Opéra de Québec announced details of their upcoming 19/20 season on Saturday night at the premiere of their current production of Verdi’s Nabucco. The season begins on Oct. 19th with Verdi’s classic, La traviata. The cast features a mixture of Canadian veterans and...
This morning, the 19/20 Calgary Opera season details were released, the first under the new senior leadership team of Artistic Director, Bramwell Tovey, and Managing Director and CEO, Heather Kitchen. Here's our season rundown: The 19/20 Calgary season opens in...
Manitoba Opera recently released details of their upcoming 19/20 season—their 47th— featuring an American classic and an iconic French opera. The season kicks off in November with the Manitoba premiere of Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah. Loosely based on the Apocryphal tale...
The lives of infamous arts patrons Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas are making their way to the opera stage and they’re bringing the City of Lights with them. L’Atelier lyrique de l'Opéra de Montréal presents Twenty-Seven, from March 23-31, as a part of the L’Opéra...
The time has come for the L’Opéra de Montréal 19/20 season to be announced! Tchaikovsky opens the season on September 14 with his most famous opera, Eugene Onegin. The ultimate opera of lost love and bitter regret will feature real life couple Étienne Dupuis and...
It’s the time of year for season announcements and the Pacific Opera Victoria 19/20 details have been released! The season opens with Puccini’s last completed stage work, Il trittico. Rarely staged anywhere, but especially in Canada, this trio of one-act operas...
We are only in the second month, but already, one of the most significant Canadian classical music events of the New Year is history. On Feb. 20th, in a glittery gala concert at Toronto’s Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, the musical-operatic community...
It’s Valentine’s Day and what better thing to do than watch poor, consumptive Violetta Valéry take a risky leap into love with young Alfredo Germont, only to be forced to leave him by his hidebound father, then tenderly reconcile with her beloved mere minutes before...
The 19/20 Vancouver Opera season has recently been announced, and here's what you can look forward to! Kicking off their season in October is Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata. This will be the fourth stop for a production inspired by the decadent music hall scene of 1920s...
An operatic twist on a classic tale is making its way to the stage and it comes with a bite. The fickle fanged creature that is Dracula is set for its world premiere on Feb. 15th in Cambridge, ON before heading to Waterloo and Guelph. Composer and Artistic Director of...
Through a series of events beginning Feb. 11, 2019, Toronto will be celebrating the life, art and work of Jessye Norman. The legendary American opera star is the winner of the twelfth Glenn Gould Prize. The prize is awarded to an individual who has made a unique and...
Big news for Edmonton Opera—on Feb. 2nd they announced their 2019/20 season at opening night of their recent, new production of Hansel and Gretel. To kick off their 2019/20 season, Rigoletto comes to the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium on October 19, 22 and 25,...