Sri Lankan-born, Toronto-based tenor Asitha Tennekoon is the latest guest on The Everything Will Be Okay Podcast, closing its first season of conversations with artists navigating the mid-pandemic opera scene. Tennekoon talks about the precious work he's done since...
Opera Canada continues our Behind the Scenes series, an exclusive look 'behind the curtain' with the talented people working at opera companies across the country... Set designer Olivier Landreville had just finished working on Opéra de Montréal’s 2019 production of...
As Canada’s artists ready themselves for far-reaching cancellations in the 2020-21 opera season, Opera Canada is checking in. What is the ripple effect of an opera-free season? How many Canadians will call themselves professional artists in a year’s time? How bad has...
Vancouver Opera has postponed original plans for its 60th anniversary season to 21/22 but plans to present an alternative 20/21 season online. “We are exploring digital subscription packages and single ticket options for these productions,”says Tom Wright, VO’s...
We’ve all seen the pictures: Salzburg Festival defied the odds and put on two staged operatic productions this summer. The festival had a COVID-testing clinic in situ, tight protocols for testing, masking, foot traffic, as well as who could work closely with whom....
In a Sept. 16th press release, Canadian Opera Company announced a reimagined fall 2020 season of physically-distanced programming called Opera Everywhere. According to the COC release, this slate of digital and physical events will include live concerts, interactive...
As Canada’s artists ready themselves for far-reaching cancellations in the 2020-21 opera season, Opera Canada is checking in. What is the ripple effect of an opera-free season? How many Canadians will call themselves professional artists in a year’s time? How bad has...
Orchestre Métropolitain opens their 20/21 season with Mahler's Das Lied Von Der Erde presented by a star-studded, all-Canadian team Canadian opera singers Frédéric Antoun and Michèle Losier have both spent much of the year planning, practising, and, like many artists,...
Winnipeg arts lover Douglas MacEwan, 95, will be walking one kilometer every day for 96 days to raise $96,000 for local performing arts until his 96th birthday. The proceeds will be divided evenly between Winnipeg’s four major companies: Manitoba Opera, the Royal...
Edmonton Opera will celebrate 2020’s Alberta Culture Days by presenting events that are free and accessible to all ages, as usual, but this year with special considerations for audience health and safety. EO is presenting two drive-in concerts outside the Northern...
As Canada’s artists ready themselves for far-reaching cancellations in the 2020-21 opera season, Opera Canada is checking in. What is the ripple effect of an opera-free season? How many Canadians will call themselves professional artists in a year’s time? How bad has...
Opéra de Québec recently announced that Jean-François Lapointe has entered into his role as Artistic Director, beginning with the 2020-21 season. His tenure will overlap with current director Grégoire Legendre who plans to retire in December 2020. Legendre is...