Thursday, October 23, 2025 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm – One of the most exciting nights in Toronto’s cultural calendar! Centre Stage: Ensemble Studio Competition & Gala—the Canadian Opera Company’s signature fundraising event—is returning to the mainstage in spectacular style on Thursday October 23, 2025. This unforgettable evening combines world-class music, stunning performances, and elegant celebration—all in support of the rising stars of opera. Since […]
Saturday, October 25, 2025 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm – Orfeo’s wife, Euridice, has died. The Gods permit the grief-stricken Orfeo to follow his wife to the Underworld to bring her back, on the condition that he not look at her until they are safely back on Earth. However, Orfeo breaks the condition, only to see his wife die once more. Amore takes pity on […]
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Orfeo’s wife, Euridice, has died. The Gods permit the grief-stricken Orfeo to follow his wife to the Underworld to bring her back, on the condition that he not look at her until they are safely back on Earth. However, Orfeo breaks the condition, only to see his wife die once more. Amore takes pity on […]
Sunday, October 19, 2025 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm – Orfeo’s wife, Euridice, has died. The Gods permit the grief-stricken Orfeo to follow his wife to the Underworld to bring her back, on the condition that he not look at her until they are safely back on Earth. However, Orfeo breaks the condition, only to see his wife die once more. Amore takes pity on […]
Friday, October 17, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Orfeo’s wife, Euridice, has died. The Gods permit the grief-stricken Orfeo to follow his wife to the Underworld to bring her back, on the condition that he not look at her until they are safely back on Earth. However, Orfeo breaks the condition, only to see his wife die once more. Amore takes pity on […]
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Orfeo’s wife, Euridice, has died. The Gods permit the grief-stricken Orfeo to follow his wife to the Underworld to bring her back, on the condition that he not look at her until they are safely back on Earth. However, Orfeo breaks the condition, only to see his wife die once more. Amore takes pity on […]
Saturday, October 11, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Orfeo’s wife, Euridice, has died. The Gods permit the grief-stricken Orfeo to follow his wife to the Underworld to bring her back, on the condition that he not look at her until they are safely back on Earth. However, Orfeo breaks the condition, only to see his wife die once more. Amore takes pity on […]
Thursday, October 9, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Orfeo’s wife, Euridice, has died. The Gods permit the grief-stricken Orfeo to follow his wife to the Underworld to bring her back, on the condition that he not look at her until they are safely back on Earth. However, Orfeo breaks the condition, only to see his wife die once more. Amore takes pity on […]
Saturday, October 18, 2025 @ 4:30 pm – 7:45 pm – Literature’s greatest romance is reimagined in a bold and colourful new vision from international director Amy Lane. Relocating the feuding Montagues and Capulets from Renaissance Verona to Gilded Age New York, this daring and delightful production takes audiences on a journey from the soaring emotional highs of young love to heartrending despair as a fateful […]
Thursday, October 16, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 10:45 pm – Literature’s greatest romance is reimagined in a bold and colourful new vision from international director Amy Lane. Relocating the feuding Montagues and Capulets from Renaissance Verona to Gilded Age New York, this daring and delightful production takes audiences on a journey from the soaring emotional highs of young love to heartrending despair as a fateful […]
Tuesday, October 14, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 10:45 pm – Literature’s greatest romance is reimagined in a bold and colourful new vision from international director Amy Lane. Relocating the feuding Montagues and Capulets from Renaissance Verona to Gilded Age New York, this daring and delightful production takes audiences on a journey from the soaring emotional highs of young love to heartrending despair as a fateful […]
Friday, October 10, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 10:45 pm – Literature’s greatest romance is reimagined in a bold and colourful new vision from international director Amy Lane. Relocating the feuding Montagues and Capulets from Renaissance Verona to Gilded Age New York, this daring and delightful production takes audiences on a journey from the soaring emotional highs of young love to heartrending despair as a fateful […]
Saturday, May 24, 2025 @ 4:30 pm – 7:00 pm – Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin is one of opera’s most romantic masterpieces, an aching meditation on happiness undone. Canadian director Robert Carsen’s stunningly simple staging enjoys an international reputation as “a piece of contemporary operatic history” (The Globe and Mail) and returns to the COC for the first time since 2018. Speranza Scappucci conducts Tchaikovsky’s adored lyric opera, with […]
Saturday, May 17, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm – Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin is one of opera’s most romantic masterpieces, an aching meditation on happiness undone. Canadian director Robert Carsen’s stunningly simple staging enjoys an international reputation as “a piece of contemporary operatic history” (The Globe and Mail) and returns to the COC for the first time since 2018. Speranza Scappucci conducts Tchaikovsky’s adored lyric opera, with […]
