On Tuesday’s In Focus, Grant Deme speaks with renowned opera singer Joshua Hopkins, whose album Songs For Murdered Sisters makes its on-stage debut in February.
Hopkins is a Juno winning and Grammy nominated opera singer, and the brother to Nathalie Warmerdam, one of three women murdered in Renfrew County by their ex-partner in 2015. The tragedy sparked calls to end intimate partner violence, and the 86 recommendations which came from the ensuing inquest that Lake 88 highlights weekly.
Hopkins has partnered up with Jake Heggie and Margaret Atwood for Songs for Murdered Sisters, and discusses that working relationship, and turning the emotions he felt following his sister’s murder into art.
To learn more and to buy tickets to the upcoming performances in Toronto, Ottawa, and Kingston, visit https://songsformurderedsisters.com/
The interview has been edited for brevity.
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