From his position as Co-Artistic Director of the Canadian Art Song Project, tenor Lawrence Wiliford has spent considerable time in close quarters with composers as they write for the voice. In the latest instalment of our advice series, "Dear composer...Dear singer",...
Running May 2 to July 31, Highlands Opera Studio has launched an online summer concert series featuring past and current company artists, each available to stream for one week. The series of 13 concerts, titled "Reflections and Expressions", has kicked off with a...
Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes was first performed in London at Sadler’s Wells in June 1945, just months after Victory Day in Europe marked the end of WWII. While it took only two-and-a-half years to appear at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, it would be another 75...
Opera Canada magazine invites applications and referrals for a Circulation & Marketing Manager, a permanent part-time position. Opera Canada is the oldest, continuously published arts periodical in Canada and is available quarterly. Opera Canada magazine has been...
This weekend, catch up with Canadian composer Andrew Ager (Frankenstein, Führerbunker)! In an interview led by the National Capital Opera Society, Andrew Ager is joined by Bronx Opera General Director Ben Spierman, and Canadian singers Carmen Harris and Bradley...
This spring, in lieu of its usual run of a fully staged opera given four performances with different casts, UofT Opera offered “Opera in Miniature: A Festival of One Act Operas.” There were five performances over four days with one show repeated with a second cast. Of...
Our advice series continues! In this latest instalment of "Dear singer..." we hear from UK-based composer James Garner, whose opera, Much Ado, is set to premiere out of Opera McGill in 2023. Garner urges composer to sing, singers to look outside of the box, and for...
It's extraordinary, the fast-growing body of work that has come out of the pandemic-inspired opera drought in the last 13 months. It's no substitute for live stages, but there's still enough digital creativity out there that it's easy to lose track. In case our...
Opera companies’ ‘forced’ embrace of digital content during the pandemic has, I think, caused many opera lovers to reevaluate their own relationship to ‘recorded’ opera, be it audio or visual. For most of us I’d venture, our initial exposure to opera was probably via...
If you couldn’t tell by his operatic adaptations of films like Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves, and Carlos Reygadas’ Silent Light, Canadian librettist Royce Vavrek is a movie buff. So, since we’ve all got more time on our hands than usual, I figured it would be an...
While opera-deprived Canadians stay patient (because we're nice, and frankly, because we have no choice), it's a good time to peek over the border for a few fresh digital items. Out of our neighbours to the south, here's a shortlist of new and brand-new American opera...
Anxiously awaiting the warm weather that signals his return to the golf course, Canadian tenor Paul Frey also looks into his seeing-stone for signs of another a milestone event. April 20th, 2021 marks Frey's 80th birthday. During his heyday from the mid-1980s to 2005,...