folk songs. She recorded several albums in the US.
Opera roles: 1963: Modiste, Der Rosenkavalier 1963, 1975: Marguerite, Somers' Louis Riel 1968: Musetta, La Bohème 1970: Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni 1970, 1979: Micaëla, Carmen 1978: Agnes Sorel, Jeanne d'Arc 1979: la comtesse, Les Noces de Figaro 1982: Alice Ford, Falstaff
Awards YearSubjectCategoryAwardsResultRef1979Hindemith: Das Marienleben (with Glenn Gould)Best Classical Album of the YearJuno Award
References
External links Premieres to remember // The Ukrainian Weekly, 29.09.1996, No. 39.