Uploaded June 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Soprano singer/songwriter Charlotte Siegel uses her voice and her compositions to offer a personal response to the pressing issues faced by diverse artists in opera.
A Toronto-born classical soprano, songwriter, and performer, Charlotte has just completed a Graduate Diploma in Opera and Voice at McGill University and was to have been a Resident Artist for Pacific Opera Victoria’s 40 Days of Opera in summer 2020 until the COVID-19 pandemic intervened.
"The past few weeks have been the heaviest I’ve ever felt. As a classical singer I am used to feeling the weight and responsibility of my blackness, but it feels different now. In the wake of the brutal murder of George Floyd people are finally awakening. It has taken long enough, and black people are tired! I feel angry, I feel numb, I feel everything. Between the social media posts, the news, and discussions, I kept searching for a way to lend my voice in a productive way. So I thank Rebecca Hass and Pacific Opera for giving me the space to respond to this moment in time in the best way I know how. I sincerely hope that we use this momentum to create a world where we don’t have to notice colour."
- Charlotte Siegel
Lunchbox Opera will be available to watch on Facebook, on InstagramTV, on YouTube, and at PACIFICOPERA.CA
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Lunchbox Opera Online
pacificopera.ca/event/lunchbox-opera-online
Sponsored by PARC Retirement Living (https://parcliving.ca)
Opera ETC from our home to your home
Physically Distant | Socially Connected programs
PACIFICOPERA.CA
Produced by: Rebecca Hass & Shine*ola Communications
Pianist: Ivan Jovanovic
Chapters
0:00 Interview intro
6:00 - 9:01 Blackness
9:02 Imposed stories
11:00 Representation
13:30 Introduction to Singing
16:01 Program prologue
22:40 Songwriting
24:00 Are you hopeful?
25:00 What do you do to nourish yourself?
28:00 'Crucifixion'
30:04 'Your Daddy's Son'
33:84 'Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child'
36:45 'We Will Trust You as Our Leader'
40:01 Charlotte Siegel's song
Soprano singer/songwriter Charlotte Siegel uses her voice and her compositions to offer a personal response to the pressing issues faced by diverse artists in opera.
A Toronto-born classical soprano, songwriter, and performer, Charlotte has just completed a Graduate Diploma in Opera and Voice at McGill University and was to have been a Resident Artist for Pacific Opera Victoria’s 40 Days of Opera in summer 2020 until the COVID-19 pandemic intervened.
"The past few weeks have been the heaviest I’ve ever felt. As a classical singer I am used to feeling the weight and responsibility of my blackness, but it feels different now. In the wake of the brutal murder of George Floyd people are finally awakening. It has taken long enough, and black people are tired! I feel angry, I feel numb, I feel everything. Between the social media posts, the news, and discussions, I kept searching for a way to lend my voice in a productive way. So I thank Rebecca Hass and Pacific Opera for giving me the space to respond to this moment in time in the best way I know how. I sincerely hope that we use this momentum to create a world where we don’t have to notice colour."
- Charlotte Siegel
Lunchbox Opera will be available to watch on Facebook, on InstagramTV, on YouTube, and at PACIFICOPERA.CA
* * *
Lunchbox Opera Online
pacificopera.ca/event/lunchbox-opera-online
Sponsored by PARC Retirement Living (https://parcliving.ca)
Opera ETC from our home to your home
Physically Distant | Socially Connected programs
PACIFICOPERA.CA
Produced by: Rebecca Hass & Shine*ola Communications
Pianist: Ivan Jovanovic
Chapters
0:00 Interview intro
6:00 - 9:01 Blackness
9:02 Imposed stories
11:00 Representation
13:30 Introduction to Singing
16:01 Program prologue
22:40 Songwriting
24:00 Are you hopeful?
25:00 What do you do to nourish yourself?
28:00 'Crucifixion'
30:04 'Your Daddy's Son'
33:84 'Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child'
36:45 'We Will Trust You as Our Leader'
40:01 Charlotte Siegel's song