Thursday, May 15, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm – Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin is one of opera’s most romantic masterpieces, an aching meditation on happiness undone. Canadian director Robert Carsen’s stunningly simple staging enjoys an international reputation as “a piece of contemporary operatic history” (The Globe and Mail) and returns to the COC for the first time since 2018. Speranza Scappucci conducts Tchaikovsky’s adored lyric opera, with […]
Friday, May 9, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm – Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin is one of opera’s most romantic masterpieces, an aching meditation on happiness undone. Canadian director Robert Carsen’s stunningly simple staging enjoys an international reputation as “a piece of contemporary operatic history” (The Globe and Mail) and returns to the COC for the first time since 2018. Speranza Scappucci conducts Tchaikovsky’s adored lyric opera, with […]
Wednesday, May 7, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm – Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin is one of opera’s most romantic masterpieces, an aching meditation on happiness undone. Canadian director Robert Carsen’s stunningly simple staging enjoys an international reputation as “a piece of contemporary operatic history” (The Globe and Mail) and returns to the COC for the first time since 2018. Speranza Scappucci conducts Tchaikovsky’s adored lyric opera, with […]
Sunday, May 4, 2025 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm – Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin is one of opera’s most romantic masterpieces, an aching meditation on happiness undone. Canadian director Robert Carsen’s stunningly simple staging enjoys an international reputation as “a piece of contemporary operatic history” (The Globe and Mail) and returns to the COC for the first time since 2018. Speranza Scappucci conducts Tchaikovsky’s adored lyric opera, with […]
Friday, May 2, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm – Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin is one of opera’s most romantic masterpieces, an aching meditation on happiness undone. Canadian director Robert Carsen’s stunningly simple staging enjoys an international reputation as “a piece of contemporary operatic history” (The Globe and Mail) and returns to the COC for the first time since 2018. Speranza Scappucci conducts Tchaikovsky’s adored lyric opera, with […]
Friday, May 16, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm – Tormented by visions and humiliated by his superiors, the soldier Wozzeck (baritone Michael Kupfer-Radecky) discovers that his lover, Marie (soprano Ambur Braid), has entertained the advances of the Drum Major (tenor Matthew Cairns)—a revelation that will culminate in murder, madness, and self-destruction. This landmark of 20th-century music is brought to life in a new production […]
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm – Tormented by visions and humiliated by his superiors, the soldier Wozzeck (baritone Michael Kupfer-Radecky) discovers that his lover, Marie (soprano Ambur Braid), has entertained the advances of the Drum Major (tenor Matthew Cairns)—a revelation that will culminate in murder, madness, and self-destruction. This landmark of 20th-century music is brought to life in a new production […]
Saturday, May 10, 2025 @ 4:30 pm – 7:00 pm – Tormented by visions and humiliated by his superiors, the soldier Wozzeck (baritone Michael Kupfer-Radecky) discovers that his lover, Marie (soprano Ambur Braid), has entertained the advances of the Drum Major (tenor Matthew Cairns)—a revelation that will culminate in murder, madness, and self-destruction. This landmark of 20th-century music is brought to life in a new production […]
Thursday, May 8, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm – Tormented by visions and humiliated by his superiors, the soldier Wozzeck (baritone Michael Kupfer-Radecky) discovers that his lover, Marie (soprano Ambur Braid), has entertained the advances of the Drum Major (tenor Matthew Cairns)—a revelation that will culminate in murder, madness, and self-destruction. This landmark of 20th-century music is brought to life in a new production […]
Saturday, May 3, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm – Tormented by visions and humiliated by his superiors, the soldier Wozzeck (baritone Michael Kupfer-Radecky) discovers that his lover, Marie (soprano Ambur Braid), has entertained the advances of the Drum Major (tenor Matthew Cairns)—a revelation that will culminate in murder, madness, and self-destruction. This landmark of 20th-century music is brought to life in a new production […]
Sunday, April 27, 2025 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm – Tormented by visions and humiliated by his superiors, the soldier Wozzeck (baritone Michael Kupfer-Radecky) discovers that his lover, Marie (soprano Ambur Braid), has entertained the advances of the Drum Major (tenor Matthew Cairns)—a revelation that will culminate in murder, madness, and self-destruction. This landmark of 20th-century music is brought to life in a new production […]
Friday, April 25, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm – Tormented by visions and humiliated by his superiors, the soldier Wozzeck (baritone Michael Kupfer-Radecky) discovers that his lover, Marie (soprano Ambur Braid), has entertained the advances of the Drum Major (tenor Matthew Cairns)—a revelation that will culminate in murder, madness, and self-destruction. This landmark of 20th-century music is brought to life in a new production […]
