City Opera

Soprano, Michelle Keobke, [kepp’key] recently returned from a 7 month apprenticeship with Calgary Opera’s 'Emerging Artist Program'. With Calgary Opera this year Michelle sang the role of Kate in the world premier of Estacio/Murell’s ‘Frobisher’ broadcast Nationally over CBC Radio. She also sang the role of Dortchen (Burry’s ‘The Brother’s Grimm’)in their school tour as well as other performances/galas and training in voice, dance, acting, and stage fighting. Michelle's operatic performances have encompassed tragic roles such as Tatyana (Tchaikovsky’s ‘Eugene Onegin’) and Donna Anna (Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’), both performed in the Czech Republic, as well as spirited characters such as Zerlina (Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’), Menotti’s Lucy (‘The Telephone’) and Gretel (Humperdinck’s ‘Hansel und Gretel’). For Michelle’s final year at UBC she performed Mozart's clever maid,Susanna (‘Le Nozze di Figaro’), to great success, bowing with her colleagues to full houses at the Chan Center under the direction of Tyrone Paterson. In addition to opera, Michelle's enthusiastic passion for art song has led her to present many independent recitals in Vancouver. This past year Michelle was invited by Rena Sharon to take part as a special guest Soprano in the 'Follow the Lieder' lecture series put on by the Vancouver Recital Society. Michelle has also been a soloist with the Canada’s National Youth Orchestra, the West Coast Symphony Orchestra, UBC Chamber Strings, Richmond Orchestral and Choral Association, as well as Sinfonia - Orchestra of the North Shore, where she sang under the baton of Maestro Clyde Mitchell. In 2002, Michelle made her solo debut on the stage of the Orpheum Theatre in a concert: "Stars of Tomorrow". At this event she was a honored with a scholarship from the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame. The following year Michelle went on to compete in the Senior Voice Class of the BC Provincial Festival, representing Vancouver, where she received 1st prize. Michelle is currently enjoying new married life with her husband, singer/lutenist, Jacob Doherty and expecting the joyous arrival of their first child in Februrary of 2008.


Dominique Hogan, BMus, MMus

Dominique is a Vancouver based professional musical director, accompanist, arranger and MIDI programmer and has worked and taught in Vancouver, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Maine, and Montreal. Her most recent work was as musical director and MIDI programmer/arranger for the North Shore Light Opera Society’s production of Orpheus , Gone To Hell!, an original adaptation of Offenbach’s operetta, Orphée Aux Enfers. For this production she fully orchestrated the accompaniment and played it live from her macbook. Her most memorable credits include: Musical director: And the World Goes 'Round, Romance, Romance., She Loves Me, The Robber Bridegroom, Broadway in the 90s - a musical review, Bye Bye Birdie, Once Upon a Mattress, The Wizard of Oz, Musical director/vocal arranger for Not in Earnest!, an original musical adaptation of The Importance of Being Ernest, Assistant Music Director/accompanist: Into the Woods, Closer than Ever. Composer for the children's play Just So Stories with the children’s troupe Imagination Station in Santa Monica, CA. She has also done numerous MIDI "backtracks" for dance schools, professional singers and theatres.

Dominique holds a Master's Degree in musical directing for musical theatre/lyric opera from Arizona State University, where she attended under full scholarship, a Bachelor of music degree in music theory, from McGill University, and a Diploma of Collegiale Studies in Piano Performance from Marianopolis College in Montreal. www.cityoperavancouver.com