Join host Stefania Passamonte as she sits down with Miriam Khalil, an acclaimed Lebanese-Canadian soprano, to explore her remarkable journey from Damascus to becoming an internationally recognized opera artist. Miriam shares her captivating origin story—how singing became her way of finding courage as a child, her transformative first opera experience, and her path to performing at prestigious venues like Glyndebourne Festival Opera. With warmth and vulnerability, she describes her magical summers in England and how those early professional triumphs shaped her career.
The episode takes a deeply personal turn as Miriam discusses her debut album, a groundbreaking project that weaves together her Arabic heritage with classical opera traditions. Born from a serendipitous meeting with legendary conductor Oswaldo Golija at the Banff Center, the album features the complex medieval piece “Irae,” performed with eleven world-class soloists. Through songs like “Mañanita de San Juan,” listeners are invited to experience how Miriam is revolutionizing opera by championing multiculturalism and making this traditionally European art form accessible to diverse audiences during a critical cultural moment.
Main Topics
Miriam Khalil is a Lebanese-Canadian soprano born in Damascus, Syria, who moved to Canada at age seven and discovered opera as her true calling during her first university performance
Her breakthrough came through Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 2009 when she was selected as cover for Cleopatra in 'Giulio Cesare' after an agent submitted her recording
Her debut album features 'Irae,' a medieval piece composed by Oswaldo Golija that celebrates five languages—Sephardic Ladino, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish, and Sardinian—that coexisted historically in southern Spain
Miriam uses her Arabic language skills and unique vocal colors to bridge cultural divides in opera, making the traditionally European art form relevant to diverse audiences worldwide
She advocates for opera's evolution through HD cinema and streaming, making it more accessible and introducing multicultural perspectives during a time when cultural unity is increasingly important
Her artistic journey was shaped by a brilliant voice teacher at age 14 who strategically replaced pop songs with art songs and arias to develop her classical talent
The album is a live recording from a special performance in Toronto with Against the Grain Theatre, personally coached by composer Oswaldo Golija himself
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Foreign. Welcome to future Classic Women Awards with me, Stefania Passamonte on women's radio station the program where we search for the most amazing new female artist on the classical Panorama. Today on future Classic Women Awards, we will be talking to Miriam Khalil, an amazing lepanese Canadian soprano from. From Toronto. She is lauded as a skilled, versatile artist with a signature warm, lyrical voice. So. Hello, Miriam. Hello, Stefania. Hello. How is the weather there in Canada, in Toronto? It's actually quite. It's quite lovely today. We finally have a little bit of snow on the ground. We've been waiting for this. Yeah. Where with rain today in London. Oh, too bad. Oh, well. So, Miriam, you've been in the UK for the amazing Glen Moon Festival Opera. So how did you find your experience here in England? I love England so much. So in 2009, I was still a pretty young artist, but I sang for an agent and she said, you should. You should sing for Glyndborn because they're looking for a cover for Cleopatra in David McVicker's Giulio Cesare. So I got very excited and I said, okay, well, I'll send you a recording. And I didn't think anything would happen, but literally that same week, maybe two days later, she called me around 5am Toronto time. So it was like 10am UK time. And thankfully, I didn't get the message till I woke up. But. But she just said, you know, they like the recording. When can you fly out? They want to hear you this week. So I went there, auditioned and got it. And that was, you know, after that. Like, I. My previous relationship with that was the Alboro Festival. So just very magical experiences in the uk. And so, you know, one summer I lived in London and commuted to Lewis, and so I just kind of fell in love with it so much. It's a beautiful, beautiful country and a dream place to live. Yeah. And the festival is like. I can't even describe. Like, I remember feeling like I was in this really strange, beautiful dream where you just. Like you're in heaven, basically. I know. I think every time I think about England and, you know, the amazing things that are here. And I think, you know, Alice in Wonderland I think is not that difficult to imagine something like that. Particularly Lewis and Glymon, you know, having a picnic