Despite the lost gigs, Canadian tenor Michael Schade is busier than ever. Michael Schade answers our Quarantine Questions from his home base in Vienna: What is something you've lost to the pandemic? "I suppose the best thing I can report is luckily not my health and...
Exciting news: Jenna Simeonov, our Social Media Manager and editor of Schmopera, has started a new podcast! It's called The Everything Will Be Okay Podcast, and it's a series of interviews with artists as they grapple with the ripple effect of the global pandemic. How...
Against the Grain Theatre has been on the ready for opera's shift from stage to screen, offering up their broadcast of La bohème twice since the live performing arts hit pause. Now, with the unveiling of AtG TV, the indie opera company is committing to ongoing...
For Opera Mariposa, Canada's only disability-led opera company, COVID-19 has made their annual Benefit + Awareness Show uniquely paramount. The Vancouver-based company is run by sisters Stephanie and Jacqueline Ko, both of whom have lived with ME (myalgic...
A chance purchase during one of her last contracts is bringing Adrianne Pieczonka some pandemic solace. The Canadian soprano answers our Quarantine Questions: What is something you've lost to the pandemic? "What I've lost to the pandemic (other than engagements,...
Oper Frankfurt has rolled out its line-up for 2020/21, and it comes with its usual steady presence of Canadian singers onstage. Of particular note are soprano Ambur Braid and bass-baritone Iain MacNeil, both members of the Oper Frankfurt Ensemble. Braid will sing...
Baritone Peter McGillivray knows well that he's in a great, big shared experience of insecurity with his fellow artists. He's balancing work with fun to pass the time, and he's answered our next set of Quarantine Questions: What is something you've lost to the...
Tapestry Opera is the first of Canada's opera companies to announce an all-digital upcoming season, making themselves "immune to cancellation" in the midst of the closures related to COVID-19. Tapestry Opera digital season 2020/21 includes a broadcast premiere of...
Mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta is feeling the loss as she social-distances from her home base in the UK: What is something you've lost to the pandemic? "Aside from about six months of lost performing work (so far...), my biggest loss to this pandemic has been the...
We know, it's a weird time to be thinking about opera—or magazine subscriptions, for that matter. But we're thinking about the future, and we hope you will, too. Opera Canada is in its 60th year of championing the artists and companies that make Canada's opera scene...
In a Canadian echo of the recent At-Home Gala out of The Metropolitan Opera, baroque oepra specialists Opera Atelier have announced Together/Apart, its virtual showcase of artists who have become audience favourites in the company's 35-year history. Scheduled for May...
Kitchen renovations and walks with loved ones are getting Canadian tenor David Pomeroy through the pandemic madness. Our Quarantine Questions go to the native of St. John's, NL. What is something you've lost to the pandemic? "Certainly not any weight! Ha! I was very...