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These days, Brueggergosman wears it closely cropped and dyed blonde. After reuniting with her ex in , getting pregnant shortly afterwards and losing twins, then having two boys born in and , Brueggergosman is now reluctantly getting divorced. In the memoir, she is open about what subsequently led her husband to leave: she had her first of many affairs less than a year after getting married at the age of While they are still too young right now, Brueggergosman says she knows her children will eventually read her book and learn about her past—and she is alright with that.

She has performed in Carnegie Hall and before the British royal family, but speaking to readers about her book is different, and opened her up to new transparencies. Read more in Arts. These songs have since been released as a CD. Her upcoming Elettra in Idomeneo is her first opera in Toronto in eight years, last as Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito. With her in town for rehearsals, I took the opportunity to reconnect with her.

We met in a restaurant near the rehearsal studio at the Elgin Theatre:. A belated congratulations on the publication of your book! And it renders other people freer to be human too. But in the thick of it, in the book tour, when you are forced to go back and relive all those things…. Oh my goodness… Just got a letter from the alumni association asking if I want to come to the reunion, which I realize was 20 years ago when I graduated. Now that you are revisiting Elettra eleven years later — your last was April — how does it feel?

It helps me understand what a real loss would be. They are both kind of terrifying, but for different reasons. You know, the dissecting aorta, the loss of the twins, the birth of two children, my divorce, all of this is in the book. But I feel I am winning. I remember when you had the surgery. Monica Whicher filled in for you. God bless her! The other time was Four Last Songs.

I know this too will pass, as the only constant is change. Not too many people would have enough to write a memoir at age forty…. That, and apathy are worse than dying young.

In the hospital, I knew I had lived as much as anyone could possibly live. It makes me more courageous and loving. Tell me — what is it like having a career and raising children, as a single mom? Here they are! The point is to teach them what they have in each other. They are with me most of the time. At age 20 Measha Brueggergosman created a signature lead role in the premiere of the opera Beatrice Chancy by James Rolfe. Produced in Toronto in , and in Nova Scotia in , the opera portrayed the tale of a slave girl in 19th-century rural Nova Scotia who murdered her abusive father and master.

Her career rapidly gained momentum, and her charisma, dramatic ability, mature musicianship and powerful voice have placed her in demand both in concert and on the operatic stage. Brueggergosman's repertoire also expanded quickly; it includes Beethoven's Symphony No. In addition, she has continued to develop her concert repertoire, often combining songs by Schumann, Ravel, Duparc, and Gershwin with her own arrangements of black spirituals.

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