When Pacific Opera Victoria (POV) Artistic Director Timothy Vernon picked up a score of Flight at an Opera America conference, it immediately piqued his interest. After all, Vernon had met composer Jonathan Dove at the Banff Centre a few years previously, where the...
Mark McKelvie
Hansel and Gretel: COC’s new Toronto-based staging
Canadian Opera Company is gearing up for their staging of Hansel and Gretel, a classic German opera that will be given a modern-day Toronto twist. The COC’s production, the fourth in their 2019-2020 season, is set in a present-day Toronto apartment complex brought to...


