The pulling of Peter Eötvös’s opera The Golden Dragon from the Hackney Empire must provoke some tough thinking The Hackney Empire in London announced last week that it had cancelled a performance of an opera that had come under fire from members of Britain’s east...
Tapestry Opera's 2017-2018 season has taken an unexpected, yet welcome, turn. The company has just received a donated Bösendorfer piano, but aside from the new addition to their company, Tapestry is also preparing for a busy season. The 2017-18 season started on a...
Thank heaven for seniority. As a 28-year-old teacher of choral music in Winnipeg, Gregory Dahl did not have any. Which meant he was among the first to be laid off when the high school at which he worked decided to downsize. “I had this epiphany,” the baritone said...
"Opera singers come in all shapes, sizes and ages," says soprano Simone Osborne. "We wear jeans, drink coffee, take our dogs for walks, have normal families and lives (outside the theatre), just like everyone else. You have probably shared a subway or streetcar ride...
Against the Grain Theatre is making the case that Claude Vivier's 'Kopernikus' is a masterwork. Against the Grain Theatre is an innovative and nontraditional opera company. The company sings in pubs, invades mansions and does radical things with music, staging and...
Cincinnati Opera’s U.S. premiere production of Another Brick in the Wall has begun presales of single tickets. These tickets are only available through October 31, and are limited to three dates in the five performance run. The opera opens July 20th at Springer...
Opera Canada's 18th annual awards gala The Rubies is quickly approaching. On October 30, three honourees will be recognised for their contributions to Canadian opera, and among the recipients is accomplished director and librettist Michael Patrick Albano. As Associate...
Keith Warner's frenetic, conceptually driven production of Richard Strauss's Elektra (1909) reinforced a musically brilliant performance of this brutal, uncompromising opera centered on a mythic daughter's longing for revenge of the murder of her father, Agamemnon, by...
The world premiere of Missing, a new opera based on the tragedy of over 1,200 missing and murdered First Nations, Inuit and Métis women and girls in Canada, is fast approaching. The opera, produced by City Opera Vancouver and Pacific Opera Victoria will open November...
For the past 12 years, the annual ‘Meet the Young Artists’ recital that kicks off the Canadian Opera Company’s Free Concert Series has signalled the start of the opera season in Toronto. On September 26, the latest crop of uber-talented Canadian opera singers and...
Victoria & Albert Museum, London Costumes by Dalí, singing by Callas – and a life-size baroque stage: this plunge into 400 years of opera is an exhilarating, mind-expanding experience This vast and exhilarating exhibition explores and celebrates opera’s often...
Did you ever wonder what happens when three tenors share the concert stage? Operettts—the three ‘t’s standing for each tenor—offered a gleefully amusing answer in the form of a rivalry between three divos all on one stage, performing operetta’s greatest hits. This...