In our newest, exclusive Q&A series #BehindtheCurtain, we're going 'backstage' to ask Canadian opera artists to share their journey and what inspires them. In this installment, Canadian baritone Iain MacNeil shares his idea of a perfect day off, and reflects on...
Flipside Opera, Art Song Collective and GroundSwell have partnered to create Bloody Jack, a project they describe as "part art film, part documentary and part musical." Premiering Nov 19, the film explores the crime-ridden life of John “Bloody Jack” Krafchenko,...
Toronto City Opera (TCO) has announced its return to live performances, beginning its 2021-22 season with two in-concert showings Verdi's Nabucco on November 13 and 19. Although the opera is commonly performed worldwide, it is infrequently performed in Toronto due to...
The Opera Canada Awards—‘The Rubies’ makes a return to ‘live’ on November 15, 2021. Click here for more details to secure your ticket to this wonderful celebration of Canadian opera talent. Note our venue change to the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145...
Ana Sokolović’s Svadba was premiered by (now defunct) Queen of Puddings Music Theatre in Toronto in 2011. It then toured various European and US cities and has been revived subsequently in cities as far apart as Montreal and Perm, Russia. It might just be the most...
Attending a live in-concert opera for the first time in almost two years was thrilling. The first post-pandemic production of opera in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, was made even more memorable by the fact that it was performed at the Lunenburg Opera House, built in 1908...
Both the music and text of Richard Strauss's Salome, which uses Oscar Wilde's play of the same name translated from French to German by radical poet Hedwig Lachmann, can still shock: the music with its grotesque, intricate, clashing harmonies, and the text with its...
The Opera Canada Awards—‘The Rubies’ makes a return to ‘live’ on November 15, 2021. Click here for more details to secure your ticket to this wonderful celebration of Canadian opera talent. Long before anyone talked about finding a work/life balance, Canadian baritone...
It has been the longest silence in COC history. To opera-starved audience members like yours truly, it felt interminable. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the last time the COC put opera on their mainstage was with Barber of Seville and Hansel & Gretel, way back in...
Après avoir résisté vaillamment à la pandémie avec deux galas en mode virtuel, une mise en espace du Barbier de Séville et un Festival ingénieux malgré ses ressources limitées, l’Opéra de Québec reprend enfin pleinement possession du Grand Théâtre, avec costumes,...
While the Canadian Opera Company prepares for its return to live productions with Puccini’s Madama Butterfly in February, another Puccini opera is set to launch on the company’s virtual centre stage. The Italian master’s take on ‘Family Feud’, Gianni Schicchi, will be...
The Opera Canada Awards—‘The Rubies’ makes a return to ‘live’ on November 15, 2021. Click here for more details to secure your ticket to this wonderful celebration of Canadian opera talent. 2021 Rubies honouree, Canadian/American soprano Erin Wall (1975-2020) enjoyed...