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Your Brain on Music: Montreal Neurological Institute The Neuro, as it is commonly called, is hosting Your Brain on Music as part of their Amazing…
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Metropolitan Opera Guild Ceases Operations; Opera News joins Opera Magazine
The Metropolitan Opera Guild has announced that it plans to scale back its operations fairly significantly this year, following an extended period of economic challenges.…
Highlands Opera Studio: Finding New Ears in Haliburton, Ont.
For the last 17 summers, Canada’s promising opera singers have flocked to Haliburton, Ont., to participate in the Highlands Opera Studio (HOS) which, this year,…
Haydn’s Orfeo
This May, a contraband opera will take centre stage in Toronto for its North American première. Composed in 1791, the original production of Joseph Haydn’s…
CMIM 2022: a Very Human Adventure
While its 2021 piano edition, won by South Korean Su Yeon Kim, certainly prevailed during the pandemic, it was only able to do so…
[Concert review] Verdi’s Don Carlos at the Met: Canadians are stellar in a magnificent performance
At long last many COVID restrictions have been removed almost entirely across Canada, yet opera lovers are apparently not quite ready to flock back to…
Russian mezzo Victoria Karkacheva and Peruvian tenor Ivan Ayon-Rivas Win Operalia 2021
We are proud to announce the Winners of Operalia 2021 right on time to celebrate the 2021 World Opera Day! First Prize Victoria Karkacheva, mezzo-soprano,…
As One is a surprisingly subtle success
As One might not be the only opera written for two vocal manifestations of the same character, but there cannot be many others. The risk involved…
OCM presents Quebec premiere of « As one » during Transgender Awareness Week
Montreal, Tuesday, August 4, 2020 – Having not slowed down in the slightest since the beginning of the pandemic, the OCM moves forward and continues…
Wallis Giunta: Singing Outside the Box
Wallis Giunta is the real deal. The Irish-Canadian mezzo-soprano combines a flexible and precise coloratura with a captivating stage presence. Hers is a transcendental talent.…
