Victoria-based tenor Isaiah Bell is finding himself more inspired than ever during his social distancing time. New projects, new Instagram accounts, and hopeful predictions from the future - all in his responses to our Quarantine Questions. Between mid-March and the...
Playing the waiting game and staying optimistic: mezzo-soprano Catherine Daniel answers our Quarantine Questions. Between mid-March and the present, how have you adjusted to this "new normal"? "Adjusted is the word! Over the past two months I have seen my opera gigs...
The latest episode of The Everything Will Be Okay Podcast is released, this time featuring Opera Atelier co-Artistic Director Marshall Pynkoski. Pynkoski spoke with host Jenna Simeonov in the weeks shortly following the cancellation of Atelier's spring production,...
Canadian maestro Jordan de Souza is social distancing with family, from his home base in Berlin. He's mourning the temporary loss of communal music-making, but living his dream as a stay-at-home parent. Between mid-March and the present, how have you adjusted to this...
Neil Craighead is impressive in his keeping-busy projects. Parenting, cooking, building canoes - the bass-baritone is living well in the moment, as he answers our Quarantine Questions: Between mid-March and the present, how have you adjusted to this "new normal"? "I'm...
Sending our Quarantine Questions to Nova Scotia native Jane Archibald was a comforting exercise; the soprano is finding moments of peace and restoration amid the widespread closures. Between mid-March and the present, how have you adjusted to this "new normal"? "I've...
As the pandemic continues to disrupt arts organizations worldwide, Canadian Opera Company has answered the challenge by launching its new Virtual Choir project this month. In the tradition of the COC’s annual Sing Along Opera Chorus concerts, opera fans and singing...
Mezzo-soprano Simone McIntosh spent some scary weeks in San Francisco at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, but she managed a flight home and now continues her work as a San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow, remotely. She answers our Quarantine Questions: Between...
A brand new episode of The Everything Will Be Okay Podcast has dropped, and this week's guest is the tireless new music champion, Barbara Hannigan. Host and Opera Canada Social Media Manager Jenna Simeonov spoke with Hannigan in the earlier weeks of the pandemic,...
After a good amount of anticipation, the Canadian Opera Company has announced their new series of full-length productions, From the Vault. Each Thursday the COC releases an item from its archives, beginning with Tim Albery's 2017 staging of Arabella. "Nothing can...
Tenor Lawrence Wiliford takes on our Quarantine Questions, and responds with some sober truths about the opera and classical music industries, pre- and mid-pandemic. Between mid-March and the present, how have you adjusted to this 'new normal'? "The beginning of...
The feature, "Finding the Balance: Opera Singers with Kids" originally appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of Opera Canada, Vol. 60 #1 About 25 years ago, Richard Margison was homesick in Berlin. It was a familiar feeling in those years, when the Canadian tenor’s robust...