Three stars honoured with Opera Canada "Rubies" at magazine's gala event

Grégoire Legendre, Sondra Radvanovsky and Atom Egoyan

Each year, Opera Canada magazine holds a fundraising event at which the "Rubies" are awarded, named after the late Ruby Mercer, the founder of the magazine, an author and soprano. This year, the award recipients were soprano Sondra Radvanovsky, film/stage director Atom Egoyan, and L’Opéra de Québec General Director Grégoire Legendre.

The Opera Canada gala at which the awards were made, hosted by CBC broadcaster and tenor Ben Heppner, took place at the headquarters of BMO Financial Group, on the 68th Floor of First Canadian Place in downtown Toronto. (Details of the citations for the awards are available in a post on the website Musical Toronto.)