Friday, May 17, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Never before seen on the COC stage and seldom performed anywhere in the world, Medea is an exquisite rarity, featuring one of the most challenging roles in opera history. As the culmination of our season, world-renowned soprano Sondra Radvanovsky will tackle the role, reuniting with director Sir David McVicar for this brand-new production. Medea is […]
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Never before seen on the COC stage and seldom performed anywhere in the world, Medea is an exquisite rarity, featuring one of the most challenging roles in opera history. As the culmination of our season, world-renowned soprano Sondra Radvanovsky will tackle the role, reuniting with director Sir David McVicar for this brand-new production. Medea is […]
Saturday, May 11, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Never before seen on the COC stage and seldom performed anywhere in the world, Medea is an exquisite rarity, featuring one of the most challenging roles in opera history. As the culmination of our season, world-renowned soprano Sondra Radvanovsky will tackle the role, reuniting with director Sir David McVicar for this brand-new production. Medea is […]
Thursday, May 9, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Never before seen on the COC stage and seldom performed anywhere in the world, Medea is an exquisite rarity, featuring one of the most challenging roles in opera history. As the culmination of our season, world-renowned soprano Sondra Radvanovsky will tackle the role, reuniting with director Sir David McVicar for this brand-new production. Medea is […]
Sunday, May 5, 2024 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm – Never before seen on the COC stage and seldom performed anywhere in the world, Medea is an exquisite rarity, featuring one of the most challenging roles in opera history. As the culmination of our season, world-renowned soprano Sondra Radvanovsky will tackle the role, reuniting with director Sir David McVicar for this brand-new production. Medea is […]
Friday, May 3, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Never before seen on the COC stage and seldom performed anywhere in the world, Medea is an exquisite rarity, featuring one of the most challenging roles in opera history. As the culmination of our season, world-renowned soprano Sondra Radvanovsky will tackle the role, reuniting with director Sir David McVicar for this brand-new production. Medea is […]
Tuesday, May 14, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Show your support for the next generation of opera voices with a special, one-night-only performance of Don Pasquale, featuring the artists of the COC Ensemble Studio. This presentation will strengthen the country’s leading career development program for emerging opera artists, while celebrating their exceptional talents.
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – The Canadian Art Song Project performs new and old works celebrating Black Canadian composers, including songs by R. Nathaniel Dett and the public premiere of The Colour of Joy by Maria Thompson Corley, commissioned by Canadian Art Song Project with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Tuesday, February 27, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – Inspired by COC’s winter season productions of Don Giovanni and The Cunning Little Vixen, this performance dives deeper into the worlds of Mozart and Janáček. Enjoy an afternoon break of passionate and playful music, performed by artists of the COC Orchestra and the National Ballet of Canada Orchestra.
Friday, February 23, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – Woodwinds from the COC Orchestra are out of the pit and in the spotlight for this Free Concert Series performance where they perform Mozart’s Divertimento No. 12, Dvořák’s Serenade for Winds, and Cecilia Livingston’s Gone with the Winds, in this restorative and energizing concert.
Wednesday, February 21, 2024 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm – The Schulich School of Music presents the McGill Chamber Jazz Orchestra. Launch your evening in style with a unique performance showcasing new works and arrangements by the program’s stand-out jazz students.
Tuesday, February 20, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – The story of Portia White—the daughter of a Negro Baptist minister—is a story of Black joy and Black musical royalty. This Free Concert Series performance is a celebration of soul-stirring songs adjacent to and immersed in the fabric of this new world premiere of Aportia Chryptych: A Black Opera for Portia White, premiering at the […]
Wednesday, February 14, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – Swiss-Canadian mezzo-soprano Simone McIntosh joins the COC in the winter production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni in the role of Zerlina. A graduate of the COC’s Ensemble Studio program, McIntosh recently represented Canada at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2023 competition and won a finalist spot in the art song competition. For her Free […]
Tuesday, February 13, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – This performance showcases students of The Taylor Academy at The Royal Conservatory, which, for over three decades, has nurtured young, talented musicians and has become Canada’s premiere training program for classical musicians. Prepare to be swept away by the dazzling abilities and thoughtful interpretations of these young artists.
Thursday, February 8, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – Folk tunes meet ancient evocations, with a twist of elegance and refinement in an exhibition of piano virtuosity. Beautiful melodies on one side, the power of wild rhythms on the other. Four hands create a recital with a lot to offer, with pianists Grace Jee Eun Oh and Dragoș Cantea.
