Canada’s innovative music and opera organizations — re:Naissance Opera, Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre, Turning Point Ensemble, Arraymusic, and Loose Tea Music Theatre — have announced the premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Angel’s Bone. The premiere will take place in Vancouver from November 25–27, 2022 at The Annex Theatre as part of IndieFest.
Canadian mezzo-soprano Allyson McHardy is a well-recognized voice on many of the world’s leading stages. Be sure to see her performance in Opéra de Montreal’s La beauté du monde, a production that chronicles the epic rescue of artwork from the Louvre during World War II. The show runs until November 27!
Orchestre classique de Montréal (OCM) has announced the world premiere of a new theatrical song cycle this December, inspired by the work of filmmaker and queer activist Derek Jarman. The piece, Unruly Sun, will play for one night only in Montreal on Thursday, December 1, 2022 in commemoration of World AIDS Day.
Continuing our recent coverage of Teatro alla Scala’s The Tempest, our Artist of the Week happens to be another notable Canadian debuting in Robert Lepage’s imagerich production, tenor Josh Lovell. He has made a number of exciting house debuts this year, first this summer at Glyndebourne Festival as Ernesto in Don Pasquale and earlier this month, at Teatro all Scala as Ferdinand in The Tempest.
The 2022/23 season will be a busy one for Quebec-born tenor Frédéric Antoun, marking a number of notable debuts: first, a role debut in February as Narraboth in Canadian Opera Company's Salome, followed by another debut as Don José in Opéra Comique's new production of...
On Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022, Edmonton Opera (EO) held the finale for its first Rumbold Vocal Prize competition at the Jubilee Auditorium. The core principles of the annual Rumbold Vocal Prize are to provide financial assistance, experience and exposure to emerging...
I Musici de Montreal chamber orchestra continues its season this November, welcoming sought-after Quebec harpist Valérie Milot and renowned Canadian conductor Tania Miller with a Parisien-inspired program that fuses impressionism with romanticism.
Following live auditions across the country, seven of Canada’s most promising new opera singers have been selected to compete in the Canadian Opera Company’s Centre Stage: Ensemble Studio Competition on November 3, 2022 at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts.
Association for Opera in Canada (AOC) has been awarded $434,000 in training funds from the Ministry of Canadian Heritage of the Government of Canada, through the Canada Performing Arts Workers Resilience Fund (CPAWRF). This funding will create two streams of...
The Canadian Art Song Project (CASP) is pleased to announce the second Chung Wai Chow and John Wright Art Song Mentorship Program for Composers to support emerging and early-career composers, as well as mid-career composers new to solo vocal writing, in the creation...
Twelve singers from Commonwealth countries around the world are on their way to Birmingham in England next month to compete in The Voice of Black Opera competition. Semifinals are on 24 and 25 November, when five singers will be chosen to advance to the Final at...
The Canadian Opera Company has announced that Canadian compsoer Cecilia Livingston will be the company’s new Composer-in-Residence.