Tapestry Opera announces its Free Underground Concerts will return for a second season. Launched in 2025, to celebrate the opening of Toronto’s newest venue, the Nancy & Ed Jackman Performance Centre, the series offers a diverse range of high-calibre musical performances, all completely free. This series features a variety of musicians and performers in an accessible and intimate setting. All {…}
Here are the details of Tapestry Opera’s 2026-27 season. David T. Little and Royce Vavrek’s “Dog Days” makes its Canadian premiere in a co-production with Against the Grain Theatre. Performance Dates: Nov. 8–29, 2026 “Raising the Baton,” a Benefit Concert for Women in Musical Leadership at Koerner Hall is held. Performance Date: Feb. 9, 2027 Afarin Mansouri and Donna-Michelle St. {…}
(Photo: Michael Cooper) The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts has announced nominations for the 46th Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards. Canadian Opera Company’s productions of “Orfeo ed Euridice” and “Rigoletto,” each received nods in Outstanding Production, Outstanding Performance by an Individual, Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble, and Outstanding Achievement in Design. Tapestry Opera’s “LOL: Laughing Out Lonely” earned nominations {…}
(Photo credit: Alan Cabral) Tapestry Opera and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra join forces to present a masterclass dedicated to the next generation of women and non-binary conductors and music directors in Canada. Participants include Women in Musical Leadership (WML) fellows Monica Chen, Eve Legault, and Serena Reuten (associate). The conductors will work with Maestro Gustavo Gimeno in a masterclass to {…}
Tapestry Opera will present the Canadian premiere of “10 Days in a Madhouse” at the Bluma Appel Theatre next June. The opera, written by composer Rene Orth and playwright Hannah Moscovitch, is an adaptation of Nellie Bly’s 1887 undercover investigation into the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island. It was originally commissioned by Tapestry Opera and Opera Philadelphia and in {…}
Tapestry Opera launches its inaugural Free Underground Concerts series. This article only features vocal concerts. Danika Lorèn and Gentle Freak preview the OpenStudio and MainStage’s “Slaying My Demon Lover.” Performance Date: November 24, 2025 Silver Thread present a choral concert titled “Seeds In Flight.” Performance Date: December 8, 2025 Read Related Stories Tapestry Opera Announces 2025-26 Season Tapestry Opera Announces {…}
Tapestry Opera has announced its 2025-26 season. The season opens with “Tapestry Briefs: Under Where?” The showcase will feature 10 opera shorts by such composers as Rebecca Gray, Saman Shahi, Rodyon Tse, Keith Klassen, and Prokhor Protasoff. Performance Dates: Oct. 16-19, 2025 Next up is “LOL: Laughing Out Lonely,” a solo opera by Danish company OPE-N. The work by Matile Böcher {…}
The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) announced all nominations for the 45th Anniversary Dora Mavor Moore Awards presented by the Romano D’Andrea Foundation. This year there were 225 nominations across 43 gender-inclusive award categories within seven divisions reflecting the remarkable artistry of the 2024-25 season. This year’s nominations encompass 81 shows from 59 registered companies. The Awards will {…}
Tapestry Opera has announced new artist residencies with Cultureland and OperaQ at the Nancy & Ed Jackman Performance Center. Cultureland is an opera collective with the mission of making opera more accessible and offers new operatic productions with a primary focus on Middle Eastern culture and companies. Meanwhile OperaQ is an indepedent opera company that amplifies queer and trans voices {…}
Tapestry Opera has unveiled its 2024-25 season. “We are thrilled to unveil our 2024-25 season as we celebrate 45 years of Tapestry Opera with an exciting and dynamic array of productions welcoming performing-arts-loving audiences to our newly built downtown home. It’s a remarkable moment for Tapestry and Toronto to add a vital new venue to the independent performing arts scene,” {…}
Michael Hidetoshi Mori, General Director, and Jaime Martino, Executive Director of Tapestry Opera will attend an event at Ramsden Park in response to receiving the provincial government’s Ontario Trillium Foundation grant for $150,000. The grant enabled Tapestry Opera and its partners, Nightwood Theatre and St. Clare’s Multifaith Social Housing to build Toronto’s most affordable, accessible and well-equipped theatre of its {…}