Adele Kozak made her operatic debut with the Vancouver Opera Company, where she appeared in the role of Annina and understudied Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata. Ms. Kozak’s many other roles have included Magda in Menotti’s The Consul with Opera Anonymous in Toronto, Tatiana in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Susannah in Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, Hanna in Lehár’s The Merry Widow, Rosalinda in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus, Catherine in Floyd’s Wuthering Heights ,Georgetta in Opera York’s inaugural production of Puccini’s Il Tabarro, Deirdre in Willan’s Deirdre of the Sorrows with Opera in Concert, and most recently she was invited back by Opera York for her powerful stand-out performance in the lead role of Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur.

Elsewhere, Ms. Kozak has appeared with the Alaska Symphony as a featured soloist in J.S. Bach’s Cantata No. 199 and with a host of other symphonies and Ensembles, most notably the York Symphony Orchestra, the North York Symphony, and The Mooredale Concerts.

She appeared as a guest soloist at the Gravenhurst Opera House, at Cobourg, Ontario’s stately Victoria Hall , at a gala Opera Recitals evening for yet another invitation by Opera York and she has also had a number of guest appearances with Toronto's Tryptych Productions, most recently in the demanding role of Odabella in Verdi's opera Attila.

Most recently, Miss Kozak performed in a gala concert for Pope John Paul II at the World Youth Day celebrations in Toronto.

Ms. Kozak is a graduate from the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto where she received the coveted Distinguished Graduate Award and scholarship. She also received the Joe Boxer Memorial Scholarship from the Vancouver Opera Foundation.

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