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Following BBC AMERICA's announcement that award-winning original series Orphan Black has been renewed for a fifth and final season, the network announced today Orphan Black will return to San Diego on Friday, July 22 for a final Comic-Con farewell panel with fans

BBC AMERICA announced today the start of production on its highly anticipated new series, DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISITIC DETECTIVE AGENCY.

BBC AMERICA announced today that stage, television and film actor Samuel Barnett (Twelfth Night, The History Boys, Penny Dreadful) has been cast in the title role of the network's new original scripted series DIRK GENTLY

This Sunday, February 7, 2016, Larry Beckwith helms the Canadian Premiere of Salieri's FALSTAFF, leading the recently Juno-nominated Aradia Ensemble, cast and as always Robert Cooper C.M. leads the VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert Chorus.  

Some of Broadway's most prominent players are donating their time to mentor the next generation of industry writers and those writers have been announced!

Toronto, 09 March 2015…VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert completes the 2014-2015 season with LOUISE, Charpentier's masterpiece that explores the modern age at the very dawn of the 20th Century. Following LA VIDA BREVE and STREET SCENE, LOUISE completes the company's survey of operas written from 1900 onwards, dealing with the friction between tradition and a new era.

Toronto, 04 February 2015…VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert completes the 2014-2015 season with LOUISE, Charpentier's masterpiece that explores the modern age at the very dawn of the 20th Century. Following LA VIDA BREVE and STREET SCENE, LOUISE completes the company's survey of operas written from 1900 onwards, dealing with the friction between tradition and a new era.

VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert enters the new year with Kurt Weill's STREET SCENE, an unblinking look at tenement life in New York City circa 1946, based on Elmer Rice's play of the same name, with lyrics by Langston Hughes. This production marks the Canadian Premiere of Weill's landmark American Opera and continues the company's exploration of operatic social comment in the 20th Century, begun so memorably in November with de Falla's LA VIDA BREVE starring Isabel Bayrakdarian.

VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert enters a new decade and to mark this milestone, the company presents a season of operas that explore the modern age from a 20th Century perspective. De Falla's LA VIDA BREVE, Weill's STREET SCENE and Charpentier's LOUISE were all written after 1900 and deal with the conflicts that erupt when tradition and the modern world collide.

The celebration of commemorative anniversaries for three great composers was the theme for VOICEBOX/Opera in Concert's own 40th Anniversary and the season closes with Verdi's STIFFELIO on Sunday, March 23, 2014 with a single performance at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts at 2:30 pm. This inflammatory work from 1850 concerns an adultery in the house of a Protestant minister and was so severely censored by the Italian authorities that Verdi withdrew it in 1856 and it was only intermittently revived – in various forms – in the 20th century. In 1992, scholars were given access to Verdi's autograph score by the Carrara family and the original version was produced at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on 21 October 1993. It is this version that VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert will be presenting.

Jean-Philippe Rameau revolutionized the French operatic tradition and HIPPOLYTE ET ARICIE is his crowning achievement. VOICEBOX/Opera in Concert presents Rameau's final version (1757) of this astounding work on Sunday February 2, 2014 with conductor Kevin Mallon leading the cast, chorus andAradia Ensemble on period instruments. The stellar cast includes Allyson McHardy, Meredith Hall, Colin Ainsworth and Alain Coulombe.

Tonight, November 24, 2013, VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert presents the Canadian Premiere of Benjamin Britten's GLORIANA. The work premiered in London at Covent Garden in 1953 and was written in celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, a monarch now in the 50th year of her reign.

Toronto, 5 November 2013…On Sunday, November 24, 2013, VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert presents the Canadian Premiere of Benjamin Britten's GLORIANA. The work premiered in London at Covent Garden in 1953 and was written in celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, a monarch now in the 50th year of her reign. “We are very excited about this performance” said General Director Guillermo Silva-Marin. “It is rare that we have the opportunity to present the Canadian premiere of a major work by a legendary composer from our own era to our public. I'm sure Toronto's opera lovers will be curious and thrilled by this magnificent work.”

VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert Presents THE STRESSED-OUT IMPRESARIO: Singers vie for pre-eminence and the audience gets to cast a vote! Today, October 6, 2013, 2:30 p.m at St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Jane Mallett Theatre

VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert Presents THE STRESSED-OUT IMPRESARIO: Singers vie for pre-eminence and the audience gets to cast a vote! Sunday October 6, 2013, 2:30 p.m at St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Jane Mallett Theatre.

On Sunday, October 6, 2013 VOICEBOX:Opera in Concert's 2013-2014 Season gets off to a light-hearted start with THE STRESSED OUT IMPRESARIO, a spoof on the antics of dueling divas – and divos! – based on Mozart's comedy of 1786, Der Schauspieldirektor. “Conceived as an appetizer for our whole season, I wanted to showcase a number of emerging talents,” said General Director Guillermo Silva-Marin, “and what better frame could there be than Mozart's delicious send up of aspiring singers and their egos?”

Commemorative anniversaries for three great composers from three different musical eras will be celebrated this year and VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert's own 40th Anniversary Season highlights the brilliance of this operatic legacy. “Rameau, Verdi and Britten were unequalled in their ability to combine insights into the human condition with music of power and originality and our operas for this season showcase their genius,” says General Director Guillermo Silva-Marin.

Happy Birthday, Syfy! On Monday, December 10 at 9PM (ET/PT), the Channel will celebrate two decades of award-winning, imaginative entertainment programming during the star-studded Syfy 20th Anniversary Special.