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Vancouver Opera Announces Donor Initiative in Order to Maintain Company

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Following the Vancouver Opera’s successful 2023-2024 season, the company has revealed that it faces a growing challenge of significantly increased production costs as it heads into its 65th season. The company noted that while it experienced a 33 percent increase in audiences, it was not enough to keep up with the rising costs of producing full-scale operas. However, the company has {…}

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Aline Kutan, Mireille Lebel, Éric Laporte, & Philippe Sly Present ‘A Life In Opera: homage to Joseph Rouleau’

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(Photo credit: OCM) For the last concert of its 84th season, the Orchestre Classique de Montréal pays homage to bass Joseph Rouleau. Soloists Aline Kutan, Mireille Lebel, Éric Laporte, and Philippe Sly perform excerpts from operas by Mozart, Verdi, Bizet, Delibes, Wagner, and Offenbach. Songs by Félix Leclerc are also programmed. They are accompanied by the Orchestre Classique de Montréal, {…}

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Calgary Opera Unveils 2024-25 Season

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Calgary Opera has announced its 2024-25 season. First up is “Don Giovanni.” the opera stars Philip Addis, Aviva Fortunata, Guido Loconsolo, Chuan Wang, Midori Marsh, and Neil Craighead. Anna Theodsakis directs and Jonathan Brandani conducts. Performance Dates: Nov. 2-9, 2024 Next up is “The Witty Squirrel.” The opera features music by Nino Rotta. Performance Dates: Nov. 29-Dec. 8, 2024 John Fanning, Lucia {…}

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Canadian Opera Company Revives ‘Don Pasquale’ For First Time in 30 Years

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The Canadian Opera Company is set to present Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale” for the first time in 30 years. The opera will be presented between April 26 and May 18, 2024 at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, with an additional one-night-only performance starring current and graduate artists of the COC’s Ensemble Studio on May 14, 2024. The opera {…}

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Vancouver Opera Announces 2024-25 Season

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 The Vancouver Opera has announced its 2024-25 season celebrating its 65th anniversary. In a statement, Tom Wright, Vancouver Opera General Director said, “Through dynamic mainstage productions and grassroots outreach, Vancouver Opera is celebrating all-time operatic triumphs for our 65th anniversary, Since our inaugural 1960 staging of “Carmen,” Vancouver audiences have been treated to world-class talents and dazzling, grand-scale productions. In 2024-2025, {…}

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Orchestre Classique de Montréal to Present ‘Messiah’

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(Credit: Brent Calis) The Orchestre Classique de Montréal has announced two upcoming performances of Händel’s “Messiah” in the crypt of Saint Joseph’s Oratory on Mount Royal. Scheduled for Dec. 13 and 14, 2023, the showcases will be conducted by Jacques Lacombe and stars soprano Sydney Baedke, mezzo-soprano Lauren Segal, tenor Antoine Bélanger and baritone Gregory Dahl. “It is with great pride and enthusiasm that we {…}

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Orchestre Classique de Montréal to Present ‘María de Buenos Aires’

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The Orchestre Classique de Montréal (OCM) presents a semi-staged presentation of the tango “operita” “María de Buenos Aires” by Astor Piazzolla as part of the Vanda Treiser opera series in its 84th season. The performance, set for Nov. 23 at the Pierre-Mercure Hall, will be in Spanish with English and French surtitles, under the direction and baton of Jacques Lacombe, {…}