The latest news on performances of Opera in Toronto.
Soprano Zoe McCormick of Ponoka, Alberta won first prize at the Canadian Opera Company's 13th annual CENTRE STAGE: ENSEMBLE STUDIO COMPETITION, earning a $12,500 award and consideration for a spot in the COC's Ensemble Studio.
Opera Atelier opens its 2026/27 Season of Heroes with Canada’s first fully staged production of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s THE DESCENT OF ORPHEUS, now playing through October 25, 2026 at Koerner Hall in Toronto’s TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning.
Toronto City Opera will present a fully staged production of Puccini's LA BOHÈME reimagined in a contemporary Toronto setting, featuring emerging Canadian professional soloists and directed by Dana Fradkin.
The Canadian Opera Company announced seven emerging opera singers as finalists in the Centre Stage: Ensemble Studio Competition, held at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts.
Tapestry Opera will present its second season of free concerts at the Nancy & Ed Jackman Performance Centre in Toronto, featuring performances by John Kameel Farah, Tamara Podemski, Travis Knights, and other artists.
Baritone Russell Braun previews Verdi's LA TRAVIATA alongside a new trailer for Canadian Opera Company's upcoming staging at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto.
The Canadian Opera Company shared a preview of swords and spears from Wagner's RING CYCLE, part of an upcoming props display marking 20 years of the Four Seasons Centre.
Canadian Opera Company posted a video ahead of its fall LA TRAVIATA staging, asking viewers whether Verdi's tragic heroine Violetta can be read as a proto-feminist character.
Atom Egoyan's production of Mozart's Così fan tutte will return to the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, featuring Lauren Fagan, Martina Myskohlid and Laurence Kilsby.
COC Music Director Johannes Debus looks back on his first time conducting at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in 2008, shared as part of the building's 20th anniversary celebrations.
The Canadian Opera Company will host a one-night-only concert at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto, featuring the COC Orchestra, COC Chorus, and an all-Canadian lineup of soloists performing Beethoven's Symphony No.
Toronto City Opera will present a fully staged production of Offenbach's ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD at Trinity-St.
Tapestry Opera and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra announced a masterclass for emerging women and non-binary conductors, hosted at Roy Thomson Hall with mentor Maestro Gustavo Gimeno and full orchestral forces.
Canadian Opera Company has released rehearsal footage of BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE/ERWARTUNG, a pair of one-act psychological thrillers now playing through May 16, 2026 at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts.
Composer Rene Orth’s award-winning opera 10 Days in a Madhouse will receive its Canadian premiere at the Luminato Festival, co-presented by Tapestry Opera and the Canadian Opera Company.
Composer Rene Orth's award-winning opera 10 Days in a Madhouse will receive its Canadian premiere at the Luminato Festival, co-presented by Tapestry Opera and the Canadian Opera Company.
A new video has been released featuring EMPIRE OF WILD, showcasing the song My Prayer Is Small performed by Ensemble Studio artist Emma Pennell.
Opera Atelier concludes its 2025/26 season with a production that puts the company on the cutting edge of period performance practice internationally, with its premiere of Claude Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, at the TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning at Koerner Hall, from April 15-19,
The Canadian Opera Company has released a first look trailer for its upcoming double bill of Bluebeard's Castle and Erwartung, directed by acclaimed Canadian stage director Robert Lepage.
The Canadian Opera Company has unveiled its 2026/2027 season, featuring a Canadian world premiere, two new-to-Toronto productions on its mainstage at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, and an additional new work from Opera 5, the COC’s Company-in-Residence, to be performed at the Can
Check out video of baritone Luke Sutliff delivering a spirited performance of “Largo al factotum” from Gioachino Rossini’s THE BARBER OF SEVILLE, accompanied by the COC Orchestra under the baton of Daniela Candillari.
The Barber of Seville is an ideal introduction to the opera-going experience.
The Canadian Opera Company will bring Verdi’s RIGOLETTO back to the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts this winter.
10 Days in a Madhouse is a bold contemporary opera from innovative American composer Rene Orth and acclaimed Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch that will make its Canadian premiere in four performances at the Bluma Appel Theatre.
Toronto City Opera will launch its 2025 season with Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, a searing tale of love, jealousy, and betrayal.
The Canadian Opera Company has announced the seven finalists for the 2025 Centre Stage: Ensemble Studio Competition, taking place October 23, 2025, at Toronto’s Four Seasons Centre.
The Canadian Opera Company (COC) has announced that tickets are now on sale for its Centre Stage: Ensemble Studio Competition & Gala, a marquee fundraising event celebrating the country’s most promising emerging opera talent.
The Canadian Opera Company will welcome Opera 5 as its newest Company-in-Residence.
Opera Atelier will present the Toronto premiere of the company's internationally acclaimed production of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's French Baroque masterpiece, David and Jonathan, at Koerner Hall's TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning, from April 9-13, 2025.
The COC’s 2025 production of this masterpiece seamlessly blends performance practice tradition with a contemporary perspective on the story’s timeless themes.
The first-ever co-commission between the Canadian Opera Company and Opéra de Montréal, La Reine-garçon is a stunning new Canadian-led opera from acclaimed composer Julien Bilodeau and award-winning librettist Michel Marc Bouchard that dives into the life of one of history's most fascinating roya
Mezzo-soprano Ariana Maubach of Toronto took home First Prize and the Audience Choice Prize at the Canadian Opera Company’s 11th annual Centre Stage: Ensemble Studio Competition on October 30, 2024 at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts.
The Canadian Opera Company has announced a new partnership with Lucie and The Social & Co.
Opera Atelier’s production of G.
Vocally and musically, the Canadian Opera Company's production of Gounod's Faust directed by Amy Lane was a sumptuous feast for the ears.
This season, Tapestry Opera will celebrate 45 years of producing innovative, powerful opera that reflects and changes the world around us.
Toronto City Opera will unveil its 2024-25 Season, showcasing a diverse array of operatic works and engaging community events.
Watch as Soprano Janai Brugger gives us a taste of Cherubini’s heady score for MADEA, exquisitely brought to life in this excerpt from her Act I aria “O Amore, vieni a me!'
Watch as lead creator, director & librettist HAUI and composer Sean Mayes talk about the exciting world premiere of APORTIA CHRYPTYCH: A BLACK OPERA FOR PORTIA WHITE.
BroadwayWorld Toronto spoke to ALL IS LOVE star Brueggergosman-Lee about her love for the show and the company, the importance of taking risks, and how her upcoming Governor General’s Lifetime Achievement Award is really an encouragement to keep creating.
