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September 2019
Toronto Wagner Society | An Evening with Robert Wilson
The Society is delighted to announce that renowned director Robert Wilson will be interviewed on September 17th, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. The meeting will take place at the Arts and Letters Club, 14 Elm St. Members are encouraged to bring their friends. The meeting is open to everyone, and non-members are welcome, without cost. For more information about Mr. Wilson, please check out his biography which can be found here. The meeting should be very enjoyable, and everyone is encouraged to attend. PLEASE PLAN ON ATTENDING…
Find out more »Toronto Operetta Theatre | Viva La Zarzuela
The fire and passion of the bolero, seguidilla and flamenco conjure an exotic vision of Spain and Latin America… dazzling entertainment in a whole new dimension!
Find out more »Canadian Opera Company | Turandot
TURANDOT Giacomo Puccini SEPTEMBER 28 TO OCTOBER 27, 2019 Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Performance time is approximately two hours and 25 minutes, including one intermission. CAST AND CREATIVE TEAMS Conductor Carlo Rizzi Director, Design, and Lighting Concept Robert Wilson Co-Director Nicola Panzer Assistant Directors Fani Sarantari & Marilyn Gronsdal Co-Set Designer Stephanie Engeln Costume Designer Jacques Reynaud Assistant Costume Designer Davide Boni Co-Lighting Designers John Torres Make-up Designer Manu Halligan Dramaturg José Enrique Macián Video Artist Tomek Jeziorski Price Family Chorus Master Sandra Horst Production Consultant Richard Lee Turandot Tamara Wilson/Marjorie Owens* Calaf Sergey…
Find out more »October 2019
Opera by Request | OperOttawa: Bizet’s Pearl Fishers
Opera by Request hosts OperOttawa in Bizet’s Pearl Fishers, Friday, October 4, 7:30pm, College St. United Church, 452 College St. (Bathurst). All tickets $20.00. For reservations and information phone 416 455-2365. Leila……………..Cristina Pisani, soprano Nadir…………….Robert Martin, tenor Zurga…………….Norman E. Brown, baritone Nourabad……..John Holland, baritone Claire Harris, piano
Find out more »Tapestry Opera | Anniversary Party
Tapestry’s turning 40 in style! We’ll be tearing the roof off stackt market on Thursday, October 10th, 2019 to celebrate 40 tremendous years creating genre-altering operas. This fabulous evening showcases performances of Tapestry favourites, a dance-floor shredding DJ, and some unmissable surprises, in addition to a delectable menu prepared by stackt market in their industrial-chic space. It all kicks off at 6PM on Thursday, October 10th. Tickets are $225, or $1,600 for a table of eight. EVENT SCHEDULE: 6:00pm -…
Find out more »Against the Grain Theatre | La Bohème
#AtGBoheme — A modern love story sung in English. At a bar. The AtG production that started it all, and uprooted opera from the opera house. Our modern adaptation and English translation of the Puccini classic shifted the tale of struggling artists to the present-day, and unfolded entirely inside a historic dive bar in the heart of Toronto’s Annex neighbourhood. This fall, we tour the fully-staged remount of our acclaimed, groundbreaking English “transladaptation” of the Puccini classic. Presenting to between Banff and…
Find out more »The Met: Live in HD | Turandot (Puccini) Italian w/ e.s.t.
Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Franco Zeffirelli’s celebrated production of Turandot, which stars Christine Goerke in the title role of the icy Chinese princess who has renounced all men. Roberto Aronica sings Calàf, the suitor who risks his head for her hand and sings the famed aria “Nessun dorma.” Eleonora Buratto is the slave girl Liù, and James Morrisis Calàf’s long-lost father, Timur. LIVE Saturday, October 12, 2019 ENCORES Saturday, November 2, 2019 Monday, November 4, 2019 Wednesday, November…
Find out more »Canadian Opera Company | Rasalka
RUSALKA Antonín Dvořák OCTOBER 12 TO OCTOBER 26, 2019 Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Performance time is approximately three hours and 30 minutes, including two intermissions. CAST AND CREATIVE TEAMS Conductor Johannes Debus Director David McVicar Set Designer John Macfarlane Costume Designer Moritz Junge Lighting Designer David Finn Choreographer Andrew George Price Family Chorus Master Sandra Horst Rusalka Sondra Radvanovsky Vodník Štefan Kocán Ježibaba Elena Manistina Prince Pavel Cernoch Foreign Princess Keri Alkema First Wood Nymph Anna-Sophie Neher Second Wood Nymph Jamie Groote Third Wood Nymph Lauren Segal Gamekeeper Matthew Cairns Turnspit Lauren Eberwein Hunter Vartan Gabrielian
Find out more »University of Toronto Faculty of Music | Acis and Galatea
A story of the tragic impermanence of love as seen through the eyes of a nymph and shepherd, Acis and Galatea is the most famous of Handel’s dramatic works. The brilliant tenor Isaiah Bell, a graduate from the Historical Performance area, stage directs with the esteemed violinist and educator Larry Beckwith leading musicians from the Collegium Musicum and Schola Cantorum. Isaiah Bell, stage director Larry Beckwith, conductor
Find out more »Voicebox/Opera In Concert | L’enfant et les sortilèges & L’heure espagnole
Alluring and magical, an enchanted world leads a young child to a vision of our shared humanity, while defective grandfather clocks teach their own lessons reflecting the comedic frustrations of life. Featuring Suzy Smith, Music Director and Pianist Robert Cooper, Chorus Director Danlie Rae Acebuque Holly Chaplin Joshua Clemenger Diana Di Mauro Anika-France Forget Edward Larocque Kyle Merrithew Meghan Symon
Find out more »The Met: Live in HD | Manon (Massenet) French w/e.s.t.
