Vol. LIX, No. 1

Opera Canada

Canada's only Magazine Dedicated Exclusively to Opera

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Notebook
The heatwave that has affected Canada and Europe this summer brought soaring temperatures to the two opera festivals I attended in August: Festival d’Opera de Quebec and the Bayreuther Festspiele in Bavaria, Germany. You can read my review of Quebec’
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Opera In The News
Musique 3 Femmes has announced the winners of a new prize honouring emerging Canadian women composers and librettists. The $25,000 Mécénat Musica Prix 3 Femmes Award recognizes all-female creative teams who demonstrate “extraordinary promise in the f
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Jessica Strong
When reading Canadian soprano Jessica Strong’s resume, one is struck that at the relatively young age of 31, she has already sung so many major roles: Elvira, Micaela, Amelia Grimaldi, Alice Ford, Lina, Donna Anna and Vanessa to name just some. Wheth
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Douglas Begoray
Walking into the opera costume department of Malabar Limited is like entering into an ostentatious and intricate lair. As Victorian-style dresses sway from hangers above and embroidered suits with tassels dance as the wind blows through the door, the
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Letter from Paris
Opera national de Paris’s (ONP) 17/18 season opened on Sept. 9th, 2017 with a vintage production: Jorge Lavelli’s The Merry Widow from 1997 featuring a glamourous new cast headed by Veronique Gens (Hanna Glawari) and Thomas Hampson (Danilo). Though L
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Will Hadrian conquer?
More than a decade in the making, this summer the Canadian Opera Company fine-tunes its biggest and riskiest creative venture in two decades. In October, the curtain goes up on the world premiere of Rufus Wainwright’s Hadrian, the first full-length c
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Adam Fisher
It’s the very early days of spring in Toronto, which means fluctuating weather conditions. Today is no exception, with the bright sunny morning turning into a chilly afternoon filled with flurries. Adam Fisher pulls up to the coffee shop on his bike,
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Nowhere In Sight
The availability of live-streamed and on-demand opera has exploded in the last five years. Major companies like Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), Opéra national de Paris, Grand Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona) and Vienna State Opera have cinema distribu
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Opera NUOVA
Twenty years ago, Kim Mattice Wanat was an aspiring opera singer and voice teacher. She’d attended summer programs in Europe and the U.S., while intermittently taking lessons with Nico and Carol Castel in New York. On one trip, she and the Castels me
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Opera De Montreal’s Rayonnement
In 2016, when Patrick Corrigan was appointed the new General Director of Opera de Montreal, he was inheriting a periodically troubled company, one that had finally found its feet again after several financially and artistically uncertain years in the
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Take This Waltz
The Australian-born Intendant of Komische Oper Berlin (KOB) is direct in his opinions about music, art, the possibilities therein, and the evolution of each. “What people have to understand is, don’t confuse a night in the theatre or at the opera wit
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Opera At Home
BOESMANS Cypres: Cyp4647 Belgian Philippe Boesmans is not well-known in North America as an opera composer, but this treatment of the classic children’s fable is his eighth full-length venture in lyric theatre, here recorded live in Sept. 2017 at Bru
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Opera in Review
Southern Ontario Lyric Opera’s double bill of I pagliacci and Gianni Schicchi (seen Mar. 3) made an excellent pairing—both operas include a monster hit aria, both take place in Italian cityscapes, and both revolve around themes of love and criminal a
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The Final Word
Picnicking, boozing and standing ovations Lydia Perović reflects on audience behaviour—across national, class and gender lines That an audience is a culture, that much I knew. But I am always intrigued by how much audiences differ when I travel outsi
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Calendar Highlights
For the most up-to-date listings of opera events across the country, visit Opera Canada’s online Calendar at operacanada.ca/calendar 9 PAPER CANOE PROJECTS & CAHOOTS THEATRE, Toronto. Premiere of I Call Myself Princess, Metis actor and playwright Jan

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