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Performing The Queen In Me. Photo: Dahlia Katz

Teiya Kasahara: Transforming Opera

By Hal Kowalewski on 3 April 2026 Arts Industry, Classical Music, Opera, Toronto, Vocal, West

Teiya Kasahara is best known as the creator-performer of The Queen In Me, which plays with the operatic canon to critique the exclusion of marginalized voices in the opera industry. Trained as a coloratura soprano, Kasahara came to prominence performing roles like The Magic Flute’s Queen of the Night. More recently, they have moved on to heavier, more dramatic repertoire including Madama Butterfly’s Cio-Cio San and the title role in Salome. In 2020, Kasahara went viral as the ‘Balcony Soprano’ who sang familiar repertoire from their Vancouver balcony. However, the categorization of soprano and the feminine roles that accompany it…

Summer Camp Guide 2026

By La Scena Musicale on 3 April 2026 Classical Music, Education, Guides, Montreal, Multimedia, Ottawa, Quebec City, Toronto, Vancouver, West

Acadia Summer Music Academies Wolfville, July 5 to 11 Creative Music Workshop, TD Halifax Jazz Festival Halifax, July 4 to 12 Montreal Camp Livingstone Magog, June 28 to August 7 Camp musical d’été de Montréal (CMEM) Montreal, June 29 to August 21 Camps de jour en arts de la scène Nos Voix Nos Visages Longueuil, June 29 to August 14 Creative Video Day Camp Montreal, June 29 to August 21 École de théâtre du vieux St-Eustache, camp de théâtre et d’impro St-Eustache, June 22 to August 14 Institut Suzuki Montréal Montreal, July 18 to 26 KlezKanada Summer Retreat of Yiddish…

Summer Music Camps Across Canada: Inclusive Programming for Everyone

By Hal Kowalewski on 3 April 2026 Classical Music, Education, Montreal, Multimedia, Ottawa, Quebec City, Toronto, Vancouver, West

A typical image of summer music camps might involve visions of child prodigies travelling to scenic destinations to master their art. These sorts of camps certainly exist—and we’ll highlight some of the best. But they are far from all that is out there. Free and community-funded camps, adult education camps and multidisciplinary celebrations of art can also be found across Canada. The following is a small sampling of noteworthy Canadian summer music camps. Prominent musical organizations and local community centres alike are constantly working to expand access to music education. You can find a more complete list of recommendations in…

Left: Paige Robinson (Flora) in Opera 5's The Turn of the Screw, 2024; Right: Kate Fogg in Opera 5's Elegies, 2024. Photos: Emily Ding Photography

Opera 5’s Toronto Opera Festival: A Fresh, Canadian Triptych

By Emma Yee on 3 April 2026 Canadian Music, Classical Music, Contemporary, Opera, Toronto, Vocal

Puccini’s Il trittico (The Triptych) conjures up the image of three distinct tapestries, hung side by side. In their second annual Toronto Opera Festival, Opera 5 will imbue it with a fresh, new palette of colours, invigorating Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi with established artists and young talent for performances running June 3-7. In the place of the triptych’s Il tabarro the company presents the world premiere of Cecilia Livingston’s Parḗlios on June 12. Opera 5’s 2025 festival centred on the theme of grief, featuring Rachel Krehm and Ryan Trew’s Come Closer and William Finn’s Elegies. The current Canadian Opera Company…

Photo: Bruce Zinger

Newswire | Opera Atelier Announces 2026/27 Season

By Newswire on 25 February 2026 Arts Industry, Classical Music, Newswire, Opera, Toronto

Toronto, ON — Opera Atelier founding Co-Artistic Directors Marshall Pynkoski, C.M. and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg, C.M., today announce the company’s 2026/27 Season, A Season of Heroes. The season kicks off in the glorious acoustic of Toronto’s Koerner Hall with the company’s fully staged Canadian premiere of Marc Antoine Charpentier’s extraordinary masterpiece, The Descent of Orpheus on October 22-25, 2026. The opera is based on Ovid’s myth of Orpheus, who uses his gift of music to gain entry to the underworld and to return his lover Eurydice to the land of the living. Unlike other performance versions of this myth, Charpentier’s…

