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.
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Edmonton Opera Rumbold Vocal Prize Winners Announced
On Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022, Edmonton Opera (EO) held the finale for its first Rumbold Vocal Prize competition at the Jubilee Auditorium. The core principles of the annual Rumbold Vocal Prize are to provide financial assistance, experience and exposure to emerging...
I Musici de Montreal Continues Season with “Paris” ft. Valérie Milot & Tania Miller
I Musici de Montreal chamber orchestra continues its season this November, welcoming sought-after Quebec harpist Valérie Milot and renowned Canadian conductor Tania Miller with a Parisien-inspired program that fuses impressionism with romanticism.
Edmonton Opera Tosca Slack, Pomeroy, and Barrett “were uniformly strong, both musically and dramatically”
Edmonton Opera opened its three-show season on October 22 with a compelling production of Puccini’s Tosca. It will be the only traditional take on a canonic work in Artistic Director Joel Ivany’s first crack at designing an Edmonton Opera season. Productions of Cosi...
Artist of the Week 27 Qs for Karen Slack
Our Artist of the Week is internationally acclaimed Philadelphia-born soprano Karen Slack, who opened Edmonton Opera's Tosca this week singing the title role. A well recognized voice on many of the world's leading stages, Slack's performance has already earned praise...
Metropolitan Opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Maestro Keri-Lynn Wilson “masterfully captured not just the score’s cornucopia of arresting sonorities but its vibrant pulse”
Some operas have grown on me over the years; some productions have, too. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is one of those operas, and Graham Vick’s Metropolitan Opera staging of it is one of those productions. I’d always respected Shostakovich’s trenchant troublemaker of 1934,...
Opera Atelier Dido and Aeneas “well sung and satisfying”
Opera Atelier’s production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas which opened last night at the Elgin Theatre is essentially a remount of their 2016 production though shorn of the prologue created for that version. This cuts the piece to the normal 65 minutes or so and allows...
Canadian Opera Company Finalists Announced for Canada’s Biggest Emerging Opera Voice Competition
Following live auditions across the country, seven of Canada’s most promising new opera singers have been selected to compete in the Canadian Opera Company’s Centre Stage: Ensemble Studio Competition on November 3, 2022 at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts.
Vocalypse ProductionsEscape to Freedom A World Premiere In Halifax
This 90-minute performance of song was an intense interpretation of a real woman’s story. Mona Parsons, the only Canadian woman to be imprisoned by the German army in World War II, was a Nova Scotian who married a Dutch businessman and moved with him to Holland. The...
Association for Opera in Canada Awarded $434,000 for Training Programs from Canadian Heritage
Association for Opera in Canada (AOC) has been awarded $434,000 in training funds from the Ministry of Canadian Heritage of the Government of Canada, through the Canada Performing Arts Workers Resilience Fund (CPAWRF). This funding will create two streams of...
Canadian Opera Company Carmen A “fine ensemble cast”
In his 1888 polemic, The Case Against Wagner: A Musician’s Problem, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche cites Bizet’s Carmen as the perfect opera: “With it” he writes, “one bids farewell to the damp north and to all the fog of the Wagnerian ideal.” Beyond its...
Artist of the Week 19 Qs for Johan Reuter
Danish baritone Johan Reuter is recognized as one of the foremost bass-baritones performing today. His voice has taken him to many of the world's most prestigious opera houses, including The Metropolitan Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Teatro...