Roxolana Roslak

Roxolana Roslak was born on 10 February 1940 in Chortkiv, now Chortkiv urban hromada, Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.^[1][2]

From 1948 she lived in Edmonton, Canada. In 1964, Roslak graduate of the Royal Conservatory and the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto.^[1][2][3]

From 1963, she has been a soloist with the Canadian Opera Company and the Toronto Regional Concert Bureau, and a lecturer at the RCMT in Toronto (from 1986).^[1][2][3]

Roslak has performed at opera houses in Germany (Munich, Düsseldorf), Great Britain (Royal Opera House, London; Shakespeare festival, Stratford-upon-Avon), and Switzerland (Geneva).^[1][2][3][4]

Roslak gave concerts in Canada and the United States (1978 – a large tour of the American continent; including in Lincoln Center, New York City^[5][6]); her repertoire includes works by Antonio Vivaldi, Claude Debussy, and Ukrainian folk songs. She has recorded several albums in the USA.^[1][2]

Opera parts:^[1]

• 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