Newswire | Soundstreams Announces 2026/27 Season

By Newswire on 25 February 2026 Choral, Classical Music, Contemporary, Newswire, Toronto

February 23, 2026 (TORONTO, ON)—Lawrence Cherney, Founding Artistic Director of Soundstreams, has announced the company’s 44th season, kicking off this October with a major celebration of Steve Reich, performed by some of the world’s greatest interpreters of his music. Sir James MacMillan returns to Soundstreams with his new oratorio Angels Unawares, next February. Praise Song for Oceania will feature artists and works connected by the Pacific Ocean, curated by Soundstreams New Voices Mentorship Program winner Jesse Plessis, and next June’s CELLO X 8, presented in collaboration with Luminato and VEMU Estonian Museum Canada, will invite eight virtuoso cellists from Canada…

TSO Music Director Gustavo Gimeno. Photo: Allan Cabral/Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Newswire | Toronto Symphony Orchestra Announces 2026-27 Season

By Newswire on 19 February 2026 Chamber Music, Classical Music, Newswire, Orchestral, Toronto

From Yuja Wang’s season-opening return to Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand” and a new piano concerto written and conducted by Joe Hisaishi, the 2026-27 season gathers landmark performances across Classical, Pops, film, and youth programming. The Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) shares the unparalleled power of live music with the city in its 2026/27 season. Designed by Music Director Gustavo Gimeno, the expansive lineup spans classical blockbusters and contemporary creations, hits from the soundtracks of our lives, cinematic rediscoveries, and orchestral adventures for youth and families. Among the highlights are an electric season-opening concert with internationally renowned pianist Yuja Wang; the completion of a two-year…

Newswire | An Exciting World Premiere at the Centre of Canadian Opera Company’s 2026-2027 Season

By Newswire on 18 February 2026 Classical Music, Newswire, Opera, Toronto

Toronto – The Canadian Opera Company’s newly unveiled 2026/2027 season will feature a bold Canadian world premiere, two new-to-Toronto productions on its mainstage at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, as well as an additional new work from Opera 5, the COC’s Company-in-Residence, to be performed at the Canadian Opera Company Theatre. The season’s full lineup includes: La Traviata, Verdi’s timeless tale of love and heartbreak; Così fan tutte, Mozart’s comic test of fidelity and desire; two new productions: The Turn of the Screw, Britten’s operatic adaptation of the chilling novella, and Richard Strauss’ tragicomedy Ariadne aux Naxos; Donizetti’s ever-charming The Elixir of Love; and the highly anticipated world premiere of Empire of…

Budapest Festival Orchestra performing Mahler 3. Photo: Budapest Festival Orchestra/Róbert Zentai

Review | Budapest Festival Orchestra & Iván Fischer’s Triumphant Mahler 3 in Toronto

By David Fanning on 17 February 2026 Classical Music, Concert Reviews, Orchestral, Toronto, Vocal

Mahler’s longest, most philosophically ambitious, and second most lavishly scored symphony, in a less than full-sized hall, could so easily have proved too much of a good thing. Not a bit of it. Among several special—if not unique—features, the Budapest Festival Orchestra is known for its quality of listening: listening to each other and listening to the music. Accordingly, under Iván Fischer’s economical, yet never less than whole-hearted direction, they never pushed sonic thrills across the physical pain barrier or into mere vulgarity. Textures were transparent, the balance against orchestral and vocal solos optimally discreet. The notion that Mahler expanded…

Jonathan Woody with Tafelmusik. Photo: Dahlia Katz

Newswire | Tafelmusik Unveils its 2026/27 Season

By Newswire on 13 February 2026 Baroque and Early, Classical Music, Newswire, Toronto

Toronto, Ontario (February 11, 2026) —Tafelmusik today announced its 2026/27 concert season, a boldly curated year that balances iconic masterworks with rediscovered voices, interdisciplinary storytelling, and vibrant new perspectives, performed on period instruments with the ensemble’s signature energy, precision, and expressive depth. Subscription packages are now available at tafelmusik.org. New this season, Tafelmusik welcomes audiences into a year shaped by joy, reflection, and surprise. Acclaimed British violinist Rachel Podger has extended her tenure as Principal Guest Director for an additional three years, through to the end of its landmark 50th anniversary season. In 2026/27, Podger leads two major programs, Bach’s…

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