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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...
Quarantine Questions: Lawrence Wiliford
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...
Opera Singers with Kids: Finding the Balance
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...
Opera Makers: COC’s new video series for the young
The Canadian Opera Company has just launched Opera Makers, an 8-week video series designed for young people aged 7-12. The series kicked off on May 20 with "Tongue Twisters", featuring soprano Karine White highlighting the fun side of a singer's diction exercises; as...
Quarantine Questions: Teiya Kasahara
In our latest round of Quarantine Questions, Canadian soprano Teiya Kasahara is dealing with the loss of safety and security, but they're picking up new skills and finding trust in relationships: What is something you've lost to the pandemic? "The opportunity to sing...
Calgary Opera 20/21: a comfy, Canadian season
Calgary Opera 20/21 has been revealed: the details of the company's upcoming 2020-21 season, and it's a showcase of the country's on, and offstage talent. The three-show season begins in November with Beethoven's Fidelio, in a production directed by Michael Cavanagh...