SYNOPSIS Manon’s story—from innocent country girl to celebrated courtesan to destitute prisoner—is one of the great tragic tales in literature and music. Lisette Oropesa stars as the irresistible title character, the tragic beauty who yearns for the finer things in life, in Laurent Pelly’s revealing production. Michael Fabiano is the besotted Chevalier des Grieux, whose desperate love for Manon proves their undoing. Maurizio Benini conducts Massenet’s sensual score. LIVE Saturday, October 26, 2019 ENCORES Saturday, December 14, 2019 Monday, January…
Find out more »Opera Atelier | Mozart Don Giovanni
Don’t miss this outrageous comedy of an incorrigible young playboy who blazes a path to his own destruction in a single day. Firmly grounded in the tradition of the Italian commedia dell’arte, this glittering new production took Toronto by storm in 2011. Join us for our first revival – starring Douglas Williams as Don Giovanni – in the gorgeous Ed Mirvish Theatre. STARRING Colin Ainsworth, Gustav Andreassen, Mireille Asselin, Stephen Hegedus, Carla Huhtanen, Olivier Laquerre, Meghan Lindsay, Douglas Williams. …
Find out more »November 2019
Royal Conservatory | The Glenn Gould School Fall Opera: Jonathan Dove’s Siren Song
Students from The Glenn Gould School’s vocal program present Jonathan Dove’s Siren Song, with libretto by Nick Dear, led by Music Director Peter Tiefenbach. The 70-minute work for five singers, an actor, and an orchestra of 10 players is a bizarre, true story of a young sailor who exchanges letters with a beautiful and successful model. Over time a romantic and passionate relationship develops, but a meeting proves increasingly difficult to arrange. This performance contains strong language and adult situations and may…
Find out more »Opera York | La Traviata
Cast List Violetta Valéry, a courtesan Natalya Gennadi Alfredo Germont, a young bourgeois Kijong Wi Giorgio Germont, Alfredo’s father Diego Catala
Find out more »Royal Conservatory | The Glenn Gould School Fall Opera: Jonathan Dove’s Siren Song
Students from The Glenn Gould School’s vocal program present Jonathan Dove’s Siren Song, with libretto by Nick Dear, led by Music Director Peter Tiefenbach. The 70-minute work for five singers, an actor, and an orchestra of 10 players is a bizarre, true story of a young sailor who exchanges letters with a beautiful and successful model. Over time a romantic and passionate relationship develops, but a meeting proves increasingly difficult to arrange. This performance contains strong language and adult situations and may…
Find out more »Tongue in Cheek Productions/Opera 5 | Eight Singers Drinking
On Friday, November 8, 2019 Tongue in Cheek Productions will join forces with Opera 5 to present Eight Singers Drinking at Gallery 345. In this concert, singers will each sing a set of songs inspired by a cocktail. These drinks will be freshly prepared by the skilled mixologists of Opera 5 and Tongue in Cheek Productions, and each of the “drinking singers” will be required to finish their drinks by the end of their sets. The audience will have the opportunity to enjoy their choice…
Find out more »The Met: Live in HD | Madama Butterfly (Puccini) Italian w/e.s.t.