before going to an opera. I mean, that's quite a unique experience. I mean, totally unreal. So, Miriam, how did you decide to become an opera singer? Well, I started singing when I was three. And I'll try to make this story short, but I Used to sing because I was afraid. I was afraid of a lot of things. But I used to sing to sort of be brave. And one of the things that my parents did, they put me in the church choir and my father used to sing as well. And then when we moved to Canada, that was sort of like my only thing that I knew how to do to connect with the other kids. I didn't speak English or French when we started, but the first thing I did is I joined the choir and one of the first songs I learned was Greatest Love of All by Whitney Houston. And I brought it home and that became kind of. She became my idol for a very long time. I wanted to be the next Whitney Houston. And then I got a very wonderful voice teacher when I was 14. And she just said, you know, Miriam, your voice is not normal. Like you don't have a typical 14 year old voice. You've already got vibrato. It's developed like you, you know, you're very natural singer. So she, she kept saying, you know, for every pop song you bring me, I'm going to give you an art song or an aria. And so she, you know, eliminated my pop repertoire by the time, you know, I was finished with her. Very clever. I'm like, there's no point in bringing the pop, you know, she doesn't enjoy teaching it to me, so I might as well just. And I started to really love it. And I did a year in music therapy co op where I worked at basically an old age home with different units. And we did, we worked with them on movement, on memory, on depending on the dementia level. And so I decided I would do music therapy, but I had to do music when I entered university. I see. So I, yeah, so I majored in voice and I did my first opera, which was Dialogue des Carmelites. And that was it for me. I was like, I don't think I can do music therapy anymore because it completely changed me. It was like the first kind of encounter with opera. So that's the short and long story. So tell me then about your debut album. So this album is something very close to my heart because in 2008 I did a project with a conductor who he was actually the French horn player on the original recording. And he said, you know, Miriam, you should look at this piece because you speak Arabic and you have these strange colors in your voice. So I kind of listened to it and I was absolutely in shock because I recognized two of the pieces. I had sung them my whole life in Easter Mass on Good Friday And I thought, this is unbelievable. I feel like I was born to sing this. I love Spanish music, I love those colors, I love folk music. But I hadn't explored that part of myself in so long. So, you know, Fast forward to 2016. I did this Arabic O Canada, our national anthem in Arabic. And it kind of went viral. So Barry Shifmin, a very well known violinist, came and asked me if I would do some Arabic repertoire at the Banff Center. And he, he said Oswaldo Galiha would be there. And so he said, would you want to do a project called Irae? I don't know if you've ever heard of it. I said, have I heard of it? It's my dream piece. Like this is on my bucket list of things I would love to do. He said, well, let's make it happen. So as you know, it's not an easy piece to put together. You have to have 11 world class soloists, basically. And then I get to sing with these incredible musicians. So as a result, it was very serendipitous. We staged it and we did it with against the Grain Theatre here in Toronto. And that is the recording, it's a live recording of what we did here in Toronto a few months after our band performance where I met Oswaldo. He helped us workshop the whole thing. He was involved every step of the way. And then he came to Toronto and he coached the first half of the concert as well as Aire. And then he also gave two very beautiful speeches. One of them is actually on this disc. Wonderful. So shall we listen to the first song? That is Mananita de San Juan Morning in St John Day. Range ham. Nabi. Seek out. Sam. Of your. Sam. And this was Mananita de San Juan Morning of St John Day, sung by the amazing Miriam Khalil. We will be back after a short break. Welcome to women's radio station, the voice of women worldwide. I'm Sarah Louise Ryan and welcome to Love Lessons live on women's Radio station. 