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, Irish-Canadian mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta shares a moment in her career when she faced...
Pacific Opera Victoria (POV) has announced its return, with a 2022 season that offers a mix of live and digital performances. Staged and filmed productions of Carmen and Don Giovanni will open the season, complemented later by two more screened productions, The Garden...
Calgary Opera has renamed its artist development program to honour the late W.R. Bob McPhee, past General Director and CEO of Calgary Opera, and 2015 Rubies Honouree. The program will now officially be named the McPhee Artist Development Program. During McPhee's...
Against the Grain Theatre (AtG) has collaborated with the Canadian Opera Company (COC) to present a timely film that reinterprets Mozart's enduring classic. Requiem reflects a musical passage out of the darkest days of the global pandemic towards hope and a brighter...
Lyric Opera of Chicago presented its first-ever Spanish-language mainstage opera on Nov. 13th with Florencia en el Amazonas by the late Mexican composer Daniel Catán and libretto by Marcela Fuentes-Berain. Inspired by the magical realism that suffuses Gabriel García...
After a three-month long international search, Edmonton Opera has named Joel Ivany as its new Artistic Director. In the weeks leading up to the company's reopening with La Bohème in February 2022, Ivany will be collaborating with the board and staff. Ivany also...
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...