SYNOPSIS Leading sopranos Hui He and Ana María Martínez share the heartbreaking title role of the doomed geisha, with tenors Piero Pretti and Bruce Sledge as the American naval officer who abandons her. Paulo Szot and Markus Brück share the role of Sharpless, and Elizabeth DeShong is Suzuki, alternating with Maria Zifchak. Pier Giorgio Morandi is on the podium for Anthony Minghella’s sweeping production, a perennial audience favorite. LIVE Saturday, November 9, 2019 ENCORES Saturday, January 25, 2020 (Free!) Monday,…
Find out more »Soundstreams | Two Odysseys: Pimooteewin / Gállábártnit
In this double-bill, discover the world’s first music drama works sung and narrated in the Indigenous languages Cree and Sámi, and rooted in those traditional legends from Canada and the Nordic countries. These cross-cultural odysseys examine how we live on earth, how we pass to the land of the dead, and the consequences of love and sacrifice. FEATURED ARTISTS Michael Greyeyes, Cole Alvis, co-directors Melissa Hui, Britta Byström, composers Tomson Highway, Rawdna Carita Eira, librettists David Fallis, musical director Yolanda Bonnell, Heli Huovinen, narrators…
Find out more »Tapestry Opera | TAP:EX Augmented Opera
TAP:EX Augmented Opera, delves into the world of analog and digital storytelling augmentation, challenging our notion of what is real. TAP:EX Augmented Opera invites us to submerge ourselves in a night of experiential and experimental opera.
Find out more »University of Toronto Faculty of Music | The Marriage of Figaro
he Marriage of Figaro, one of the most beloved operas in the entire repertory, remains the benchmark against which all other comic operas are measured. In 1946, Mozart’s masterpiece was the first complete opera presented at the University of Toronto. We are excited to present this new period production sung in Italian, designed by Fred Perruzza with costumes by Lisa Magill. Michael Patrick Albano directs and Sandra Horst conducts. Opera Talk, a pre-performance lecture, will be given half an hour…
Find out more »Royal Conservatory | Formidable! Aznavour – The Story of a Legend
Following their sold-out Koerner Hall performance of Piaf! The Show, this new production brings us into the streets of Paris at the time of La bohème, to tell the story of Charles Aznavour’s incredible career. Surrounded by five French musicians, Jules Grison embodies, lives, and vibrates to the rhythm of music, transported by lyrics, all in the tradition of the great French song. Tickets, here.
Find out more »December 2019
Against the Grain Theatre | Figaro’s Wedding
Against the Grain Theatre's classic adaptation of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro saw Lorenzo Da Ponte’s libretto modernized, translated into English and re-staged as one of Toronto’s millennial weddings in the historic Enoch Turner Schoolhouse with the audience attending as wedding guests. The original 2013 production comes complete with ushers, a string quartet, and all the usual vows, tears, and hilarity. Sung in English. English libretto by Joel Ivany.
Find out more »University of Toronto Faculty of Music | Operatic Showpieces
The Faculty’s orchestral, opera and choral areas join forces for an evening of great operatic overtures and choruses including selections from Beethoven’s Fidelio, Wagner’s Lohengrin, Verdi’s La forza del destino, Macbeth and Aida, and the world premiere of alumnus Felipe Téllez’s 'Vocalise' from You and I, Here and There, with Nicole Percifield, mezzo-soprano and current DMA student. Sandra Horst, Uri Mayer, conductors 7:30 pm in MacMillan Theatre, 80 Queen's Park *Join us at 7 pm in Room 130, 80 Queen's Park, for Symphony Talk, a pre-performance talk with…
Find out more »Toronto Operetta Theatre | The Gypsy Baron
A riotous burst of melody, comedy and romance that rivals Die Fledermaus, The Gypsy Baron is the Waltz King unequalled musical from Vienna’s Golden Age.
Find out more »January 2020
Cineplex Events/Met Opera Live in HD | Wozzeck
Wozzeck (Berg) German w/e.s.t. – Metropolitan Opera JANUARY 11, 2020Length: 2h 02m Synopsis Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts William Kentridge’s new production of Alban Berg’s expressionistic masterpiece Wozzeck, regarded for its intense emotional power and brilliant score as one of the most significant operas of the 20th century. Composed during and in the 5 aftermath of World War I, Berg’s dark exploration of a soldier besieged by the evils of society, is staged by Kentridge in a ramshackle warren of stairs, ramps, discarded…
Find out more »Canadian Opera Company | The Barber of Seville
CAST AND CREATIVE TEAMS Conductor Speranza Scappucci Original Director Joan Font Set & Costume Designer Joan Guillén Lighting Designer Albert Faura Choreographer Xevi Dorca Price Family Chorus Master Sandra Horst Figaro Vito Priante Rosina Emily D’Angelo Almaviva Santiago Ballerini Bartolo Renato Girolami Basilio Brandon Cedel Berta Simona Genga Fiorello Joel Allison Officer Vartan Gabrielian
Find out more »An Evening With Ludwig Van | The Met: Live in HD — Madama Butterfly
An Evening With Ludwig Van - EXCLUSIVE SCREENING The MET: Live in HD — Puccini’s Madama Butterfly (Encore) Want to see an opera alongside good friends who love classical music as much as you do? As a special thank you to our readers of Ludwig van Toronto, we’re inviting readers to attend a free exclusive Encore screening of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly Live in HD from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. An Evening with Ludwig Van takes place Saturday, January 25 at 5 pm. (recommended arrival time:…
Find out more »Mississauga Symphony Orchestra | La Traviata
After successful productions of Carmen and La Bohème, the MSO will return to fully-staged opera with a production of Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece, La Traviata. This tale of love and tragedy has touched audiences across the world.