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Moreover, our sponsorship and advertising packages can be tailored to your needs, whether it be a product or brand service you're looking to promote. If you are interested in sponsoring or advertising, please contact me on 079-563-71483 or alternately zmomewomensradiostation.com. Welcome back to future Classic Women Awards on Women's Radio Station, the program where we search for the most amazing new female artists on the Classical Panorama. Today we are talking to Miran Khalil, an amazing acclaimed Canadian singer with Lebanese heritage. Actually, Miriam, you were telling us that you are not born in Canada, so are you from Lebanon? My, my family is Lebanese but we, I grew up, I was born and I grew up in Damascus, Syria, so we moved when I was seven from there and yeah, and I have three older brothers so it was, it was a great place to come to Canada. So I read that this album that we've been talking about is a very special album because it's also in a way crossing over to a different culture to your Origins. What do you think about the meaning of opera today? I think opera right now is seeing a really big revolution of. It's very visual. It's becoming a very visual art. I mean, it's always been very visual, but with the cinemas in HD and everything like that, it's becoming very much part of a mainstream that was not there before. So it's much more accessible to a wider audience. And so as a result, I think we're reaching, because it is a European art, I think we're reaching people of different cultures, different backgrounds, different experiences, much more readily. Because, you know, tickets, obviously, in the movie theaters are a lot less expensive than going to the live show. It's not the same, obviously, but so I think it's really important to sort of access parts of ourselves that I think we all have different parts of ourselves that we can kind of channel that help to create something relevant and beautiful. And especially in a time right now where multiculturalism is so important. Like, we are in a time right now where we're being kind of battled on differences and not being able to show differences. And so we kind of have to combat that by really being honest about who we are and sharing that with everybody, all cultures. And so this particular piece, I. You know, it's a little bit political because we, you know, he. Oswaldo Galija, he wrote it to be languages that coexisted in the south of Spain and no longer coexist in peace. So you have, you know, Sephardic. So Ladino. The Sephardic Jews spoke Ladino, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish and Sardinian. So these are all languages that coexisted. And when you hear the sounds that are being made in this recording, you see that there's really not that much difference. They all sound incredibly exotic and very beautiful, and the rhythms are very similar and they kind of draw at the same part of your soul. And so to be able to sort of share this type of experience with especially people that are really kind of trying to listen to opera that they can relate to. It's very exciting. It's very exciting. Yes, indeed. So if I can ask you, then, the next song that you would like to listen to, what would that be from your album? It's called Nani. It's a traditional Sephardic lullaby, and it's about a mother singing to her child. But then she says, your father is coming. But then when the father comes, she says, you may not come in because I know who you've been with. And it's an. It's your new love. So it's very sort of. It's traditional, but it's a very different kind of lullaby. I wouldn't expect that type of talking, you know, in a lullaby. Exactly. Let's listen to it then. Sa. Ra. Sa. Sam sa. Sam. Sa. And this was a lullaby sang by Miriam Khalil. Miriam. Going back to the opera then. Do you have any favorite role? I have a few right now. My two favorites are Mimi from La Boheme and Donna Elvira from Don Giovanni. And Mimi because she's so sensitive and open and just very real. And Don Alvira because she's so over the top dramatic and she has such a kind of like a big. She has a big, big change in character to the end of the opera. And I. That really exciting. All right, and which one is the funniest role you've sung so far? I think Donna Alvira, because she kind of flies off the handle. She's temperamental. But then she also has these really beautiful, moving moments. She's a little bit of everything, so she's very exciting. And if you had to imagine an opera today made with the song from your album, for example, So I don't know, you just told us about the lullaby that is actually telling the father not to come in because he's been with another woman. So that made me think about Giovanni straight away. What do you think would be the best character singing your album? I think I can't think of, like, a specific character, but someone that can sort of embody a huge array of different people. Because the thing is with this album is each one of them is a very different song from the other. Like, for example, you have the first one, which is about a narrator speaking about the battle between the Christians and the Moors and the Captain Rondale who gets