Opera Duo

Geoffrey and Tamar are both seasoned professional opera singers and are ready to perform at a variety of events including weddings, funerals, and birthday parties. They are open to your song suggestions or any ideas you may have for their performance at your event.

Heralded for her “clear vibrant tone” (Opera Canada), Tamar Simon is an Armenian- Canadian soprano based in Montréal, Québec. She has been featured in many leading roles including Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Musetta (La bohème), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) which she performed in Highlands Opera Studio’s 2021 production. Tamar has sung as a soloist with Vancouver Opera, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Okanagan Symphony Orchestra, White Rock Concerts, and Burnaby Lyric Opera. Tamar has also been seen on international stages, including appearances as Zerlina (Don Giovanni) in Kona, Hawaii and as Calisto (La Calisto) in Sulmona, Italy. This year she sang the role of Clorinda (La Cenerentola) with the Lunenburg Academy of Music and she will reprise the same role later this summer with the Brott Opera Music Festival.
Tamar is a District Winner and an Encouragement Award Winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and she is a graduate of University of British Columbia’s Master of Music program. Tamar continued her vocal and art song studies in Austria after receiving the Johann Strauss Foundation Scholarship, which sponsored study at the Internationale Sommerakademie Mozarteum.

Praised for his "clarion tone" (Ludwig van Toronto) and "impressive vocal colour" (Opera Canada), Canadian-American baritone Geoffrey Schellenberg has recently been featured in a number of North American opera productions, including those with Opéra de Montréal, Vancouver Opera, Portland Opera, and Pacific Opera Victoria. He has been recognized for his performances of Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni), and Germont (La traviata). He was recently seen as Marquis in La traviata (Opéra de Montréal), Escamillo in Carmen (Orchestre symphonique de Trois- Rivières), and Eisenstein in La Chauve-Souris (Instituit Canadien d’art vocal).
Geoffrey has sung as a soloist with a number of orchestras, most recently performing Des Knaben Wunderhorn with both l’Orchestre de l’Agora in Montréal and the Mississippi Valley Orchestra in Saint Paul. He has appeared with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in the roles of Captain in Candide and of Danilo in selections from The Merry Widow. He has also sung as a soloist in several oratorios, including A Sea Symphony and Faure’s Requiem with the Vancouver Bach Choir, Duruflé’s Requiem with the Saint Philips Choir, and Handel’s Messiah with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra.
Geoffrey has completed a number of artist residencies including l’Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal, the Portland Opera Resident Artist Program, and the Calgary Opera Emerging Artist Program. He has also earned a number of accolades in vocal competitions, including the of the Concours OSM (Stingray Rising Stars Award), the MONC Auditions (District and Audience Choice Winner), and the Canadian Opera Company Centre Stage Competition (Third Prize).