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_{re:Naissance Opera, Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre, Turning Point Ensemble, Arraymusic + Loose Tea Music Theatre} Present Canadian Premiere of Angel’s Bone

by Communications | Nov 23, 2022 | Featured, News

Canada’s innovative music and opera organizations — re:Naissance Opera, Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre, Turning Point Ensemble, Arraymusic, and Loose Tea Music Theatre — have announced the premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Angel’s Bone. The premiere will take place in Vancouver from November 25–27, 2022 at The Annex Theatre as part of IndieFest.

_{Artist of the Week} 20 Qs for Allyson McHardy

by Communications | Nov 22, 2022 | Artist of the Week, Featured, News

Canadian mezzo-soprano Allyson McHardy is a well-recognized voice on many of the world’s leading stages. Be sure to see her performance in Opéra de Montreal’s La beauté du monde, a production that chronicles the epic rescue of artwork from the Louvre during World War II. The show runs until November 27!

_{Calgary Opera Carmen} A very fine production dedicated to the late Bramwell Tovey

by Kenneth DeLong | Nov 21, 2022 | Featured, Reviews

To open its 50th anniversary season, Calgary Opera is presenting Bizet’s Carmen. The idea to do...

_{Manitoba Opera La Cenerentola} “Haute couture frocks…brilliant set…well lit…crisply led…worth the wait”

by Holly Harris | Nov 18, 2022 | Featured, Reviews

Manitoba Opera trumpeted goodness as it opened its auspicious 50th anniversary season with...

_{Orchestre classique de Montréal} presents the world premiere of Unruly Sun

by Communications | Nov 18, 2022 | Featured, News

Orchestre classique de Montréal (OCM) has announced the world premiere of a new theatrical song cycle this December, inspired by the work of filmmaker and queer activist Derek Jarman. The piece, Unruly Sun, will play for one night only in Montreal on Thursday, December 1, 2022 in commemoration of World AIDS Day.

_{Grammy Awards} Canadian Maestro Yannick Nézét-Séguin Garners FIVE Nominations

by Elizabeth Bowman | Nov 16, 2022 | Featured, News

On November 15, 2022, the 2023 GRAMMY nominations were announced. Most notably, Canadian maestro...

_{Teatro Nuovo Maometto Secondo} “Vancouver native Simone McIntosh, lithe and lovely, whose crystalline high mezzo fully commanded Anna’s wide range”

by Patrick Dillon | Nov 15, 2022 | Featured, Reviews

Patience can be amply rewarded: Teatro Nuovo’s Maometto Secondo, thrice deferred, at last hit the...

_{Artist of the Week} 25 Qs for Josh Lovell

by Communications | Nov 14, 2022 | Artist of the Week, Featured, News

Continuing our recent coverage of Teatro alla Scala’s The Tempest, our Artist of the Week happens to be another notable Canadian debuting in Robert Lepage’s imagerich production, tenor Josh Lovell. He has made a number of exciting house debuts this year, first this summer at Glyndebourne Festival as Ernesto in Don Pasquale and earlier this month, at Teatro all Scala as Ferdinand in The Tempest.

_{Artist of the Week} 24 Qs for Frédéric Antoun

by Communications | Nov 9, 2022 | Artist of the Week, Featured, News

The 2022/23 season will be a busy one for Quebec-born tenor Frédéric Antoun, marking a number of...

_{Artist of the Week} 17 Qs for Lizzy Hoyt

by Angie Bell | Nov 1, 2022 | Artist of the Week, Featured, News

Audiences can look forward to Lizzy Hoyt’s upcoming performance in Manitoba Opera’s La Cenerentola, a mid-century modern-inspired adaption of Rossini’s classic running from November 12-18.