A key event in Canada's summer music scene, the Toronto Summer Music Festival is going into its second virtual line-up. The Festival's series of concerts runs from July 15 to August 1, and boast a healthy range of concerts, all available for free streaming. The...
Edmonton Opera announced yesterday that General Director Tim Yakimec will depart from the company, effective June 30, 2021. Tim Yakimec took over EO in 2013; under his tenure, the company has positioned itself in good financial shape, and offered Albertan audiences...
Munich's Bayerische Staatsoper and Madrid's Teatro Real have unveiled their 2021/22 seasons, each with a small-but-mighty dose of Canadian artists onstage. Canadian-American powerhouse soprano Sondra Radvanovsky will head to Munich for two of her signature Verdi...
Canada's digital operatic output is ever-expanding, and we're here to help you keep track. We've got a short list of recent and brand-new items - including one upcoming must-see - for your Canadian opera watchlist: Phaedra & Serenade, Pacific Opera Victoria Among...
Opéra national de Paris has unveiled a 2021/22 season intriguing in its variety, and peppered with Canada's top talent. Solid Canadian representation on the Parisian stage will, hopefully continue and expand with Alexander Neef at the helm; his move to Paris came in...
Manitoba Opera is capping off its 2020/21 season with a five-part series of video concerts, The Solo Sessions, featuring the work of five Manitoba-based artists, recorded live at Winnipeg's Centennial Concert Hall. The concert series features Manitoban operatic talent...
On Sunday, June 20, 2021, Opera Lafayette presents 12 hours of free performances with its Fête de la Musique. The line-up, running from 8amET to 8pmET, features a mix of vocal and instrumental concerts, family-centric education programs, world premieres, and...
Now that Teatro alla Scala has announced its 2021/22 season, Canada's opera fans can get excited about the Canadian presence in their mainstage lineup. Canadian dynamic duo Robert Carsen and Michael Levine present their Don Giovanni from March 27-April 12, 2022,...
In the latest online offering out of Pacific Opera Victoria, Canadian mezzo Megan Latham steps into two old-world moments of beauty: 1920s New York, and Julia Child's kitchen. The digital double-bill pairs Lee Hoiby's delightful one-woman operas, The Italian Lesson,...
If you can't snag in-person tickets to the two indoor concerts, given at Bourgie Hall on May 29 and 30 by bass-baritone Philippe Sly, soprano Jana Miller, and pianist Jean Marchand, don't fret. The all-Robert Schumann programme is set to be webcast from June 5-19, for...
In a nod toward the company's diverse and inclusive evolution, Early Music Vancouver has chosen Cree-Métis Two-Spirit baritone Jonathon Adams as its first ever artist-in-residence. Appointed by EMV Artistic & Executive Director Suzie Leblanc, Adams' summer...
Since March 2020, opera's relationship with film has grown leaps and bounds. Opera on screen may not be the average fan's preferred way to consume the artform, but without the opera-friendly work done by artists like photographer and videographer Taylor Long, the...