captured, and then the princess who proposes to him. He says no, and she kills him. The second one is about a mother who roasts and eats her children. And it's a lamentation of Jeremiah, but it's one of the most peaceful, beautiful sounding songs. And then in number three, you have like this extremely, very, very violent sounding person screaming to the barons that they will unhorse the barons and they will tear down the walls that the barons are building around their cities. So it's very, very. It's a very interesting album because you can't really pin it down to anyone specific. But each song has its own life. And at the same time, when you hear it in sequence, one after the other, it takes you on this really incredible journey. Very interesting. We will be back After a short break with more insight about this amazing album. Women's Radio Station is a fresh new broadcasting platform driven by love and passion. Connecting women around the world in a global network is all about diversity from opinions, career, ethnicity, education. We aim to show the individuality of every woman everywhere, providing opportunities and a platform for your voice. Women, the possibilities are endless. That's what makes us different. 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Welcome back to future Classic Women Awards on Women's Radio station, the program where we search for the most amazing new female artists on the classical Panorama. Today we are talking to Lebanese Canadian singer Miriam Khalil. Miriam, we've been talking about operas. Your debut in the UK with the Glyndebourne Festival, what would you say was the most exciting moment in your career? I've had some very exciting moments, but I think the most surprising and exciting moment was my first time going on at Glyndebourne, and it was my first year there, and I was not on hold that day. I was covering, and I didn't know that the person I was covering was not feeling well. So I had an audition the following day. So I just. I went for a walk. I walked from Lewis to Glyndebourne with my friend, who was also covering on the show, and we arrived there, and I was in my flip flops and very, very summery dress and no makeup. And I said, okay, I'm gonna go find out a room. I'm gonna go warm up. And she said, I'm gonna watch from backstage. I said, okay, have fun. And all of a sudden, about half an hour after we arrived, I got a knock at the door of my practice room, and it was the company manager saying, miriam, you're going on. And the show had begun. And I said, oh, okay, okay. And I said, well, what do you. What do you want me to do? What do you. I can't. She said, you're going to sing from the side. Because I was actually covering Danielle Denise. And she said, because Danielle is going to do the show from the stage, so you will sing from the side. And I said, okay, well, I will need a dress. What do you mean? Like, I will need to mime. What do you mean? Yeah. So she will. She will do all the actions, and I will sing because her voice. No way. She. She was not feeling well. Yes. So I said, okay, I will need a dress. I will need some shoes. I will need. I brought makeup, so that's good. I always have my makeup on me, and I need, like, 15 minutes. And so wardrobe couldn't find me a dress on time, so I borrowed her dress. The company manager, she had it in the office. And I put on my makeup and I went to the side and I sang Act 2. And then there is the long intermission. And after the long intermission, you know, they came and knocked on my door again and said, you're going on. You're going on, on. You're going to do the big Dance number da tempeste. And you're. Yeah. Are you okay? And I was like, yes. But now I need some alone time to, like, register what is happening to me right now in this. Mom. So that's maybe the most exciting and sort of challenging, surprising. Yeah, absolutely. So what would you say if you could then go back in time to a younger self or to a younger student? What would be your piece of advice? Like, be ready. Yeah. Like, always be ready. Good for you for bringing your makeup. But maybe don't. Maybe don't walk through a field for 45 minutes. The Davis show. No, I. Honestly, my advice is I wouldn't change a thing. I think for me, it would be patience, because every time something great has happened, you assume, okay, now this is it. Now my career is made. It's going to be amazing. It's a very slow climb, and there will be times of failures, and those are okay because you learn from them. So really, it's patience to my younger self. Patience. And just keep going. Keep going. Absolutely. Yeah. So what would you say are the pro and cons in your career, in the career of a soprano, an opera singer? I think, you know, as I grow older, I realize, you know, your voice changes. There are big milestones in your life where