Staff Listing

W.R. (Bob) McPhee: General Director & CEO

Administrative/finance

Sherri Rau: Director of Finance
Averil Cook: Executive Assistant
Margit Svee: Bookkeeper

Artistic

Gordon Gerrard: Repetiteur/Resident Conductor
Sandra Atkinson: Chorus Director
John Bouz: Chorus Accompanist/Opera Titles

Education & Outreach

Emily Forrest: Education & Outreach Coordinator

Development/Marketing/Customer Service

Helen Moore-Parkhouse: Director of Development & Marketing
Brian O’Neill: Box Office & Tessitura Manager
Jay Blue: Special Events Manager

Larry Lefebvre: Box Office Assistant

Lesley Hinger: Development & Marketing Assistant

Alex Bonyun: Writer / Publicist

Production

Tom McCarthy: Director of Production
Murray Palmer: Technical Director
Bonni Baynton: Stage Manager
Donna Sharpe: Assistant Stage Manager

Amy Lippold : Assistant Stage Manager

Ansa Schau: Head of Wardrobe

Waunita Simmons: Head of Props

Gail Kennedy: Head Make-Up Artist

Laura de Moissac: Head Wig and Hair Artist

Emerging Artist Development Program

Mel Kirby: Coordinator, Emerging Artist Development Program

Anita Miotti: Movement for Actors Instructor

Grant Reddick: Text Analysis & Actors Instructor

J.P. Fournier: Fight and Combat Instructor

Dawn Johnson, Sandra & Ernie Atkninson, and Philip & Eleanor May: Voice Instructors

Laryssa Yanchak, Adrian Young: Assisting Fight Instructors

Calgary Opera is proud to work with the professional stage hands and artisans provided by IATSE Local 212