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_{Summer 2022 Print Issue} Letter from New York

by Patrick Dillon | Aug 18, 2022 | Featured, News, Summer 2022

New York City’s rich opera and theatre scene is back in full swing after the long pandemic silence; Patrick Dillon explores its awakening.

_{Chants Libres} Names Marine Theunissen as its New Executive Director

by Communications | Aug 10, 2022 | Featured, News

Montreal-based vocal creation company Chants Libres has announced Marine Theunissen as the company’s new Executive Director.

_{Ottawa Chamberfest} Mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb’s shows off her “versatile artistry”

by Natasha Gauthier | Aug 9, 2022 | Featured, News

Canadian mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb showed off a different side of her artistry at Ottawa Chamberfest, delighting audiences with more subtle, sensitive vocal qualities of shading and luminosity.

_{Edmonton Opera} Announces Inaugural Rumbold Vocal Prize To Canadian Emerging Professional Opera Singers

by Communications | Aug 2, 2022 | Featured, News

Edmonton Opera is pleased to announce the inaugural Rumbold Vocal Prize (October 24–30, 2022) to...

Second Act: Suzie LeBlanc

by Sylvia L'Écuyer | Aug 1, 2022 | Featured, Interviews, News, Summer 2022

Pivoting from a 35-year international singing career, soprano and early music specialist Suzie LeBlanc took up the post of Artistic and Executive Director of Early Music Vancouver (EMV) in January 2021.

Viewpoint: Honesty Resonates

by Frédérique Vézina | Aug 1, 2022 | Featured, News, Summer 2022

Frédérique Vézina, voice teacher and soprano, talks about unleashing your ‘It’ factor.

Yourcenar—une île de passions

by Sylvia L'Écuyer | Jul 28, 2022 | Featured, News

Belgian-born Marguerite Yourcenar is a novelist who left her mark on the French literary world of the 20th century. In the summer of 2022, Yourcenar’s passionate life will be brought to the stage in a new opera co-produced by L’Opéra de Québec, L’Opéra de Montréal and Les Violons du Roy. The creative team includes composer Éric Champagne and director Angela Konrad.

_{New On The Scene} Matthew Cairns

by Olivier Bergeron | Jul 26, 2022 | Featured, Interviews, News

27-year-old Canadian tenor Matthew Cairns is quickly making a name for himself as one of the most...

Editor’s Notebook: Summer Magazine Issue

by Elizabeth Bowman | Jul 25, 2022 | Featured, News

The business of opera has always fascinated me: the behind-the-scenes discussions and decision making about everything from casting to marketing to ticketing to development initiatives, the occasional drama (endless energy), the costumes, the colours and the royal diadem: the music and voices.

_{Early Music Vancouver} Announces 2022-23 Concert Season

by Angie Bell | Jul 22, 2022 | Featured, News

We spot some stellar Canadian talent in Early Music Vancouver’s 53rd season! 15 concerts, acclaimed voices and reimagined classics are set for 2022/23.