your repertoire changes, you change, change. So I think the big milestones, you know, they. You always realize them about three to four years after they've happened, because when you're in the change, you don't realize. You're just. You're like, I'm in this weird struggle right now. So I think it's very important to sort of think of those moments as something that will happen naturally and to be open to change and to be open to grow and to leave things behind. Okay, this isn't working anymore. I need to leave this role behind. And that's okay, because there are other roles. And to always be open and available to yourself and to other possibilities, because they are there. You just have to know where to look and how to find them. Wonderful. Now, from your album, you would like to listen to Aini Tak Tiru. That means my eyes. Whip, why did you choose this song? Aini Taktiru is, you know, is Mary speaking to Jesus when he's on the cross, and then she's speaking to God, and it's her eyes crying. And I chose this piece because this is one that I heard every year of my life growing up. We would do this big weekend of Easter. I'm Malkite Catholic, which is very. We celebrate very. It's Eastern. So everything is sung and so this always is very special to me, this one piece. Wonderful. Let's listen to it. Ra. Sa. And this was Aini Taktiru. My eyes weep sunk by the amazing Miriam Kali. We will be back after a short break. Welcome to women's radio station, the voice of women worldwide. I'm Sarah Louise Ryan and welcome to Love Lessons live on Women's Radio station. Hello and welcome to future Classic Women Awards with me, Stefania Passamonte on Women Women's Radio station. Hello and welcome to Judy Mae is listening. Hello, this is Anna Kennedy at Women's Radio Station live. Voice of women worldwide talking about all things autism women. The possibilities are endless. That's what makes us different. I'm Saskia at Sable Forex and we specialize in saving individuals and companies money on their international money transfers or foreign exchange. So in money's crossing currencies, whether it's euros to yen or rands to pounds, that's where we can add value. So for all your foreign exchange needs, I'm Saskia at Sable. You can contact me on saskia.johnston.com or my number is 0207-759-7541. Hi, I'm Sue Openshaw, owner of Ferme de Ciel, the luxury ski chalet in Samoa in the Grand Massif, France. We are open for skiing from mid December to end of April and we're only one hour from Geneva, so perfect for short breaks or longer holidays, single or multiple bookings. Contact us on fermdeciel.com or 077-331-0002 0. Do you need mediation? We are the a project charity. We provide convict resolution and community engagement services. Our services include community mediation for neighbour disputes, family mediation for separating couples, special education needs for parents, carers and their children and young adults, as well as workplace mediation and restorative services. To find out more, head to womensradiostation.com or theaproject.co.uk. women's radio station can give a voice to your brand with a wide range of sponsorship opportunities, including individual programs. We can tailor your experience to you. For more information on how you can sponsor a show, go to womensradiostation.com women. The possibilities are endless. That's what makes us different. Hi, I'm Zena Moscone, head of Business development at Women's Radio Station Radio Advertising is the most cost effective way of reaching a huge audience globally. Moreover, our sponsorship and advertising packages can be tailored to your needs, whether it be a product or brand service you're looking to promote. If you are interested in sponsoring or advertising, please contact me on 079-5637, 1483 or alternately zmomensradiostation.com. Welcome back to future Classic Women Awards on Women's Radio Station. Our guest today is the amazing Canadian singer Miriam Khalil. Miriam is now time for the odd questions. So may I ask if you have a strange hobby to free your mind or relax? Not really a hobby. I like to do like a Pilates half hour of Pilates and just kind of engage with. With my body and get very. Yeah, like do a little workout and then. And then the other one. It's not really a hobby, but I have to go through the whole score and imagine myself doing it. So I have to have like a good at least hour to two hours to myself in order to have, like, imagine myself going through the entire thing in my mind the day of the show, the day after show. That's before going on stage. But otherwise, when you have free time, you know, to forget about work, what do you do? Yeah, well, I. I used to do martial arts, so I still sort of practice a little bit. Yeah. When I was 17, I got my black belt and so I still do a little bit of practice. Should be very aware. Yes, yes. You