Find out more »February 2020
Met Opera Live in HD / Cineplex Canada | Porgy and Bess
Synopsis The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess returns to the Met for the first time since 1990, in a new production directed by James Robinson in his company debut. America’s “folk opera,” as the 1935 creators described it, tells the story of disabled beggar Porgy, sung by Eric Owens, and his love for the drug-addicted Bess, portrayed by Angel Blue. David Robertson conducts a stellar cast that also includes Donovan Singletary as fisherman Jake, Golda Schultz as his wife Clara, Latonia…
Find out more »Royal Conservatory of Music | Lagrime di San Pietro with Los Angeles Master Chorale, staged by Peter Sellars
Lagrime di San Pietro (The Tears of St. Peter) is a ground-breaking production of Renaissance master Orlando di Lasso’s final work, a collection of 27 madrigals sung a capella in seven parts by the Los Angeles Master Chorale. Di Lasso knew that Lagrime was to be the last piece he would ever compose, so he filled every measure with an emotionally charged texture that channeled all of his pain and remorse into a towering work of beauty. 21 singers transform this 75-minute sweeping…
Find out more »Canadian Opera Company | Hansel & Gretel
CAST AND CREATIVE TEAMS Conductor Johannes Debus Director Joel Ivany Set & Projection Designer S. Katy Tucker Costume Designer Ming Wong Lighting Designer JAX Messenger Price Family Chorus Master Sandra Horst Dramaturg Katherine Syer Hansel Emily Fons Gretel Simone Osborne Peter Russell Braun Gertrude Krisztina Szabó The Witch Michael Colvin Sandman/Dew Fairy Anna-Sophie Neher
Find out more »Nathaniel Dett Chorale | Voices of the Diaspora – Harriet Tubman: The Opera
HARRIET TUBMAN: WHEN I CROSSED THAT LINE TO FREEDOM is a two act opera that tells of how a young girl born in slavery, becomes Harriet Tubman, the legendary Underground Railroad conductor. Based on recent Tubman biographies, the story is told in the context of Tubman’s tight-knit family of lively characters. HARRIET TUBMAN carries the universal themes of sisterhood, courage, sacrifice and doing what is necessary to keep a family together. Moreover it is a heartwarming tale of two sisters…
Find out more »Canadian Opera Company | Hansel and Gretel: Special Performance for Young Audiences
An adaptation of the new COC co-production by Engelbert Humperdinck, with the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Join Hansel and Gretel on a musical adventure! The classic fairytale gets an urban twist when two curious siblings set off to explore their surroundings – and encounter some quirky neighbours along the way. With no limits to their imaginations, the ordinary becomes extraordinary in this timeless story of family, teamwork, and everyday magic. This 90-minute adaptation of the COC’s full-length opera…
Find out more »Opera by Request | Ring Cycle: Das Rheingold
Over one weekend, OBR and Berlin Wagner Gruppe perform all four epic music dramas, based loosely on characters from the Norse Sagas and the Nibelungenlied, and written and composed by Richard Wagner.
Find out more »Opera by Request | Ring Cycle: Die Walkure
Over one weekend, OBR and Berlin Wagner Gruppe perform all four epic music dramas, based loosely on characters from the Norse Sagas and the Nibelungenlied, and written and composed by Richard Wagner.
Find out more »Opera by Request | Ring Cycle: Siegfried
Over one weekend, OBR and Berlin Wagner Gruppe perform all four epic music dramas, based loosely on characters from the Norse Sagas and the Nibelungenlied, and written and composed by Richard Wagner.