Wednesday, February 7, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – While performing the title role in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, soprano Jane Archibald reunites with Liz Upchurch, the Ensemble Studio’s Head of Music, to perform a program of love and loss. This cycle dives into the love triangle between Clara Schumann, her husband Robert, and her complicated relationship with Brahms.
Saturday, February 17, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Staggering projections and eye-popping sets dial up the drama in the COC’s newest staging of Don Giovanni. Mozart’s twisted masterpiece follows a predatory aristocrat whose latest seduction spirals out of control, setting up his ultimate downfall. A cast of COC favourites and internationally celebrated artists bring this epic story to life, featuring Canadian bass-baritone Gordon […]
Friday, February 9, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Staggering projections and eye-popping sets dial up the drama in the COC’s newest staging of Don Giovanni. Mozart’s twisted masterpiece follows a predatory aristocrat whose latest seduction spirals out of control, setting up his ultimate downfall. A cast of COC favourites and internationally celebrated artists bring this epic story to life, featuring Canadian bass-baritone Gordon […]
Saturday, February 24, 2024 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm – Staggering projections and eye-popping sets dial up the drama in the COC’s newest staging of Don Giovanni. Mozart’s twisted masterpiece follows a predatory aristocrat whose latest seduction spirals out of control, setting up his ultimate downfall. A cast of COC favourites and internationally celebrated artists bring this epic story to life, featuring Canadian bass-baritone Gordon […]
Tuesday, February 13, 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – This winter, the COC invites audiences to The Cunning Little Vixen, a fairytale opera from Leoš Janáček, returning to our stage for the first time in over 20 years. After premiering last season at English National Opera, the fantastical and larger-than-life production arrives in Toronto for timely reflection on humanity’s relationship with planet Earth, set […]
Friday, February 16, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – This winter, the COC invites audiences to The Cunning Little Vixen, a fairytale opera from Leoš Janáček, returning to our stage for the first time in over 20 years. After premiering last season at English National Opera, the fantastical and larger-than-life production arrives in Toronto for timely reflection on humanity’s relationship with planet Earth, set […]
Wednesday, February 14, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – This winter, the COC invites audiences to The Cunning Little Vixen, a fairytale opera from Leoš Janáček, returning to our stage for the first time in over 20 years. After premiering last season at English National Opera, the fantastical and larger-than-life production arrives in Toronto for timely reflection on humanity’s relationship with planet Earth, set […]
Saturday, February 10, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – This winter, the COC invites audiences to The Cunning Little Vixen, a fairytale opera from Leoš Janáček, returning to our stage for the first time in over 20 years. After premiering last season at English National Opera, the fantastical and larger-than-life production arrives in Toronto for timely reflection on humanity’s relationship with planet Earth, set […]
Thursday, February 8, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – This winter, the COC invites audiences to The Cunning Little Vixen, a fairytale opera from Leoš Janáček, returning to our stage for the first time in over 20 years. After premiering last season at English National Opera, the fantastical and larger-than-life production arrives in Toronto for timely reflection on humanity’s relationship with planet Earth, set […]
Thursday, December 15, 2022 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – Artists of the COC Ensemble Studio celebrate the winter season with beloved songs, both sacred and secular, evoking both the cold of the natural world and the warmth of the winter holidays.
Tuesday, December 13, 2022 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – Artist of the COC Orchestra celebrate the 150th anniversary of Vaughan Williams with an afternoon of pieces from and inspired by the composer. Joined by tenor Marcel d’Entremont, the chamber ensemble will play Ludlow and Teme by Gurney and the Vaughan Williams quintet in C minor.
Thursday, December 8, 2022 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – This vibrand and exciting program features new works created by Anishinaabe-irish artist Olivia Shortt in collaboration with Canadian duo Orbit (Aliayta Foon-Dancoes and Isidora Nojkovic) and British-Canadian soprano Alexandra Smither. The program highlight is bagaskaadagaazii, a work that speaks about the lack of access to clean drinking water on reserves.
Tuesday, December 6, 2022 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – Pianist Michael Arnowitt performs a varied and colourful program of creative and imaginative piano compositions, past and present. Music featured in the performance are two absorbing, expressive, and deeply spiritual pieces by the present-day Ukrainian composer Victoria Poleva, rounded out by work from Debussy, Bach, Louié, and Lutoslawski.
Thursday, December 1, 2022 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – In partnership with the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Glenn Gould School as a part of the Sir Elton John Global Exchange Programme, visiting Royal Academy of Music (UK) students show off their expertise and skill in a performance at the Free Concert Series.
