The Atlanta Opera celebrates its 45th anniversary during the 2024-25 season, with productions inspired by the archetypal “hero’s journey” found in myths and fairytales from around the world.
Canadian Opera Company welcomes sopranos Emily Rocha and Gabrielle Turgeon, and bass Duncan Stenhouse to its highly specialized development program for Canadian opera professionals.
We’re starting off the new year with appointments to the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario, a host of new releases, and several concerts featuring notable Quebecois classical performers.
This week we’ve seen several big appointments at various festivals, orchestras, and opera companies. More holiday concerts are on their way, and several publications have released their top albums of the year.
Bradley Cooper has released Maestro and critics are conflicted on how well it portrays the life of conductor, composer, and educator Leonard Bernstein.
Bradyworks, in co-production with Chants libres, announces the world premiere of a bold new, bilingual chamber opera: Information.
On the 100th anniversary of soprano Maria Callas’s birth (Dec. 2, 1923), we are streaming recordings of Maria Callas 24/7 from Dec. 2 to 19, 2023. À l’occasion du 100e anniversaire de la naissance de Maria Callas (2 décembre 1923), nous diffusons des enregistrements de Maria Callas 24 heures sur 24, 7 jours sur 7, du 2 au 19 décembre 2023. Playlist / Liste d’écoute La Divina – The Best of Maria Callas (compilation), Warner Music CD1: Studio Recordings Norma, Act 1: “Casta Diva” (Norma, Coro) Carmen, Act 1: Habanera. “L’amour Est Un Oiseau Rebelle” (Carmen, Chur) La Cenerentola,…
Festival Classica is proud to announce the creation of the Les Grands accords Classica series, a new line of large-scale concerts that will enhance the event’s regular program.
The release of the “final” Beatles song, Now and Then, has been bittersweet for fans of the 1960s boy band.
Against the Grain Theatre (AtG) is a pillar of the Canadian opera scene. The award-winning company has been pushing boundaries and challenging audiences to experience opera in exciting, new ways since its founding in 2010 by director, librettist, educator, and administrator Joel Ivany, and his partner, soprano Miriam Khalil. Ivany didn’t grow up with opera. He recalls watching La Bohème, starring Pavarotti, on Laser Disk, and later, going to the Canadian Opera Company (COC) for the first time, in Grade 13. Entranced by the “big stage, big sound, big … everything,” he remembers thinking: “How are we going to…