Find out more »Voicebox/Opera in Concert | Kamouraska
In commemoration of the iconic Canadian composer, Charles Wilson, VOICEBOX presents the classic and tumultuous love triangle played out near a village in Quebec, brought to life by the profound artistry of Anne Hebert… resounding in its musical re-imagining for the lyric stage. Featuring Robert Cooper, Conductor and Chorus Director Jennifer Taverner Matt Chittick Cairan Ryan
Find out more »Opera by Request | Ring Cycle: Gotterdammerung
Over one weekend, OBR and Berlin Wagner Gruppe perform all four epic music dramas, based loosely on characters from the Norse Sagas and the Nibelungenlied, and written and composed by Richard Wagner.
Find out more »Tapestry Opera | Jacqueline
Libretto by Royce Vavrek | Music by Luna Pearl Woolf | Dramaturgy and Direction by Michael Hidetoshi Mori February 19 - 23, 2020
Find out more »Opera York | The Merry Widow
Cast List Hanna Glawari, a wealthy widow Sarah Papini Count Danilo Danilovitsch, First Secretary of the Pontevedrin Embassy
Find out more »Met Opera Live in HD/ Cineplex Canada | Agrippina
In the Met’s first-ever performances of Agrippina, Handel’s satire of sex and power politics, Sir David McVicar reconceives a production he originally created for the Monnaie in Brussels in 2000, evoking a scandalous world in which the Roman Empire never fell but simply kept going right up to the present. Holding a distorted mirror to contemporary society (as Handel did when he staged this opera), the production presents the corrupt intrigues of the political classes, brought to life by Joyce…
Find out more »March 2020
The MET: Live in HD | Wozzeck (Berg) German w/e.s.t. [ENCORE]
Synopsis Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts William Kentridge’s new production of Alban Berg’s expressionistic masterpiece Wozzeck, regarded for its intense emotional power and brilliant score as one of the most significant operas of the 20th century. Composed during and in the 5 aftermath of World War I, Berg’s dark exploration of a soldier besieged by the evils of society, is staged by Kentridge in a ramshackle warren of stairs, ramps, discarded furniture, and debris. His own theatrically animated charcoal drawings, along with…
Find out more »University of Toronto Faculty of Music | Mansfield Park
Following his arresting production of Handel’s Imeneo, renowned director Tim Albery returns to direct the Canadian premiere of Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park. Based on the novel by Jane Austen in which the young Fanny Price is sent from her impoverished home to live at Mansfield Park, the country estate of her wealthy uncle, where her problems become increasingly complicated. This new production is designed by Michelle Tracey with lighting by Jason Hand. Sandra Horst conducts. Opera Talk, a pre-performance lecture,…
Find out more »The MET: Live in HD | Der Fliegende Holländer (Wagner) German w/e.s.t. [LIVE]
Synopsis François Girard, whose mystical, blood-drenched vision for Wagner’s Parsifal became one of the Met’s most intensely visceral highlights in recent seasons, turns to another Wagnerian masterpiece, Der Fliegende Holländer, conducted by Valery Gergiev. Evgeny Nikitin is the mysterious seafarer searching for salvation, with Anja Kampe as the devoted Senta, whose love can set him free. In a nod to Senta’s obsession with a portrait of the legendary title seafarer, the Met stage is transformed into a colossal oil painting.…
Find out more »Royal Conservatory | Ravel’s L’heure espagnole and Puccini’s Suor Angelica – Cancelled Due to COVID-19
The extraordinary artists of The Glenn Gould School vocal program and Royal Conservatory Orchestra perform a double-bill of Ravel’s musical comedy about a clockmaker’s unfaithful wife, L’heure espagnole, and Puccini’s one-act opera set in a convent, Suor Angelica, conducted by Nicolas Ellis and directed by Michael Cavanagh. Tickets and details, HERE.
Find out more »CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 — The MET: Live in HD | The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess English w/e.s.t. [Encore]
SYNOPSIS The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess returns to the Met for the first time since 1990, in a new production directed by James Robinson in his company debut. America’s “folk opera,” as the 1935 creators described it, tells the story of disabled beggar Porgy, sung by Eric Owens, and his love for the drug-addicted Bess, portrayed by Angel Blue. David Robertson conducts a stellar cast that also includes Donovan Singletary as fisherman Jake, Golda Schultz as his wife Clara, Latonia…
Find out more »April 2020
The MET: Live in HD | Tosca (Puccini) Italian w/e.s.t [Live]
Synopsis Sir David McVicar’s bold staging of Puccini’s operatic thriller returns to the Live in HD series after its acclaimed broadcast in 2017. This time, star soprano Anna Netrebko is the passionate title diva, opposite Brian Jagde as her lover, the idealistic painter Mario Cavaradossi. Michael Volle is the menacing Baron Scarpia, the evil chief of police. Bertrand de Billy conducts the electrifying score, which features some of Puccini’s most memorable melodies. Cast Anna Netrebko (Tosca), Brian Jagde (Cavaradossi), Michael Volle (Scarpia), Patrick…
Find out more »Opera Atelier | Handel The Resurrection
Handel’s astonishing theatricality turns the story of the Resurrection into an operatic tour de force. The Resurrection details the events between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, with the timeless forces of darkness and light operating in both the earthly and celestial spheres. Our all-star Canadian cast brings this fully staged masterpiece to the glorious acoustics of Koerner Hall just in time for the Easter season. Tickets, here.
