Following the success of its live concert La compilation – The Mixtape, Opéra de Montréal has made the show available as a free webcast for a limited time. From Dec 16 to Jan 2, 2022, audiences can relive the unique concert experience, which features two great...
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, bass-baritone Philippe Sly shares what the opera genre has taught him about life. First...
Bonne nouvelle du Festival d'opéra de Québec, l’Opéra de Montréal et Les Violons du Roy: les trois compagnies ont annoncé un création et la présentation prochaine d’un opéra québécois en première mondiale, Yourcenar – Une île de passions. Le production comporte deux...
So much press hoopla has been lavished on the Met’s two new operas, Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones and Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice—Fire alone inspired four feature articles in The New York Times, not to mention an opinion column and an actual review—that...
It’s Chapter 5 of Lauren Margison‘s series, The Cardinal Diaries: A Case of The "Post Show" Blues! If you missed the first four instalments, you can read them here: chapter one, chapter two, chapter three, and chapter four. Below, our titular soprano grapples with a...
The Queen Elizabeth Theatre was packed on December 4 for Vancouver Opera’s first live staging since COVID-19 hit in early 2020. It was the first of only two performances of the company premiere of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s 1762 Orfeo ed Euridice. An interesting...
Leoš Janáček is Canadian director Robert Carsen’s favourite composer. He admires him especially for his intensely dramatic operatic style. Where other composers become more expansive when they set words to music, Janáček uniquely becomes more concise. It was fitting,...
Readers familiar with the pages of Opera Canada will know how many Canadian artists make their careers within Europe's system of state-subsidized opera companies. But even at these well-funded organizations, there is considerable financial concern over the continued...
Loose Tea Music Theatre (LTMT) has announced the building of a new team, with three positions that are brand new for the organization: the appointment of Tim Crouch as the new General Manager, Rochelle Smith as Director of Marketing, and Francesco Corsaro as Director...
Toronto Operetta Theatre (TOT)'s General Director Guillermo Silva-Marin has announced the company's return with a live 2021/22 season that offers a mix of operetta classics and Canadian — and World — Premieres. A Waltz Dream will open the season, followed by Orpheus...
Britain has an established tradition of “country house opera,” with almost a dozen companies offering summer festivals in or around more-or-less stately homes in rural settings. Glyndebourne is the model and the pre-eminent link in the network, but others, including...
The curtains are finally lifting. Holiday festivities - and productions - are live, once again. In contrast to last year's predominantly digital celebrations, relaxed pandemic restrictions have allowed Canadian presenters to open their doors and bring live music to...