Juliane Gallant

Music Director (Eugene Onegin)

New Brunswick native Juliane Gallant is a conductor in Tapestry Opera’s inaugural Women in Musical Leadership Fellowship, which allows her to work with orchestras and opera companies across Canada.

A graduate of the National Opera Studio and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, she has led productions in the UK for Hampstead Garden Opera (La bohème), King’s Head Theatre (Carmen, Tosca), Opera on Location (L’enfant prodigue, Cinderella, La Traviata, Don Giovanni, Carmen), St Paul’s Opera (Cosi fan tutte, Orphée aux enfers), Opera Upclose (Carmen, Music oft hath such a charm, Ulla’s Odyssey), Opera MIO (A Fantastic Bohemian: The Tales of Hoffmann revisited) and the Clapham Opera Festival (La Bohème). In 2021, she made her Royal Opera House conducting debut in Mami Wata as part of the Engender Festival, in collaboration with Pegasus Opera. She recently conducted a performance of Tapestry Opera’s production of RUR A Torrent of Light by Nicole Lizée.

In 2018, Juliane was one of only 12 conductors selected for the first Women Conductors Course: Conducting for Opera, run by the Royal Opera House, the National Opera Studio and the Royal Philharmonic Society. Through the Royal Opera House, she has received continuous training from Sian Edwards, Alice Farnham and Jessica Cottis. Current conducting mentors include Karen Kamensek, JoAnn Falletta and Rosemary Thomson.

Upcoming engagements include performances with the Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as a double bill of operas by Pauline Viardot and Louise Bertin with Gothic Opera in London, UK