[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In our upcoming spring issue, due to be released the first week in May, Editorial Director Gianmarco Segato takes you to Vienna where he discovered the 'perfect storm' at the heart of that city's opera...
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Review: Opéra de Montréal’s Svadba “provokes maximum aesthetic pleasure”
Svadba continues until March 31st at Montréal's Espace Go In my early 20s, a boyfriend introduced me to the work of Dmitri Pokrovsky. Pokrovsky was a Soviet ethnomusicologist; much like Bartók had done in Romania, he spent years puttering around rural and remote areas...
Calgary Opera announces innovative 18-19 season under new GD Keith Cerny
This evening at 8 pm MST Calgary Opera unveiled their first new season under recently-appointed General Director & CEO Keith Cerny. Of all the recent 18/19 season announcements by Canadian opera companies, this was perhaps the most anticipated, with many curious...
Start-up Vera Causa Opera is all-inclusive
On April 6th, the new, emerging company, Vera Causa Opera, based in Waterloo, Ontario will premiere their third—and biggest—show of the season, The Italian Girl in Algiers. After much success with their previous productions, Don Pasquale and Little Red Riding Hood,...
Review: Life Imitates Art in Scintillating Die Fledermaus, Glenn Gould School, Toronto
For winter-weary Toronto opera lovers in need of a feel-good show, the Royal Conservatory of Music-Glenn Gould School’s Die Fledermaus is just what the doctor ordered. I, for one, never leave after a decent performance of this Viennese bon-bon without a smile on my...
Review: Mercury Opera’s La traviata takes over Chez Pierre Strip Club, Edmonton
Edmonton’s Mercury Opera has both a conventional and an audacious bent. The little company that stages traditional operas on no particularly predictable schedule has presented Madama Butterfly, Cavalleria rusticana, Il tabarro, La traviata— its inaugural 2000...
Review: Emerging artists shine in Wilfrid Laurier University’s The Tender Land
Aaron Copland’s 1954 opera The Tender Land was given a strong and stylistically-astute presentation in this spring’s production by Wilfrid Laurier University’s Faculty of Music Opera Program. This far-too-rarely performed work is a simple ‘coming-of-age story,’ set in...
Review: Fresh voices, whimsical staging, deft conducting brighten Opera York’s Le nozze di Figaro
Now in its 21st season, Opera York continues its tradition of bringing opera to the York Region, which is roughly the area immediately north of Toronto and Highway 7. Two operas are presented each season. I’ve heard many fine young voices in the dozen or so years I’ve...
Canadian artists front and centre in Metropolitan Opera’s 18/19 season
Canadians artists are firmly ensconced in the recently-announced Metropolitan Opera 18/19 season! Some of Canada’s leading stars will be returning to the Met stage, and others making their company debuts in operas such as La Bohème, Aida, Tosca and more! Met Debuts...
Opéra de Montréal announces their 18/19 season
Opéra de Montréal has announced their 18/19 season which includes a chamber opera at the Centaur Theatre, a concert with one of Canada's biggest opera stars at L’Opéra au Festival du Monde Arabe (Arab World Festival), along with four operas at Place des Arts. In...
Pacific Opera Victoria announces 18/19 season
Pacific Opera Victoria has announced their compelling 18/19 season, which includes the classic operas: Fidelio by Beethoven, Verdi’s La Traviata, and Emmerich Kálmán’s light-hearted operetta, Countess Maritza. All of the productions will be presented at Victoria’s...
Vancouver Opera announces 18/19 season & 3rd annual VO Festival
Vancouver Opera has just announced their 2018-2019 season and festival! The season will open with the comic operetta, The Merry Widow (Die Lustige Witwe) by Franz Lehár and conclude with a "Fairytales & Fables" themed Vancouver Opera Festival in 2019 featuring...