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Tapestry Opera Announces their Winter 2021 Season
Following a 2020 season of digital and live shows that reached over 5,000 pairs of eyes and...
Perryn Leech: Exclusive Interview with COC’s new General Director
“Collaboration” might be the most important word in Perryn Leech’s vocabulary. The new General...
Opera Canada: Our team’s 2020 roundup
As 2020 draws to a close, the Opera Canada team offers their personal reflections on the most...
Review: Vienna State Opera premieres Henze’s Das verratene Meer
The most prolific operatic composer of the postwar period, Hans Werner Henze's contribution to the...
Opinion: How can diverse identities experience Messiah?
An old professor of mine startled me recently, asking, “What’s it like singing Messiah as a Jewish...
Review: Vancouver Opera Amahl and the Night Visitors offers the “actually there” experience
Gian Carlo Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors was the first opera written specifically for...
Review: Messiah/Complex joyfully proves beauty of a vast ‘Canadian’ experience
I feel I must preface this review with the confession that I have never--not ever--seen a...
Review: Opera Atelier Something Rich & Strange puts new clothes on Baroque works
Despite repeated coronavirus lockdowns, social distancing rules and a climate of apprehension,...
Lived Experience: Transgender opera singers still fear coming out and losing work
The November 2020 opening of Orchestre Classique de Montréal’s production of Laura Kaminsky, Mark...