Review | Love as Spectacle: Robert Carsen’s Così fan tutte at La Scala
The evening begins inside a dazzling television studio. Cameras glide, applause signs flash, and a suave host greets a group of young couples assembled to…
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Newswire | Janáček Brno Festival Receives Two Nominations at International Opera Awards
The international Janáček Brno Festival is celebrating another great success. It has received two nominations for the prestigious International Opera Awards 2025 – in the…
Canadians Abroad: Canadian Artists Busy Beyond Our Borders in 2025-26
Yves Abel, conductor The Franco-Canadian, Toronto-born conductor has been principal conductor at San Diego Opera since 2020 where this season he will lead Leoncovallo’s Pagliacci…
Review | Singing Launches COC Eugene Onegin into Season-Best Status
Canadian director Robert Carsen’s staging of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin was originally created for the Metropolitan Opera in 1997 and has achieved iconic status in the…
COC’s 2025/2026 Season Blends Iconic Operas With Bold New Visions
Toronto – The Canadian Opera Company has announced its 2025/2026 season today featuring bold new productions, blockbuster audience favourites, and landmark works from two of Canada’s leading creative visionaries.…
Review | A Very Canadian Dialogues des carmélites in Valencia
Based on Die Letzte am Schafott (“The Song at the Scaffold”), a novella about the execution by guillotine of sixteen Carmelite nuns from Compiègne in…
Review | Met Live in HD: Verdi Falstaff Staging a Travesty
Verdi’s opera Falstaff is an amazing achievement for a man nearly 80 years old. It is also remarkable for being Verdi’s first comic opera, and…
Canadian Opera Company’s Eugene Onegin Showcases Canadian Talent
The Canadian Opera Company opened its 2018-19 season with a new production of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, originally premiered by the Metropolitan Opera. It…
Robert Carsen, Christine Goerke, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Matthew Polenzani and Frederica von Stade Receive Honors at 12th Annual Opera News Awards
~ Sold-out evening featured surprise appearance by Renée Fleming; presentations by Elīna Garanča, Kiri Te Kanawa and Joseph Volpe ~ New York, NY (April 10,…
