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Rhiannon Giddens at Koerner Hall (Review): Old-Time Revue
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Rhiannon Giddens at Koerner Hall (Review): Old-Time Revue

May 17, 2025 Steve Lantier

Rhiannon Giddens is not quite a household name, though it’s likely you’ve encountered her before. Opera fans know her as […]

COC Spring Features An Expressionist Showcase, a Tchaikovsky Masterpiece, and a One-Act Marvel
Arts

COC Spring Features An Expressionist Showcase, a Tchaikovsky Masterpiece, and a One-Act Marvel

April 29, 2025 Steve Lantier

The Canadian Opera Company’s (COC) spring season is upon us, ushering in some brighter, better weather and an impressively diverse […]

Acis and Galatea (Opera Atelier) Review: A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes
Arts

Acis and Galatea (Opera Atelier) Review: A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes

October 31, 2024 Steve Lantier

Opera Atelier – which will be celebrating forty years of performance next year – has quietly earned itself a place […]

Charlotte Siegel
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“A Day in the Life” with Toronto Opera Singer Charlotte Siegel

May 15, 2024 Emilea Semancik

It’s deeply challenging for me to capture Charlotte Siegel in a short profile. I suppose a good start would be […]

COC's "Don Pasquale" is a Good-Natured Romp (Opera Review)
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COC’s “Don Pasquale” is a Good-Natured Romp (Opera Review)

May 11, 2024 Steve Lantier

Gaetano Donizetti’s comic masterpiece Don Pasquale has been delighting audiences since its premiere at the Théâtre-Italien Paris in 1843, its […]

Cunning Little Vixen and Don Giovanni bring callous men and strange animals to the COC
Arts

Cunning Little Vixen and Don Giovanni bring callous men and strange animals to the COC

February 12, 2024 Steve Lantier

The Canadian Opera Company’s February offerings could not be more different. Leoš Janáček’s Cunning Little Vixen is a proto-modernist rumination […]

Treemonisha: Operatic Black Excellence
Music

Treemonisha: Operatic Black Excellence

June 14, 2023 Michelle Ormsby

Treemonisha is a timeless classical Black opera being re-imagined for this year’s Luminato Festival Toronto. This performance sees Canadian soprano […]

Tosca
Arts

Tosca (COC Opera Review): And the Stars Shone…

May 8, 2023 Steve Lantier

The greatest Italian composer since Verdi, Giacomo Puccini was one of the first operatic superstars of the twentieth century, producing […]

COC
Music

COC Ensemble Competition (2022) Gives Young Canadian Talent a Shot at Opera Stardom

November 14, 2022 Steve Lantier

Reconvening after a quieter, virtual audition process in the past couple years, the Canadian Opera Company’s Ensemble Competition 2022 served […]

The Flying Dutchman (COC Opera Review): Ghost of a Chance
Arts

The Flying Dutchman (COC Opera Review): Black Beard, Pale Ghost

October 17, 2022 Steve Lantier

It may not entirely look the part, but Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman (1843) is very much a ghost story. […]

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