Your summertime operatic adventure is on its way with the Summer 2021 issue of Opera Canada! Get special access to subscriber-only stories including an exclusive interview with acclaimed soprano Jane Archibald, a behind-the-scenes look at the making of one of Canada's...
Tapestry Opera is reintroducing live performances in a new way with an exciting announcement about their upcoming seasons through 22/23. Unveiling their upcoming projects for the next few years, Tapestry is promising five premiere productions in the works as a part of...
Mozart's La clemenza di Tito is currently undergoing a process of reappraisal by reinterpretation, the most radical in a flurry of recent productions being Peter Sellars' for the 2017 Salzburg Festival. That turned librettist Metastasio's "traitors" into "terrorists"...
Highly celebrated mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo has signed an exclusive agreement with Deutsche Grammophon. The news comes a week after D’Angelo’s Covent Garden debut in the role of Sesto in La clemenza di Tito, in a new production directed by Richard Jones and...
In the latest online offering out of Pacific Opera Victoria, Canadian mezzo Megan Latham steps into two old-world moments of beauty: 1920s New York, and Julia Child's kitchen. The digital double-bill pairs Lee Hoiby's delightful one-woman operas, The Italian Lesson,...
Lyric Opera of Chicago has announced their 21/22 season featuring 7 new opera productions, several of which feature some of Canada's greatest opera stars. Aiming to return to the theatre, live performances for their 67th season are set to start on September 17, 2021....
If you can't snag in-person tickets to the two indoor concerts, given at Bourgie Hall on May 29 and 30 by bass-baritone Philippe Sly, soprano Jana Miller, and pianist Jean Marchand, don't fret. The all-Robert Schumann programme is set to be webcast from June 5-19, for...
For a second year in a row, Tapestry Opera is bringing curbside concerts to Toronto in their summer Box Concerts program from June 15 to September 15, 2021. The brand new one-person show showcases opera, musical theatre and original songs to tell a story of...
San Francisco Opera (SFO), like so many musical organizations, has countered the pandemic closure by showering its audience with online recitals, concerts, lectures and celebrations. But SFO has done much more: large-scaled live performances. This spring on a...
In a nod toward the company's diverse and inclusive evolution, Early Music Vancouver has chosen Cree-Métis Two-Spirit baritone Jonathon Adams as its first ever artist-in-residence. Appointed by EMV Artistic & Executive Director Suzie Leblanc, Adams' summer...
Since March 2020, opera's relationship with film has grown leaps and bounds. Opera on screen may not be the average fan's preferred way to consume the artform, but without the opera-friendly work done by artists like photographer and videographer Taylor Long, the...
People just can’t keep their hands off Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov. The parade of revisers starts with the composer himself who left us two distinct versions, the 1869 original and an 1872 revision. A vocal score with further changes was published in 1874. Next in line...