Nicholas Skene is a Latvian Canadian operatic stage manager and director based in Toronto, Ontario. He is currently completing his B.Mus. at Western University, where Nicholas produces and directs his own productions, including most recently, a production of Euripides’ Bacchae with the classics department. The production had a cast of over 30 performers—including actors, singers, dancers, instrumentalists, and original music by composition student Pauline Boers.
Nicholas started going to the opera when he was nine years old through a ticket program at the COC, but he didn’t work on an opera production until he joined the Canadian Children’s Opera Company in 2017. Nicholas performed in COC productions of Tosca, Turandot, and Hansel and Gretle, working with established Canadian and international talent like Joel Ivany and Robert Wilson. He originated the role of Marcel in the COC-commissioned opera Fantasma, written by Métis Canadian composer Ian Cusson. The CCOC fostered an appreciation for new and Canadian opera, which still drives
Nicholas to work on the cutting edge of an ancient artform. To keep track of everything Nicholas is up to, including his production of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex in 2027, follow his instagram: @nicholaselliottskene

Daria Tereshchenko is a Canadian mezzo-soprano and a recent graduate of Mannes School of Music, where she studied under the tutelage of Amy Burton. She is a 2026 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition Encouragement Award winner (Los Angeles District), a recipient of the Prix du Domaine Forget from the 2025 Concours OSM, and an Opéra de Montréal National Auditions Finalist.
Her recent operatic performances include Silvia Lombardi in Korngold’s The Silent Serenade with Mannes Opera, Cherubino in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro with Music on Site, Beulah in Ricky Ian Gordon’s This House as part of the 2025 Works & Process Opera Series, the title role in Handel’s Silla with Chicago Summer Opera, and covering Ruggiero in Handel’s Alcina with Mannes Opera.
Equally passionate about contemporary music, Daria made her Alice Tully Hall debut as the alto soloist in Luciano Berio’s Sinfonia with the Mannes Orchestra and has also appeared as the alto soloist in John Adams’s Grand Pianola Music with the Mannes Wind Symphony.

Nicole Wilson is a Toronto-based actor, creator, director, and theatre educator driven by a deepcuriosity about people and the stories they carry. She is a co-founder of Good Old Neon, an ensemble-driven experimental performance company, and the former Artistic Director of act2studioWORKS, an educational and production company for actors aged 50+, where she championed bold, actor-led work at every stage of life. She was part of the 2024 Michael Langham Directors’ Workshop at the Stratford Festival, working alongside Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino, and recently completed her tenure as Apprentice Artistic Director to Rachel Peake at the Grand Theatre for the 2025/2026 season.
Select directing credits: Piaf/Dietrich (assistant director, Grand Theatre), Frozen (assistant director, Grand Theatre), Ivona, Princess of Burgundia (George Brown Theatre School), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (assistant director, Canadian Stage), London Assurance (assistant director, Stratford Festival), Dead Elephants (Good Old Neon), The Last Mammoth (Good Old Neon), Frankenstein(esque) (Silent Protagonist), A Lysistrata (act2studioWORKS), Us Against Everyone (Toronto Fringe Festival), One Left Hour: The Life and Work of Daniil Kharms (Good Old Neon), and Blue Remembered Hills (Good Old Neon).
Select acting credits: Mrs. White in Clue (Segal Centre), The Real Sherlock Holmes (Lighthouse Festival Theatre), UK tour of Mankind and The Pride of Life (Poculi Ludique Societas); Dead Elephants, The Two Character Play, One Left Hour: The Life and Work of Daniil Kharms, Potosi (Good Old Neon); Brimstone and Treacle (Precisely Peter Productions);The Belt and the Necklace (Odyssey Theatre); and The Seagull (Chekhov Collective at The Berkeley Theatre), Claire Tinsdale in Good Witch (seasons 6, 7). Upcoming: Carly in A Woman’s Love List (Lighthouse Festival Theatre ),iona (The Geek) in Heist Theatre Aquarius.

