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Joel Ivany–Summer issue teaser!
Opera Canada's Summer 2020 issue has been sent to press and will be available within the next 2 weeks. The issue is dedicated in large part to conversations with Canadian opera artists and company administrators, and how they are dealing with the coronavirus pandemic....
Everything Will Be Okay Podcast with Sondra Radvanovsky
Jenna Simeonov, contributor & social media manager for Opera Canada and editor of Schmopera, has released another episode of The Everything Will Be Okay Podcast, this time featuring superstar soprano Sondra Radvanovsky. The conversation came shortly after...
Optimism: Edmonton Opera 2021-revised plans
Edmonton Opera 2021 has been unveiled, with revised plans for the upcoming season, offering Canadian opera fans the chance to get tentatively hopeful about the future of live performances. For the first time in its 57-year history, the company has delayed the start of...
Quarantine Questions: Iain MacNeil
If anyone is getting productive during all this social distancing time, it's bass-baritone Iain MacNeil: Between mid-March and the present, how have you adjusted to this "new normal"? "I think I've been adjusting well to this new normal. I'm enjoying being forced to...
Anna-Sophie Neher–Summer issue teaser!
Opera Canada's Summer 2020 issue has been sent to press and will be available within the next 2 weeks. The issue is dedicated in large part to conversations with Canadian opera artists and company administrators, and how they are dealing with the coronavirus pandemic....
Quarantine Questions: Isaiah Bell
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...
Quarantine Questions: Catherine Daniel
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...
Marshall Pynkoski says Everything Will Be Okay
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,...
Quarantine Questions: Jordan de Souza
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...
Quarantine Questions: Neil Craighead
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...
Virtual Choir: COC takes the sing-along home
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...
Quarantine Questions: Simone McIntosh
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...
Barbara Hannigan: Canadian favourite on latest podcast
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,...
From the Vault: full-length, streamed COC productions
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...