"Beste Kalender was outstanding in her interpretation of the seductive Carmen ... she projected a natural Carmen, supported by her fluid mezzo and excellent intonation." Ute Davis, Vice-President, NCOS 2011
April 26th, 2013 - Updates
Beste Kalender will be a guest soloist at Ottawa Classical Choir’s “Verdi’s Greatest Arias and Choruses”.
Saturday May 4, 7:30pm
Dominion-Chalmers United Church
355 rue Cooper St., Ottawa
March 17th, 2013 - Upcoming, Updates
On March 20 & 22 of 2013, Beste will be playing Zerlina in The Glenn Gould School Opera’s spring production “Don Giovanni” at the Koerner Hall. To purchase tickets, please visit The Royal Conservatory online box office.
October 9th, 2012 - Upcoming, Updates
In November 2012, Beste will be playing Ellen in The Glenn Gould School Opera’s fall production “Three Sisters who are not Sisters”. To purchase tickets, please visit The Royal Conservatory online box office.
December 31st, 2011 - Upcoming, Updates
In June 2012, Beste Kalender will be playing the role La Zia Principessa in Puccini’s Suor Angelica. The performance is part of the Opera on the Avalon Music Festival 2012, which takes place this summer in Newfoundland.
December 31st, 2011 - Upcoming, Updates
Beste Kalender will be playing the role Endimione in Cavalli’s La Calisto with the GGS OPera at the Koerner Hall on March 21st and 23rd, 2012. To purchase tickets, please visit
https://tickets.rcmusic.ca/public/.
December 31st, 2011 - Updates
In December 2011, Beste Kalender played the Third Lady in Mozart’s The Magic Flute with the GGS Opera.
Pictures from the performance are to follow.
December 31st, 2011 - Updates
In October 2011, Beste Kalender played the title role in Handel’s Orlando.
July 10th, 2011 - Updates
August 29th – September 1st 2011
Recording session for the premiere of a newly commissioned work.
Andrea Mellis, Artistic Director and William Shookhoof, Musical Director, Sieggraben, Austria
More details to follow.
May 9th, 2011 - Updates
Beste will be on stage in May 2011, in the title role of Pellegrini Opera’s CARMEN by Bizet.
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April 14th, 2011 - Updates
Beste will be on stage as Kate in April 2011, in Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance with Toronto Operetta Theatre.
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