Find out more »Met Opera Live in HD/ Cineplex Canada | Agrippina [ENCORE]
In the Met’s first-ever performances of Agrippina, Handel’s satire of sex and power politics, Sir David McVicar reconceives a production he originally created for the Monnaie in Brussels in 2000, evoking a scandalous world in which the Roman Empire never fell but simply kept going right up to the present. Holding a distorted mirror to contemporary society (as Handel did when he staged this opera), the production presents the corrupt intrigues of the political classes, brought to life by Joyce…
Find out more »Canadian Opera Company | Aida
CAST AND CREATIVE TEAMS Conductor Jader Bignamini Director Tim Albery Set Designer Hildegard Bechtler Costume Designer Jon Morrell Lighting Designer Thomas C. Hase Choreographer Laila Diallo Price Family Chorus Master Sandra Horst Aida Tamara Wilson Radames Russell Thomas Amneris Clémentine Margaine Amonasro Roland Wood Ramfis Goderdzi Janelidze King of Egypt Richard Wiegold Messenger Matthew Cairns Priestess Simona Genga
Find out more »Against the Grain Theatre | Bound
In Spring 2020, composer Kevin Lau and librettist Joel Ivany present the world premiere of BOUND. A fully realized three-year concept to realization project that infuses new sounds and ideas into the backbone of Handel’s existing works. In the wake of the world’s refugee crisis, this operatic premiere explores the current state of those displaced, dehumanized and mistreated, with texts and stories drawn from real-life news articles and world events.
Find out more »May 2020
Canadian Opera Company | The Flying Dutchman
CAST AND CREATIVE TEAMS Conductor Johannes Debus Director Christopher Alden Set & Costume Designer Allen Moyer Lighting Designer Anne Militello Price Family Chorus Master Sandra Horst The Dutchman Vitalij Kowaljow Senta Marjorie Owens Daland Dmitry Ulyanov The Steersman Miles Mykkanen Mary Ewa Płonka Erik Michael Schade COC production With the COC Orchestra & Chorus
Find out more »Soundstreams | Musik für das Ende
At the age of 34, Quebec composer Claude Vivier was murdered by a man he picked up in a Parisian bar. On his desk, an unfinished piece of music appeared to foretell his own death. The man and myth are inseparable from Vivier’s music, driven by a dangerous life lived at the very extremes of human experience. From there, he brought back a vision of the pure sound and light of eternity. In this immersive spectacle for 10 singers, actor,…
Find out more »The MET: Live in HD | Maria Stuarda (Donizetti) Italian w/e.s.t.[Live]
Synopsis Donizetti’s drama, focused on the political and personal rivalry between two queens, returns to the Met with Diana Damrau as the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots, and Jamie Barton as her rival, Queen Elizabeth I. Stephen Costello sings the role of Mary’s lover, Leicester; Andrzej Filonczyk is the chancellor Cecil; and Michele Pertusi sings the Earl Talbot. Maurizio Benini conducts Sir David McVicar’s sweeping production. Cast Diana Damrau (Maria Stuarda), Jamie Barton (Elisabetta), Stephen Costello (Leicester), Andrzej Filonczyk (Cecil), Michele Pertusi (Talbot) Directors…
Find out more »The MET: Live in HD | Der Fliegende Holländer (Wagner) German w/e.s.t. [Encore]
Synopsis François Girard, whose mystical, blood-drenched vision for Wagner’s Parsifal became one of the Met’s most intensely visceral highlights in recent seasons, turns to another Wagnerian masterpiece, Der Fliegende Holländer, conducted by Valery Gergiev. Evgeny Nikitin is the mysterious seafarer searching for salvation, with Anja Kampe as the devoted Senta, whose love can set him free. In a nod to Senta’s obsession with a portrait of the legendary title seafarer, the Met stage is transformed into a colossal oil painting.…
Find out more »June 2020
The MET: Live in HD | Tosca (Puccini) Italian w/e.s.t [Encore]
Synopsis Sir David McVicar’s bold staging of Puccini’s operatic thriller returns to the Live in HD series after its acclaimed broadcast in 2017. This time, star soprano Anna Netrebko is the passionate title diva, opposite Brian Jagde as her lover, the idealistic painter Mario Cavaradossi. Michael Volle is the menacing Baron Scarpia, the evil chief of police. Bertrand de Billy conducts the electrifying score, which features some of Puccini’s most memorable melodies. Cast Anna Netrebko (Tosca), Brian Jagde (Cavaradossi), Michael Volle (Scarpia), Patrick…
Find out more »The MET: Live in HD | Maria Stuarda (Donizetti) Italian w/e.s.t.[Encore]
