On October 15, Southern Ontario Lyric Opera (SOLO) opened their 2023/24 season with Madama...
Dawn Martens
Southern Ontario Lyric Opera (SOLO)
Highlands Opera Studio
Regeneration “stunning example of what collaboration between artists of different ethnicities, ages, and styles can produce”
On August 17 and 19, at the Northern Lights Performing Arts Pavilion in Haliburton, Ontario,...
Brott Opera
La traviata Anne-Marie “MacIntosh is ready to unleash her Violetta on the world”
On July 13 and 14, Brott Opera presented La traviata in the 470 seat Peller Hall at Ancaster...
Brott Opera La Flambeau “a fascinating world”
I wondered what I was in for when I read the front of the opera program: “A Modern opera about...
Highlands Opera Studio Eugene Onegin “An exciting era of new talent”
Highlands Opera Studio’s return to a full season with masterclasses, concerts, community events,...
Highlands Opera Studio / Loose Tea Music Theatre A Powerful Partnership in Haliburton, ON
One of Highlands Opera Studio’s mandates is the creation, development, and presentation of new...
Best in Show: Canada’s Opera Pets featuring John Fanning, Maria Vetere & Alexandra Lennox
In our next instalment of Dawn Marten's series "Best in Show", we meet a baritone’s long lineup of...
Best in Show featuring Allyson McHardy, Lenard Whiting & Edward Franko, and Kathy Domoney
In the third instalment of Best in Show: Opera Pets, we meet a yodeling Chisenji, a pair of...
Remembering Boris Brott (1944-2022)
A six-year-old girl sits cross legged on the school gym floor, mesmerised by the man who is...
Best in Show: Canada’s Opera Pets featuring France Bellemare, Dominique Côté & Ambur Braid
In this next instalment of her encounters with opera people and their pets, Dawn Martens meets...