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_{Manitoba Underground Opera The Mansplaining Division} “Alissa Watson’s spot-on stage direction allows each character to shine”

by Holly Harris | Jun 9, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

Manitoba Underground Opera surfaced this spring with its ambitious new 2023 festival titled...

_{Metropolitan Opera Die Zauberflöte} “Musically, this Flute was top-flight”

by Patrick Dillon | Jun 8, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

How often does an opera audience seem united by one big, heady communal high? That was the feeling...

_{Opéra de Québec Madama Butterfly} “La révélation de la soirée fut assurément l’inspirante et dynamique Clelia Cafiero”

by Irène Brisson | Jun 7, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

Pour sa première production, en 1985, L’Opéra de Québec avait choisi Madama Butterfly. Repris en...

_{Canadian Opera Company Pomegranate} The World Premiere of Kye Marshall and Amanda Hale’s Opera

by Wayne Gooding | Jun 7, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

On paper, the Canadian Opera Company’s Pomegranate, the opera about lesbian love and loss was...

_{Artist of the Week} 18 Qs for Serouj Kradjian

by Communications | Jun 6, 2023 | Artist of the Week, Featured, News

Juno award-winning Canadian-Armenian composer and pianist Serouj Kradjian is in Toronto, preparing to present the world premiere of his opera and the latest commission from the Canadian Children’s Opera Company, The Nightingale of a Thousand Songs, created with Dora award-winning librettist Marjorie Chan. We sat down with him to chat sources of inspiration, lessons learned and what it means to be brave in music.

_{OPERA PLACES} Samuel Chan takes us to Kiel, Germany

by Communications | Jun 2, 2023 | Artist of the Week, Featured, News

Canadian baritone Samuel Chan gives us a tour of beautiful NordDeutschland, showing us his favourite spots in Kiel. Chan has been a member of the Oper Kiel ensemble since 2020, and is currently debuting the role of Lescaut in the company’s production of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, runs to July 2.

_{Artist of the Week} 15 Qs for Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野

by Communications | May 30, 2023 | Artist of the Week, Featured, News

Nikkei Canadian settler Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野 is in Toronto, preparing to sing the roles of Priestess and Jules in the Canadian Opera Company‘s production of Kye Marshall and Amanda Hale’s Pomegranate. We caught up with them to chat all things opera—sources of inspiration, early career beginnings, and more.

_{OPERA PLACES} Wallis Giunta takes us to Paris, France

by Communications | May 26, 2023 | Artist of the Week, Featured, News

Join us, as Irish-Canadian mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta brings us on a tour of beautiful, romantic Paris. She’s in Paris, preparing to reprise the role of Dodo in Opéra Comique’s production of Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s Breaking the Waves. The show opens May 28, and runs to May 31.

_{Artist of the Week} 34 Qs for Keri Alkema

by Communications | May 23, 2023 | Artist of the Week, Featured, News

American soprano Keri Alkema delighted Canadian audiences this month when she reprised the title role in the Canadian Opera Company‘s production of Puccini’s beloved Tosca. She sits down with us to reflect on her first singing lesson, her favourite opera house, opera roles she’d like to be singing in 10 years & more.