Synopsis Donizetti’s drama, focused on the political and personal rivalry between two queens, returns to the Met with Diana Damrau as the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots, and Jamie Barton as her rival, Queen Elizabeth I. Stephen Costello sings the role of Mary’s lover, Leicester; Andrzej Filonczyk is the chancellor Cecil; and Michele Pertusi sings the Earl Talbot. Maurizio Benini conducts Sir David McVicar’s sweeping production. Cast Diana Damrau (Maria Stuarda), Jamie Barton (Elisabetta), Stephen Costello (Leicester), Andrzej Filonczyk (Cecil), Michele Pertusi (Talbot) Directors…
Find out more »July 2020
Brott Music Live | Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni—mixing comedy, tragedy and drama with the supernatural—an abridged version of Mozart’s famous opera. Available on Facebook and Youtube--visit Brottmusic.com for performance links. A special appearance by baritone Phillip Addis as Don Giovanni! Simon Chalifoux: Leporello Jamal Al Titi: Masetto River Guard: Don Ottavio Stephanie DeCiantis: Donna Elvira Shantelle Przybylo: Donna Anna Marie-Andree Mathieu: Zerlina with John Fanning as the Commendatore Directed by Anna Theodosakis
Find out more »November 2020
TAPESTRY OPERA | Love Songs: A Saxophony
A Tapestry Opera and New Music Concerts co-production By Ana Sokolovic | Starring soprano Xin Wang and saxophonist Wallace Halladay | Direction and concept by Michael Hidetoshi Mori, co-developed with Xin Wang Details, HERE.
Find out more »December 2020
OPERA ATELIER | Something Rich & Strange
Something Rich & Strange - Saturday, December 12 at 7pm Opera Atelier proudly announces the new livestream date of the highly anticipated world premiere of Something Rich & Strange, based on the famous quote from Shakespeare’s The Tempest and featuring some of Canada's finest artists, Saturday, December 12, 2020 at 7pm. Originally set to premiere in late September, but postponed due to COVID-19 provincial health and safety regulations, the fully-staged production will be livestreamed from Koerner Hall at the TELUS…
Find out more »Essential Opera | December
Essential Opera presents December Music and libretto by Monica Pearce World Première on YouTube Monday, December 21, 2020, 8pm Atlantic Time Featuring sopranos Erin Bardua, Maureen Batt, and Danielle Buonaiuto with music direction by Tara Scott Tickets available here.
Find out more »February 2021
University of Toronto | Opera Student Composer Collective: Escape Room (online)
Escape Room, this season's Opera Student Composer Collective production, is a comedy with an intriguing scenario of characters trapped in a darkened room with no memory of how they got there. This will be broadcast Sunday, February 28, 2021. Zoom Pre-Registration Link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_B-WXgTRaTMmeiId1v92xdg All programs are subject to change. Details here.
Find out more »March 2021
University of Toronto | U of T Opera presents Opera in Miniature: An Evening of One Act Operas (online)
Join us for Opera in Miniature: An Evening of One Act Operas, chosen from the extensive repertory of one act operas showcasing the poignancy and intimacy of the art form. These productions will be broadcast on Friday, March 12, 2021 and Saturday, March 13, 2021. Individual links to each production will be posted closer to the event date. All programs are subject to change. Repeats March 12-13, 2021. Details here.
Find out more »University of Toronto Faculty of Music | Joyce El-Khoury Masterclass
This master class will be available for public viewing on the Faculty of Music's YouTube channel starting at 3 pm on Thursday, March 18. The Faculty of Music is thrilled to welcome soprano Joyce El-Khoury for this year's Riki Turofsky Master Class in Voice. Joyce El-Khoury has an acclaimed reputation for bringing newly discovered/rarely performed works to life, most recently with the world premieres of Donizetti’s L’Ange de Nisida (Royal Opera House (ROH)) and Franz Liszt’s Sardanapalo (Weimar Staatskapelle) – both captured and released internationally. Born in Lebanon…
Find out more »Toronto Operetta Theatre | The Gondoliers
From FRIDAY, MARCH 19 until MONDAY, APRIL 5, 2021 The twelfth collaboration between composer Arthur Sullivan and librettist W.S. Gilbert, The Gondoliers (or The King of Barataria) tells the story of two charming Venetian gondoliers, Giuseppe and Marco, who are informed that due to an error of identity when they were young boys, one of them is the heir to the throne of Barataria. At birth, Casilda, the 21-year-old daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Plaza-Toro, was married by proxy…
Find out more »Tapestry Opera | Where Do I Go?
