Soprano Miriam Khalil has appeared on numerous opera stages across Canada and Europe, including a stint at the renowned Glyndebourne Festival Opera in the United Kingdom. Her 2022/2023 season included concert engagements with the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas (Gorecki’s Third Symphony), the Edmonton Symphony (Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony), the Newfoundland Symphony (Handel’s Messiah), and a role and house debut with Vancouver Opera for Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers. Notable roles include Mimì in La Bohème (Canadian Opera Company, Minnesota Opera, Opera Hamilton, Against the Grain Theatre (AtG)); Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni (Opera Tampa, AtG, The Banff Centre, Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival); Marzelline in Fidelio (Pacific Opera Victoria), Susanna (Pacific Opera Victoria, Opera Lyra, AtG), and Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare (Glyndebourne Festival Opera, U.K.).

Miriam has been twice nominated for a JUNO Award for Classical Album of the Year – for her debut album Ayre: Live, a song cycle by Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov, and for her role as a soloist in Against the Grain’s acclaimed Messiah/Complex. She is a proud founding member and Associate Artistic Director of the Dora Mavor Moore Award-winning chamber opera company Against the Grain Theatre, and recently joined the Voice Faculty at the University of Alberta, where she is very excited to be working with the next generation of singing artists and creators.