El-Khoury and Kradjian have created a program that combines bel canto favourites with a collection of the Lebanese songs she grew up listening to. This repertoire will be completely new to Toronto audiences, and will include the North American première of Les cèdres by Iyad Kanaan.
Opéra de Montréal’s production of La Reine-garçon showed how important a strong cast can be to carry a contemporary opera, especially when its story of…
What began as a small group of female musicians who wanted to provide themselves and others with performance opportunities has grown into much more. Founded…
Established in 1898, the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto (WMCT) has spent the past 126 years building and maintaining an organization that supports numerous early…
Easily the most popular and often-performed opera of all times, Carmen is a hit-parade of recognizable tunes, with vibrant characters and a titillating story of…
Toronto –The Canadian Opera Company offers three bold new productions in 2019/2020 that hone in on the stories and myths that shape our perceptions –…
The Canadian Opera Company opened its 2018-19 season with a new production of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, originally premiered by the Metropolitan Opera. It…
Now here’s a surprise. A new release from Opera Rara usually consists of some bel canto work that has languished forgotten in a vault since its premiere…
by Paul E. RobinsonEvery summer Marita and I drive from Austin, Texas back to our native Canada, varying our route each year according to events…