Morgan-Paige Melbourne creates a lush, dramatic world from her unique fusion of contemporary classical, pop, and electronic, told through original music and lyrics and brought to life on Tapestry’s Bösenorfer Imperial Grand Piano. Contemporary dancer and Dora Award nominee Natasha Poon Woo weaves her beautiful rhythmic talent with Melbourne’s evocative music, sharing a story of two parallel journeys as the musician and a dancer search for freedom in their authentic voices. Rock Bottom Movement’s Artistic Director and Choreographer Alyssa Martin brings her absurdist, interdisciplinary dance-theatre…
Find out more »April 2021
Against The Grain Theatre | Messiah/Complex
Back by popular demand, Messiah/Complex returns for an encore presentation starting April 1st on AtG TV. This Easter, the globally-lauded and distinctly Canadian reimagining of Handel’s Messiah, accompanied by and in partnership with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO), becomes available for free on-demand viewing from April 1-April 13, 2021.
Find out more »Royal Conservatory/Glenn Gould School | The Rape of Lucretia
The extraordinary artists of The Glenn Gould School vocal program perform their annual opera in Koerner Hall, this year in a concert version format. Etruscan prince Tarquinius, who is leading Rome in a war against the Greeks, is tired of hearing his general Collatinus speak of his virtuous wife Lucretia and decides to test her. He comes to her house in Rome, demands shelter, and reassures her that Collatinus is well. That night, he enters her bedroom and rapes her,…
Find out more »May 2021
University of Toronto Opera | Spotlight on Diversity
Rescheduled from March 26, this audio broadcast features U of T Opera Diversity Coach Korin Thomas-Smith curating this concert which focuses on the history and contributions of marginalized groups in classical music. Free registration here.
Find out more »Toronto Wagner Society | Jane Eaglen
Wagnerian soprano Jane Eaglen is the guest of Toronto Wagner Society. Opened to TWS members. Non-members are welcome to join this special Zoom event by sending a request to info@torontowagnersociety.ca
Find out more »Opera Atelier | The Resurrection
Premieres May 27, 2021 | Koerner Hall, TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning, 273 Bloor St W Tickets available for purchase until June 10, 2021 Handel’s astonishing theatricality turns the story of The Resurrection into an operatic tour-de-force. The Resurrection details the events between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, with the timeless forces of darkness and light operating in the earthly and celestial spheres. Our exceptional cast of OA artists brings this fully-staged masterpiece to the glorious acoustics of Koerner Hall. FEATURING…
Find out more »Opera InReach | Songs of Childhood
The concert will feature works by composers Kosaku Yamada and Yoshinao Nakada, with words by poets Rofu Miki and Shuichi Kato, as well as traditional Bicolano and Tagalog folks songs arranged by Lucrecia R. Kasilag. The performers will include mezzo-soprano Renee Fajardo, baritone Luka Kawabata and pianist Perri Lo. An email with the link to the mini-concert livestream will be sent on the day of the event (May 31).
Find out more »June 2021
Against The Grain Theatre | Sāvitri
A contemporary 40-minute film based on the ancient Hindu Legend of Sāvitri — Sāvitri is based on the ancient Hindu Legend from The Vana Parva (The book of the Forest) of the Mahābhārata. A contemporary 40-minute film of the outdoor chamber opera by Gustav Holst. Director Miriam Khalil | Associate Director Simran Claire Starring Meher Pavri as Sāvitri | Vartan Gabrielian as Yama, God of Death | Andrew Haji as Satyavān A legend for our time. The story of Sāvitri is based on…
Find out more »July 2021
Toronto Summer Music Festival | Russell Braun Masterclass
This masterclass is FREE, with advance registration required. Registration will become available on this page one week prior to the event. Join JUNO-winning baritone Russell Braun for a casual and engaging masterclass on voice, featuring our TSM Art of Song Fellows.
Find out more »August 2021
Festival of the Sound | Arias & Antics: A Night Of Summer Opera
Join Leslie Fagan, Guy Few, and friends as they bring the joys of Italy to your home. Enjoy an evening of opera hits, Italian recipes, drink pairings, and fun. Get together with the artists before and after the broadcast to have a chat and make a toast.
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