Bathroom Divas
Canadian reality television series
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Bathroom Divas: So You Want to Be an Opera Star? is a Canadian television singing competition, which aired on Bravo! Canada for two seasons in 2006 and 2007.[1] Produced by Kaleidoscope Entertainment and directed by Mike Ward, the series was a competition for amateur opera singers, whose winner got to perform live with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in a show at Roy Thomson Hall.[2]
The principal judges were Mary Lou Fallis and Tom Diamond, who were joined by Gary Relyea and Michael McMahon in the first season,[3] and Liz Upchurch and Daniel Lichti in the second.[4] Various notable figures in Canadian opera performance and production, including Measha Brueggergosman, Richard Margison, and Stuart Hamilton, also appeared on the program as guest judges.[2]
The first season was won by Elton Lammie,[5] and the second season was won by Elaine Jean Brown.[6] Other competitors were Emili Loisier, Sonja Anderson, Sonja Gustafson, Gail Malcolm and Sergio Restagno in the first season,[2] and Phillip Holmes, Laura Landauer, Robyn Hefferton, Donna Jacobs and Paul Abelha in the second.[7]
