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Winter 2022/23 Print Issue The New Patronage
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Artist of the Week 34 Qs for Rihab Chaieb
Rising star Tunisian-Canadian mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb is our Artist of the Week. Her 2022/23 season is a busy one, filled with anticipated returns and debuts. This week, she is in Geneva opening the world premiere of Christian Jost’s Journey of Hope/ Voyage vers l’espoir at Grand Théâtre de Genève singing La mère Meryem (running until April 4).
Tapestry Opera / Obsidian Theatre Of the Sea “a very considerable achievement”
Of the Sea; libretto by Kanika Ambrose, music by Ian Cusson, premiered at the Bluma Appel Theatre...
![Metropolitan Opera Falstaff “Everything about [Rustioni’s] deft, graceful, shipshape account of this infinitely rewarding score seemed unobtrusively right”](https://operacanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Fals_1435_C.jpg)
Metropolitan Opera Falstaff “Everything about [Rustioni’s] deft, graceful, shipshape account of this infinitely rewarding score seemed unobtrusively right”
Since its unveiling at London’s Royal Opera in 2012, Robert Carsen’s temporal transplant of...
OPERA PLACES Soprano Emily Dorn takes us to Montreal
This week, Canadian soprano Emily Dorn is in Montreal singing the role of Margarita Xirgu in Opéra de Montréal’s Ainadamar. Join us as she gives us a tour of beautiful and scenic Montreal, from vibrant street art to the most peaceful place in the city. Ainadamar runs until March 26.
Artist of the Week 17 Qs for Karina Gauvin
Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin is our Artist of the Week. This week, Gauvin sings The Human Requiem (Brahms’s Requiem) alongside Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins with the Colorado Symphony conducted by Canadian-American Peter Oundjian (performances run from March 24 to 26).
Artist of the Week 24 Qs for Elizabeth Polese
Our Artist of the Week is Toronto-born soprano Elizabeth Polese. This weekend, she makes her role debut with Opéra de Montréal singing Nuria in Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar running March 18 to 26. She sits down with us to reflect on life as an opera singer—the ups and downs, lessons learned, favourite places she’s worked, and more.
Metropolitan Opera Lohengrin “musically this was indeed a classy show”
I didn’t much care for his Parsifal, and I liked his Flying Dutchman even less, but at the first...
Winter 2022/23 Print Issue Stage Business: Charlotte Lee—Propelling Artist Careers
Charlotte Lee founded Primo Artists in 2015; the classical music artist management agency repress A-list artists like Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, and Wynton Marsalis.
Winter 2022/23 Print Issue New On The Scene: Brian Cho
Our Winter print issue’s ‘New on the Scene’ artist is collaborative pianist, Brian Cho, who is currently in the Canadian Opera Company’s Ensemble Studio Program.
CANADIANS NEXT ON STAGE
Apr 08 - 26 2025
Mahabharata Part One: Karma: The Life We Inherit John Gzowski and Suba Sankaran
Canadian Stage and Why Not Theatre
Bluma Appel Theatre
Apr 11 - 27 2025
Mahabharata Part Two: Dharma: The Life We Choose John Gzowski and Suba Sankaran
Canadian Stage and Why Not Theatre
Bluma Appel Theatre
Apr 25 2025
Robert Le Diable Meyerbeer
VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert
Jeanne Lamon Hall, Trinity-St. Paul's Centre
Apr 25 2025
Toronto Sings the Breithaupt Brothers’ Songbook Various
The Royal Conservatory of Music
Koerner Hall
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CANADIANS NEXT ON STAGE
Apr 08 - 26 2025
Mahabharata Part One: Karma: The Life We Inherit John Gzowski and Suba Sankaran
Canadian Stage and Why Not Theatre
Bluma Appel Theatre
Apr 11 - 27 2025
Mahabharata Part Two: Dharma: The Life We Choose John Gzowski and Suba Sankaran
Canadian Stage and Why Not Theatre
Bluma Appel Theatre
Apr 25 2025
Robert Le Diable Meyerbeer
VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert
Jeanne Lamon Hall, Trinity-St. Paul's Centre
Apr 25 2025
Toronto Sings the Breithaupt Brothers’ Songbook Various
The Royal Conservatory of Music
Koerner Hall
No event found!
