Leila Kirves Awarded Vancouver Opera Guild Career Development Grant

Written By Aislinn Ritchie

Congratulations to soprano Leila Kirves who has been chosen as Vancouver Opera Guild’s 2025 Career Development Grant recipient!

This grant will enable Leila to undertake an audition tour in Germany, in addition to coachings and lessons, and record new promotional materials.

Currently making her Canadian professional debut in Edmonton Opera’s Die Walküre, Leila was also a 2021 District Winner of the Metropolitan National Council Auditions, winning Third Place at the Northwest Regional level in 2022, and attended the prestigious Gerdine Young Artist Program at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis in 2023.


Aislinn Ritchie
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