{"id":116560,"date":"2025-08-06T11:50:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T15:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=116560"},"modified":"2025-08-07T10:41:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T14:41:51","slug":"feature-tapestry-opera-will-let-ship-box-concert-street-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2025\/08\/06\/feature-tapestry-opera-will-let-ship-box-concert-street-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURE | Tapestry Opera Will Let You Ship A Box Concert To Your Street This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Tapestry Opera Box Concert in 2023 (Photo: Dahlia Katz)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tapestry Opera\u2019s Box Concerts are back for Summer 2025. The opera company will come to your street with a concert in a box (aka a stage on wheels with one talented performer) to entertain the hood.<\/p>\n

For the last four years, Tapestry Opera has staged more than 300 pop-up Box Concerts with an audience of more than 5,000 throughout the city.<\/p>\n

The concerts typically come at a cost of $500, but this year, Tapestry has come up with a way for you to enjoy a Box Concert at no cost.<\/p>\n

The Details<\/h2>\n

Performances are about 30 minutes long, and can take place at a private residence, community hub, or senior home in the City of Toronto.<\/p>\n

Limited dates are available between August 12 and September 13, 2025.<\/p>\n

Talent<\/h2>\n

The creative team includes Rachel Forbes (Box Design) and Benton Roark (Production Coordinator). There are four performers for 2025.<\/p>\n

Natalya Gennadi<\/h3>\n

Ukrainian-Canadian soprano Natalya Gennadi is a versatile performer with a wide ranging repertoire. She first gained public acclaim \u2014 and a Dora Award nomination \u2014 after stepping into the title role of Tapestry Opera’s Oksana G on short notice. She has performed with Voicebox:Opera in Concert, Pacific Opera Victoria, and in contemporary roles with Toronto’s Slowrise Music. In 2025, she’s sung the role of Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus with the Stratford Orchestra, and took on the soprano solo in Verdi\u2019s Requiem with the Kindred Spirits Orchestra, Orpheus Choir of Toronto, and Resound Choir.<\/p>\n

Mishael Eusebio<\/h3>\n

Filipino-Canadian tenor Mishael Eusebio is based in both Montr\u00e9al and Toronto. His repertoire includes both traditional and contemporary roles, and he’s worked with L\u2019Op\u00e9ra de Montr\u00e9al, Houston Grand Opera co., Cincinnati Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Banff Opera Centre, Opera on the Avalon, Tapestry Opera, L\u2019orchestre symphonique de Laval, Musique 3 Femmes, and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, among others. A graduate of The Juilliard School, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and L\u2019atelier lyrique de l\u2019Op\u00e9ra de Montr\u00e9al, he was a winner of the 2023 Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques.<\/p>\n

Alex Hetherington<\/h3>\n

Mezzo-soprano Alex Hetherington is a graduate of the Canadian Opera Company’s Ensemble Studio, and performed the role of Siebel in the Canadian Opera Company’s production of Faust in the 2024\/25 season. She has also performed with Vancouver Opera, Ottawa Chamberfest, Mandle Philharmonic, Chorus Niagara, Tapestry Opera, and a variety of other roles at the COC. She performed with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in 2022, which sparked a number of performances with the ensemble, including the premiere of Cecilia Livingston\u2019s orchestral arrangements of lieder selections by Clara Schumann, led by Maestro Alexander Shelley. Alex holds a Bachelor\u2019s in Voice Performance and a Master’s in Opera Performance from the University of Toronto.<\/p>\n

Keith Klassen<\/h3>\n

Tenor Keith Klassen is a graduate of the University of Toronto Opera Department, and has gone on to perform more than 100 roles across North America, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, the Czech Republic, and in the Bahamas. He’s averaged about a dozen roles each year since graduating in 2002, and has been lauded for his dramatic as well as his vocal abilities in a wide range of roles. Keith is also a filmmaker who specializes in short films that often have an operatic overlap.<\/p>\n

Tenor Asitha Tennekoon performs a Box Concert in 2021:<\/p>\n