should be very worried. Okay. And do you have any funny moment or embarrassing moment that you can recall going on stage or preparing? My one time, and it was like my very first time doing. I was doing musical theater. So it was my first time sort of like getting to know acting and being on stage. And I totally. In one show, in one run of the show, I had like, the most disastrous. I forgot to go on. And I could hear. We had mics and I could hear my partner starting to sing the part. Oh, no. And I could hear myself going, I'm late, I'm late, I'm late. Like through the. The kind of microphones and you can kind of hear it, like, coming down because they realized I wasn't on stage. And then in the same. Yeah, it was my very first experience. And then the very. And then that same show, I was playing a ghost and I walked into the set, so it wasn't a very ghost, like, appearance. So that's. I mean, those are the two. So I learned after that to always be very prepared. So I'm very curious. So you've done some musical theater then, not just opera. So you've done musicals? Yeah, very, very few. I've only done three. And it was When I was starting out, kind of segueing from pop to opera, I did La Cage Aux Falls, which I had just very. I was in the chorus. And then this particular experience that I just spoke about was in the Secret Garden and I was playing the Ayah, which was like the ghost of her caregiver, of Mary's caregiver. And then the last one was my very favorite was Maria in West side Story. And I would do that again in a heartbeat. We love Maria. So what is your next project or a collaboration? My next kind of big thing is I'm singing Mimi with the Canadian Opera Company this season and I'm very excited about that. That's amazing. Any plan to come to the UK soon? Not yet, but it's in the sort of. We're working on it. We'll leave it at that. So do you think you will be recording an opera sometime soon or if you had to think about the second album will be again, something more about concert leaders or something like, you know. Yeah, I think with. With this album because it's the premier album also of against the Grain album record and it's a company that I did Irae with and I'm a founding member as well. I think we would love to do a recording of our opera that we're working on. We just workshopped it. It's called Bound and it's. We're taking Handel's music and Canadian composer Kevin Lau is taking it and dissecting it. And it's about people that are detained for unfair reasons and it's stories from the actual news. So I think that would be one that I would love to put on record because it's both old and new and it's something that we're sort of very passionate about. Amazing. Now the last song that you chose for our little chat, it's Ya Ana Mzacha. Right, sorry, the translating. Oh, where shall I find you? What's this song about? This song is. I chose it because a very unique piece. It's me singing with myself. So it's pre recorded poetry by Yehuda Halevi, who is one of the most prolific and famous Hebrew poets. And I speak in Arabic and the words that I speak are words by Palestinian, very famous Palestinian poet also, and his name is Mahmoud Darweesh. And it's about displacement. It's about where and who will you become when you go to this new place. And in the Hebrew poem, it's asking God where I shall find him. So it's these two sort of voices that are married in this one piece and these two beautiful cultures and languages in one. So I chose it because I just feel like this is very relevant today and has been for years and years and years, the commonality and the conflict. But in this one piece, how common they are. Wonderful. And let's listen to it. Sa. Sam. Sakra firayatil ahli. Ra. And this was Ya Ana M Tacha, sang by the amazing Mira Khalil. If you have any questions that you would like to ask to our guest or nomination for our Future Classic Women awards, please email presentersomensradiostations.com or tweet us. Womensradiostn. A big thanks to our guest, Miriam Khalil. Miriam has been amazing. Thank you so much. It's been wonderful speaking with you. Thank you. You've been listening to Future Classy Women Awards on Women's Radio Station Live every day at 10am and 10pm London time. If you would like to listen to it again or catch up on our previous programs, please head to my presenter page. Stefania Passamonte Future Classic Women Awards on womensradiostation.com thank you for listening, Sam. Women's Radio Station is a fresh new broadcasting platform driven by love and passion. Connecting women around the world in a global network is all about diversity from opinions, career, ethnicity, education. We aim to show the individuality of every woman everywhere, providing opportunities and a platform for your voice. 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