Tavares studied music at the University of British Columbia where she studied voice with an emphasis on opera. Next stop after the NAC will be Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She just winged it and was hired.Īt her debut in Vancouver on July 22, her extended family came out as well her music teachers. She’s been on tour now for three months and has performed in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary Winnipeg, Boston and Montreal for far. She was cast in Sousatzka by auditioning for Garth Drabinsky in his office where there was no piano. Tavares seems comfortable auditioning before big names. When I walked out I had a moment of ‘What just happened. It was pretty much go in sing the song, do a scene and thank you very much. “They have been casting the show for so long that they make decisions very quickly. I went and shook his hand and said hello. I was told he was there before I went in.
It was very quick, in the second round of call backs. The legendary producer Cameron Mackintosh was not there, however “every audition I did was taped and sent to him. Her auditions in New York were in front of Phantom composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and the director Hal Prince. I was then told I had to keep it a secret for two months. It took about a month and a half of auditions before I had booked it. “One of people on the team had worked on Phantom and put in a good word for me,” she said in an interview.Įventually, “I was asked to come to New York for two more call-backs. Tavares got the chance to audition for Phantom’s North American tour while she was working as a swing performer in the Garth Drabinsky musical Sousatzka. And its many songs are sung in showers around the world.
The musical has also played London’s West End for three decades. Phantom of the Opera is one of the most successful musicals of all time. It is a role that Sarah Brightman made famous 30 years ago. True to her word, Tavares is indeed “doing that.” She is performing the role of Christine Daaé, the young ingenue who captures the hard heart of the Phantom in the North American touring production of the musical. Tavares was entranced and after the show was over she told her mom, “OK, I want to do that.” When she was 10 years old, Eva Tavares’ mother took her to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in downtown Vancover to see a production of The Phantom of the Opera.
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