Pacific Opera Victoria’s second leap into the world of film is very different from its psychedelic, special-effects-laden first, Elizabeth Raum’s The Garden of Alice. Jake Heggie’s For a Look or a Touch, seen April 23 on a big screen at the Royal Theatre, is firmly...
Opera Atelier has announced the company's 2022/23 season, with a return to a live subscription series titled Passion Returns. The powerful lineup includes Purcell's iconic Dido and Aeneas, followed by the Canadian premiere of the company's own fully-staged, live...
“Few love to hear the sins they love to act.” Truer words have never been spoken. But then again, Shakespeare’s Pericles never heard Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s The Seven Deadly Sins. Though this ballet chanté lags behind the popularity of the duo’s two previous...
The Canadian Opera Company enjoyed a successful return to the mainstage of the Four Seasons Centre Apr. 23 with a splendidly sung, effectively staged performance of Verdi’s La traviata. The revival is in the hands of the production’s original director, American Arin...
NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMay 2, 2022 TORONTO — Opera Canada Publications is pleased to announce the hiring of Elizabeth Bowman as the next Editor of Opera Canada magazine—effective May 1, 2022. Ms. Bowman, a Canadian, has over 15 years of experience in...
Toronto-based independent queer opera collective OperaQ is on June 3 premiering Medusa's Children, a new musical film that delivers a modern retelling of the Greek myth. Scored by composer Colin McMahon and featuring text by award-winning Canadian poet Charlie...
In the third instalment of Best in Show: Opera Pets, we meet a yodeling Chisenji, a pair of rambunctious Siberian Huskies and a gentle Tabby who can still defend her turf. If you missed the first or second chapters of "Best in Show: Canada's Opera Pets", you can read...
Calgary Opera’s second production in its 2022 COVID-comeback season drew a large, largely unmasked crowd to the Jubilee Auditorium for its opening Apr. 2. This La traviata was a reprise of a concept staged in Edmonton in the fall of 2018, including the same adaptable...
Canadian mezzo Krisztina Szabó shares her thoughts on singing Judith, teaching and maintaining a healthy work-life balance. In a profession known for its impermanence, where even the most gifted artists can shine brightly for a while and then disappear without a...
Samuel Barber’s Vanessa is a Gothic romance set in winter in some unspecified part of northern Europe. Three generations of aristocratic women act on their differing ideas of love and honour as they encounter the unscrupulous Anatole, son of Vanessa’s former flame of...
I’d thought I was arriving early for a three o’clock Sunday matinee—but no, in frustrating fact I was fifteen minutes late for a two o’clock curtain. Mea culpa, and my distinct loss: the 150 minutes that remained of Washington National Opera’s Così fan tutte (20...
A six-year-old girl sits cross legged on the school gym floor, mesmerised by the man who is leading the orchestra. He chats enthusiastically about the music, and she can’t help but notice his smiling blue eyes and his curly hair. Fifty years later, that girl is now a...