In each issue of Opera Canada our 'New Production' feature highlights a significant new staging or newly composed work. For our spring 2018 issue, due in your mailbox and on newsstands the first week in May, we highlight the new opera by James Rolfe (music) and Morris...
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This evening at 8 pm MST Calgary Opera unveiled their first new season under recently-appointed General Director & CEO Keith Cerny. Of all the recent 18/19 season announcements by Canadian opera companies, this was perhaps the most anticipated, with many curious...
On April 6th, the new, emerging company, Vera Causa Opera, based in Waterloo, Ontario will premiere their third—and biggest—show of the season, The Italian Girl in Algiers. After much success with their previous productions, Don Pasquale and Little Red Riding Hood,...
Canadians artists are firmly ensconced in the recently-announced Metropolitan Opera 18/19 season! Some of Canada’s leading stars will be returning to the Met stage, and others making their company debuts in operas such as La Bohème, Aida, Tosca and more! Met Debuts...
Opéra de Montréal has announced their 18/19 season which includes a chamber opera at the Centaur Theatre, a concert with one of Canada's biggest opera stars at L’Opéra au Festival du Monde Arabe (Arab World Festival), along with four operas at Place des Arts. In...
Pacific Opera Victoria has announced their compelling 18/19 season, which includes the classic operas: Fidelio by Beethoven, Verdi’s La Traviata, and Emmerich Kálmán’s light-hearted operetta, Countess Maritza. All of the productions will be presented at Victoria’s...
Vancouver Opera has just announced their 2018-2019 season and festival! The season will open with the comic operetta, The Merry Widow (Die Lustige Witwe) by Franz Lehár and conclude with a "Fairytales & Fables" themed Vancouver Opera Festival in 2019 featuring...
The Canadian Opera Company has announced today that General Director Alexander Neef is to become the new Artistic Director of Santa Fe Opera. Neef will continue as COC General Director along with his new seasonal role in Santa Fe. SFO is also welcoming Robert K. Meya...
Tapestry Opera’s Tap:Ex series will take the stage with their latest piece, Forbidden, from Feb. 8th until Feb. 11th at the Ernest Balmer Studio in Toronto’s Distillery District. Iranian-born composer, Afarin Mansouri has created a blend of Persian, opera, rap, and...
Toronto-based company The Electric Bond Opera Ensemble present two one-act operas, Another Sunrise and Farewell, Auschwitz, both by American composer Jake Heggie, on Feb. 10th and 11th. The program centres around Krystyna Zywulska, the Polish dissident, writer and...
This morning, the International Opera Awards revealed their 2018 finalists, five of them renowned Canadian artists. Opera Canada correspondent, Victoria Stappels, is also a jury member. The Awards will be presented at the London Coliseum by BBC Radio 3 on April 9th...