Mcgill News

It’s been quite the year for talented young soprano Élisabeth St-Gelais, BMus’21.

In March, she won the Schulich School of Music’s annual competition for the $25,000 Wirth Vocal Prize. Then, she won the grand prize in the 19-to-30-year-old category of the Canadian Music Competition. This summer, she took on the role of Rosalinde in a Berlin Opera Company production of Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus. And just recently, the Schulich School master’s student was one of five McGillians named to the CBC Music 30 Under 30 list of emerging classical musicians.

“It was a delicious surprise,” she says of the most recent honour.