If gross revenues were a reflective measure of the health of Canada’s opera business, we might be optimistic from Opera Canada’s fifth annual ranking of our top 40 performing companies that the sector has weathered the COVID disruptions reasonably we

OPÉRA DE QUÉBEC / JEUNESSES MUSICALES CANADA ORPHEUSPDX (PORTLAND, OREGON) HIGHLANDS OPERA STUDIO (HALIBURTON, ONTARIO) CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY For full reviews of these productions and other performances from Canadian companies and Canadian artists p

LC: You just retired as CEO of the Saskatchewan Arts Board (SK Arts). What was your day-to-day as CEO? Zooming out: What was your mission? MJ: I’ll start with the bigger picture. Public arts funding in Canada, including Saskatchewan, began after Worl

Wayne died too soon after a career devoted to journalism, particularly about his great love of opera. Wayne leaves his partner of 40 years, Peter Lam, who looked after him so devotedly in the past year as Wayne was in and out of hospital, fighting th

My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back,” Métis political leader and founding father of Manitoba Louis Riel once stated prophetically. Those prescient words rang true las

LISETTE OROPESA HAS BEEN AT THE BANFF Centre for barely a day when I meet her and her husband in their hotel lobby. “Hi! Sorry we’re late!” she says, half-walking, half-jogging towards me. Not even 36 hours earlier, the superstar soprano had been per

As a child growing up in the American Midwest, Marsh loved performing and being in the spotlight. “I loved singing solos at church, doing morning announcements over the PA, putting on little shows with my cousins, taking piano and singing lessons, yo

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THERE IS A DELIGHTFUL NIP IN THE AIR AS I walk down the cobble stoned streets towards the Rhine River. While I am enjoying the crisp spring weather my focus stays chiefly on my footing as my ankles have yet to become fully accustomed to the cobblesto

Cherubini’s Medea May 3 – 17, 2024 Bizet’s Carmen May 2 – 5, 2024 March 22 – 24, 2024 PHOTOS: HEATHER MILNE/THE LITTLE OPERA COMPANY■

Returning to his roots in Grande Prairie, Alberta combined Matthew Dalen‘s two loves - opera and cocktails These directors are related to the globalized corporate executives whose dress, habits and jargon they enthusiastically ape. The local kind are

THE TAPESTRY OPERA AND NIGHTWOOD THEATRE executive teams dream of commissioning a mural filling the vertical length of their new space at 877 Yonge Street in Toronto’s Rosedale neighbourhood. This wishlist mural would, as Jaime Martino, executive dir

For over 40 years, Esther Gonthier has been a leading figure and a stalwart in the world of Canadian opera. A much-loved and respected figure within the business, known for her infallible skills, her musicianship and her professionalism, she remains

LC: How has Peter Simon’s mentorship and transition work shaped your understanding of succession planning at the Royal Conservatory of Music? AB: It has been a luxury. Over the past year, Peter continued the day-to-day decision making. So I could ste

THE MOOD IS FRIENDLY as people line up for drinks, chocolate bars, and classic pub food. The decor is nostalgic and cosy, and you have a choice of tables right up against the stage, further back on the floor, or up on the raised platform where the ba

In 2022, two Montreal universities highly regarded for their music programs announced the creation of a Piano-Vocal Arts Residency designed for outstanding pianists who wish to specialize in collaborating and working with singers. McGill’s Schulich S