CANADIANS NEXT ON STAGE
May 01 2025 - Jun 01 2025
2025 Benefit + Awareness Month Various
Opera Mariposa
May 02 - 24 2025
Eugene Onegin Tchaikovsky
Canadian Opera Company
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts
May 13 - 24 2025
Mahabharata Part One: Karma: The Life We Inherit John Gzowski and Suba Sankaran
National Arts Centre and Why Not Theatre
Babs Asper Theatre
May 14 - 24 2025
Mahabharata: Dharma – Part 2t John Gzowski and Suba Sankaran
National Arts Centre and Why Not Theatre
Babs Asper Theatre
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CANADIANS NEXT ON STAGE
2025 Benefit + Awareness Month Various
Opera Mariposa
Eugene Onegin Tchaikovsky
Canadian Opera Company
Mahabharata Part One: Karma: The Life We Inherit John Gzowski and Suba Sankaran
National Arts Centre and Why Not Theatre
Mahabharata: Dharma – Part 2t John Gzowski and Suba Sankaran
National Arts Centre and Why Not Theatre
Salome STRAUSS
Canadian Opera Company
Toronto, ON
Text from The COC website:
FEBRUARY 3, 5, 9, 11, 17, 19, AND 24, 2023
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts
Performance time is approximately one hour and 40 minutes, with no intermission
A dance—perhaps the most famous one in history—precedes a macabre kiss and an execution in this opera by Richard Strauss. An explosive, modernist score propels the action, redefining musical storytelling.
Directed by Academy Award-nominated Atom Egoyan, this production stars Ensemble Studio graduate Ambur Braid—acclaimed for her recent tour de force performance in the title role at Frankfurt Opera—as Salome, alongside Karita Mattila and Michael Schade.
CAST AND CREATIVE TEAMS
Conductor: Johannes Debus
Director: Atom Egoyan
Set Designer: Derek McLane
Costume Designer: Catherine Zuber
Original Lighting Designer: Michael Whitfield
Projections Designer: Phillip Barker
Choreographer: Serge Bennathan
Salome: Ambur Braid
Jochanaan: Michael Kupfer-Radecky
Herod: Michael Schade
Herodias: Karita Mattila
Narraboth: Frédéric Antoun
The Page: Carolyn Sproule
First Jew: Owen McCausland
Second Jew: Michael Colvin
Third Jew: Jacques Arsenault
Fourth Jew: Adam Luther
Fifth Jew: Giles Tomkins
First Nazarene: Robert Pomakov
Second Nazarene: Jorell Williams
First Soldier: Vartan Gabrielian
Second Soldier: Scott Conner
Cappadocian: Alex Halliday
Slave: Alex Hetherington
With the COC Orchestra and Chorus
A Canadian Opera Company production
Editor-in-Chief of Opera Canada from May 1, 2022 – May 15, 2024. Before moving to the editorial side, she was a publicist for opera singers, classical instrumentalists and arts organizations for over a decade. She says of her work: “It’s a lifestyle, not a job”.