The Little Opera Company (LOC) took a bold leap of faith as it closed its 2023/24 season with the Canadian premiere of Jonathan Dove’s The Walk from the Garden, a darkly ominous, allegorical church opera inspired by the Biblical tale of Adam and Eve’s expulsion from...
Manitoba Opera marked a significant milestone in Canadian opera history as it launched its 51st season with the first full-scale Indigenous-led opera presented on a national mainstage, Li Keur: Riel's Heart of the North. The 135-minute (including intermission) opera...
Manitoba Underground Opera closed its 2023 Odyssey festival with notably the Manitoba premiere of Verdi’s The Corsair (Il Corsaro), performed on the deck of the historic 17th century Nonsuch (replica) ship now permanently "docked" at the Manitoba Museum. The 15-year...
Manitoba Underground Opera took audiences from heaven to hell this summer, with Rameau’s Castor et Pollux, its second production of its Odyssey 2023 festival. This year’s line-up wraps up with Verdi’s The Corsair being staged on deck of the historic Nonsuch ship...
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The Little Opera Company closed its 2022/23 season with a bite-sized version of Mozart’s great singspiel, Die Zauberflöte, featuring Canadian composer John Greer’s compact, 90-minute adaptation titled The Magic Flute: The Trials of Tamino and Pamina performed in English.
Manitoba Underground Opera surfaced this spring with its ambitious new 2023 festival titled "Odyssey", setting sail with Laura Gow’s The Mansplaining Division as the first of three mainstage shows presented May 24-26. This year also marks a radical departure for the...
Manitoba Opera (MO) capped its 50th anniversary season with laughter and wit this spring; its latest production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte cheekily billed as a “Canuck Cosi” more Canadian than a bottle of maple syrup or hockey Saturday night. Three performances held...
Manitoba Opera trumpeted goodness as it opened its auspicious 50th anniversary season with Rossini’s La Cenerentola, an ideal choice for pandemic-weary audiences stage directed by Winnipeg’s Robert Herriot, and notably its first full-scale production since its...
Manitoba Underground Opera took a deep dive into the bonds of matrimony this summer with its 2022 Summer Festival titled For Better or Worse, presented repertory style between August 18-27, completing a two-year, nonetheless pandemic-interrupted series that initially...
The world premiere of Winnipeg, Manitoba-born, now UK-based composer/pianist Douglas Finch’s Take Care put a spotlight on the hidden world of dementia care, as witnessed through the prismatic lens of real-life caregivers. The 90-minute chamber opera presented April...
There’s irony in the fact that one of the last public sightings of Manitoba Underground Opera (MUO) in the pre-pandemic, “Before Times” proved to be its concert recital, Lost Voices, included with its August 2019 summer festival titled Reflections of Ourselves. Those...
In this Q&A series, we’ve asked performing arts writers across the country to weigh in on how the Canadian opera industry is handling the prolonged pandemic environment. Next up…Holly Harris. What are your feelings on the types of programming being offered, mostly...