Tristan Wilson (b. 2002) is a composer and violist from Detroit, Michigan. Following the premiere of his Sinfonietta for string orchestra in 2014, his works have been performed regularly across the continental United States. He has enjoyed collaborations with the Grammy-nominated Neave Trio, TEMPO Ensemble, and the Julius Quartet, as well as with members of the Slee Sinfonietta, American Modern Ensemble, and Akron (OH) Symphony Orchestra. He was awarded first prize in the 2023 Cleveland Composers Guild collegiate competition for his work Five Songs, and his works are also featured on Petrichor Records’ series New Music by Living Composers, released in 2021.
He holds a Bachelor of Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied viola performance with Mark Jackobs and composition with Keith Fitch, and is currently pursuing a Master of Music at the Mannes School of Music, where he studies composition with Christopher Cerrone and David T. Little. He currently lives in New Jersey

Tkaronto-born mezzo soprano Emma Yee (she/her) is an active interdisciplinary musical artist based in Tiohtià:ke. This season, Emma is assistant directing and stage managing The Medium (Opera McGill), directed Riders to the Sea (Opera McGill), and assistant stage managed Come Closer (Opera 5). Other technical theatre credits include directing The Sapphic Passion (Sapphonix Collective) and stage-managing Dialogues des carmélites (Opera McGill), An Inspector Calls (Motyer-Fancy Theatre), and PRÉCIPICE (Tintamarre). Emma is also an active performer across opera, musical theatre, and choral scenes. Performance highlights include Cordelia in Falsettos (Contact Theatre), Bianca in The Rape of Lucretia (Opera McGill), various roles in Elegies (Opera 5), Serse in Serse (Halifax Summer Opera Festival), Sorceress in Dido & Aeneas (Opera McGill), and alto soloist in Messiah (Christ Church Cathedral). Emma is informed by her role as a performer-scholar, with a publication in Nota bene titled “Liberatory Praxis in Operatic Rehearsal Processes,” a talk at the McGill Graduate Music Symposium titled “Trains, Drones, and Continued Routes of Coloniality in Opera,” and research related to music and colonialism, music and politics, and operatic power structures. 
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Taline Yeremian is a mezzo-soprano currently residing in Toronto. She recently completed her degree in the Masters of Opera program at the University of Toronto, under the direction of Sandra Horst. Taline also completed her undergraduate degree in classical voice performance from the University of Toronto. During her time at UofT, she studied with Monica Whicher and coached with Suzy Smith. She is so thrilled to encounter new performance opportunities, roles and to work with so many talented performers and faculty. She has performed in Toronto, Edmonton, Italy and most recently France at the Académie Poulenc with the France-Canada Academy of Vocal Arts (FCAVA). In March 2026 she completed a winter residency with FCAVA in addition to her roles within her degree at UofT. Taline is always looking to explore new vocal techniques and repertoire in any language as she encounters new performance opportunities in Toronto and internationally. Taline always tries to incorporate her Armenian background into her musical career, performing Armenian song repertoire whenever she can. She is always open to a challenge and is always looking to push her own vocal boundaries to better her voice and performances.

Gregory Oh tends to wander the genres, appearing in places from the legendary Berlin techno club Berghain to Lincoln Centre. He conducted RUR A Torrent of Light (Nicole Lizée/Nic Billon) for which he received the 2022 Dora Mavor Moore award for Outstanding Musical Direction, as well as The Cave (Tomson Highway/John Millard) and Bearing (Michael Greyeyes/Signal Theatre) for the Luminato Festival, and the recording Ride the Wind with Roscoe Mitchell and the Montreal-Toronto Jazz Orchestra. On piano he premiered Scott Good’s Hands of Orlac with the London Symphonia and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, toured Rwanda and the UK with Neema Bickersteth and Century Song (Volcano), and was featured as conductor and pianist at the Shanghai New Music Festival and the Beijing Modern Music Festival. He teaches at the University of Toronto and Toronto’s Dance Arts Institute and programs Summer Music in the Garden at Harbourfront Centre.