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_{Manitoba Opera Così fan tutte} capping its 50th Anniversary Season with Laughter and Wit

by Holly Harris | May 1, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

Manitoba Opera (MO) capped its 50th anniversary season with laughter and wit this spring; its...

_{The Metropolitan Opera Champion} “There wasn’t a weak performance onstage”

by Patrick Dillon | May 1, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

There’s a fistful of good reasons for seeing Champion. There’s the story, a real and strong one:...

_{The Metropolitan Opera La bohème} Nézet-Séguin “was greeted with the evening’s heartiest cheers”

by Patrick Dillon | Apr 26, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

In his not-quite-fourteen years at The Metropolitan Opera, that compact bundle of...

_{Vancouver Opera} Announces 2023-24 Season

by Communications | Apr 25, 2023 | Featured, News

Vancouver Opera has unveiled its 2023–2024 season, headlined by much-loved and reimagined classics, and casting that features some welcome returns and company debuts.

_{Artist of the Week} 20 Qs for Andrew Haji

by Communications | Apr 25, 2023 | Artist of the Week, Featured, News

Canadian tenor Andrew Haji is in Calgary performing the role of Macduff in Calgary Opera's new...

_{OPERA PLACES} Soprano Sarah Dufresne takes us to London

by Communications | Apr 21, 2023 | Artist of the Week, Featured, News

Canadian soprano Sarah Dufresne, who joined Royal Opera House's prestigious Jette Parker Artists...

_{Amici Chamber Ensemble From Strauss to the Orient} “Joyce El-Khoury’s soaring soprano was even more impressive than usual”

by Joseph So | Apr 20, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

The 2022-23 season of the Amici Chamber Ensemble drew to a glorious close with From Strauss to the...

_{Edmonton Opera Stabat Mater} “musically powerful”

by Bill Rankin | Apr 19, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

Edmonton Opera wrapped its 59th season with four intimate performances of an apt sacred work on...

_{Pacific Opera Victoria Così fan tutte} “this cast was a joy to listen to”

by Robin J. Miller | Apr 18, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

With Pacific Opera Victoria’s latest mounting of Mozart’s Così fan tutti (seen April 12), the...

_{Artist of the Week} 27 Qs for Jean-Philippe Lazure

by Communications | Apr 18, 2023 | Artist of the Week, Featured, News

Canadian tenor Jean-Philippe Lazure is in Winnipeg this week preparing to sing Ferrando in Manitoba Opera’s reimagined “Canuck-rendition” of Mozart’s Così fan tutte. We caught up with Lazure to reflect on the beginning of his operatic career, what it means to be brave with music & more.