Vancouver Opera returns to live performances for its 2021-22 season, with two days of outdoor performances at the šxʷƛ̓exən Xwtl’a7shn (formerly QET Plaza), followed by three operas at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre starting in December. The upcoming season offers a...
Readers, if you're like the folks on our Opera Canada team, you have a running list of questions that you'd love to ask your favourite Canadian operatic artists. So, we're asking. In our series of interviews, called Shop Talk, we're checking in with Canada's singers,...
CBC Music has announced an exciting new line-up of hosts, programming and podcasts coming to the airwaves this fall. Marion Newman, critically acclaimed Kwagiulth and Stó:lō First Nations mezzo-soprano, has been named the new host of Canada's premiere opera...
Opéra de Montréal (OdeM) has joined forces with the Ballet Opéra Pantomime (BOP) company and I Musici de Montréal (I Musici) chamber orchestra to launch Riders to the Sea/Le Flambeau de la nuit, a collaborative live double-bill production this September, which...
In a new series we’re running over here at Opera Canada, Artist’s Picks, we’re asking our favourite Canadian opera artists: what else are you into? In our call for artist-driven recommendations, Grammy-award winning Canadian baritone Gerald Finley offers up his...
Readers, if you're like the folks on our Opera Canada team, you have a running list of questions that you'd love to ask your favourite Canadian operatic artists. So, we're asking. In our series of interviews, called Shop Talk, we're checking in with Canada's singers,...
There’s irony in the fact that one of the last public sightings of Manitoba Underground Opera (MUO) in the pre-pandemic, “Before Times” proved to be its concert recital, Lost Voices, included with its August 2019 summer festival titled Reflections of Ourselves. Those...
The Metropolitan Opera (The Met) has reached an agreement with its orchestra, the last of its three largest unions to reach an agreement. The move paves a clearer path for the reopening of The Met's 2021-22 season, with the scheduled premiere of Terence...
It's Chapter 3 of Lauren Margison's new series, The Cardinal Diaries: Wardrobe Mayhem Ensues! If you missed the first two installments, you can read chapter one here and chapter two here. Below, the fictional adventures of our titular soprano continue as she prepares...
In a new series we’re running over here at Opera Canada, Artist’s Picks, we’re asking our favourite Canadian opera artists what they're into, watching and listening to. In our call for artist-driven recommendations, Canadian-American soprano Othalie Graham offers up...
What do you get when you combine a beer tent, a former gravel pit, and hell? If it’s Highlands Opera Studio’s production of The Leporello Diaries: an Unsolved Mystery you are referring to, then the answer is musical magic. Never one to be stopped by challenging...
Martha Collins, celebrated Canadian stage director and operatic performer, has been named the new Director of Education at Sarasota Opera. In her new role, she will oversee development of Sarasota Opera's Youth Opera and Adult Education Programs, alongside community...