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Tarragon Theatre Reveals 2024/25 Season Lineup


by Stephi Wild - April 18, 2024

Artistic Director Mike Payette and Managing Director Andrea Vagianos have announced Tarragon Theatre's 2024/25 season. Learn more about the lineup here!...

Video: Soprano Janai Brugger on Cherubini's MEDEA at Canadian Opera Company


by Joshua Wright - April 17, 2024

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!'...

Video: Creative Team Talks APORTIA CHRYPTYCH: A BLACK OPERA FOR PORTIA WHITE at the Canadian Opera Company


by Joshua Wright - April 12, 2024

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. APORTIA CHRYPTYCH: A BLACK OPERA FOR PORTIA WHITE at the Canadian Opera Company....

APORTIA CHRYPTCH: A Black Opera for Portia White to be Presented at Canadian Opera Company Theatre


by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 10, 2024

The world premiere of Aportia Chryptych: A Black Opera for Portia White will be presented at the Canadian Opera Company Theatre in June. Learn more about the performances and see how to purchase tickets....

MEDEA To Be Presented In Its First-Ever Appearance At The Canadian Opera Company


by A.A. Cristi - March 12, 2024

Experience the thrilling first-ever performance of MEDEA at the Canadian Opera Company. This captivating production promises to set the stage ablaze, offering a unique spectacle for opera enthusiasts....

Canadian Opera Company to Present DON PASQUALE This Spring


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 07, 2024

The Canadian Opera Company will usher in spring with a feel-good comedy that hasn't been seen on the COC stage in 30 years: Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti. Learn more about the opera and see how to purchase tickets....

Video: Johannes Debus on Conducting at Canadian Opera Company


by Joshua Wright - March 06, 2024

Watch as Canadian Opera Company Music Director Johannes Debus explores the nature of conducting, the 'breathing animal that an orchestra is,' and his role in bringing music to life with the incredible artists of the COC Orchestra....

Five New Productions Announced For Canadian Opera Company's 2024/2025 Season


by Joshua Wright - February 22, 2024

The Canadian Opera Company announced its 2024/2025 season with exciting programming comprised almost entirely of new-to-Toronto productions including the first-ever COC staging of Verdi’s Nabucco, the world premiere of a new production of Gounod’s Faust, and the Toronto premiere ...

Video: 3 Things to Know about THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN at Canadian Opera Company


by Joshua Wright - February 15, 2024

Soprano Jane Archibald, who playes Vixen, shares '3 Things To Know' about the unforgettable production of Janáček's THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN. ...

Video: Get A First Look at Mozart's DON GIOVANNI at the Canadian Opera Company


by Joshua Wright - February 02, 2024

Enjoy a first look at the 'mind-bending' new production of Mozart’s DON GIOVANNI, on now at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts!​​​​​​​...

Past Shows

Fine Wine Auction
4/19 - 4/23/2021


For the first time ever, the Canadian Opera Company's Fine Wine Auction will take place entirely online, in partnership with Iron Gate Auctions. From APRIL ...


COC Orchestra Principal Horn player Scott Wevers performs a solo rendition of "Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante," Micaëla's pining aria from Bizet's renowned audience ...


COC Orchestra flautist Shelley Brown demonstrates the atmospheric textures the piccolo brings to the score....


COC Orchestra Principal Clarinetist Dominic Desautels performs the opening clarinet melody from "E lucevan le stelle," the famous romantic aria from the final, tragic act ...


COC Concertmaster Marie Bérard demonstrates her favourite violin solo from Act III of Verdi's tragic love story, La Traviata....

THE NIGHTINGALE AND OTHER SHORT FABLES


Hailed as a masterpiece at its sold-out world premiere in Toronto and a subsequent tour to New York, the COC is thrilled to revive Robert ...

Semele
Semele
5/9 - 5/26/2012


Love affairs between gods and mortals seldom end well, as our heroine discovers. Semele, a princess and mistress of the god Jupiter, wishes for her ...

A Florentine Tragedy/ Gianni Schicchi


In A Florentine Tragedy, based on Oscar Wilde’s play, a merchant discovers his wife is having an affair with the Prince of Florence. A cat ...

The Tales of Hoffman
The Tales of Hoffman
4/10 - 5/14/2012


A drunken poet sits at a bar, recalling his lost loves to his fellow drinkers. But this is no ordinary barfly: Hoffmann is a writer ...

Tosca
Tosca
1/21 - 2/25/2012


One of the best-loved operas of all time, Puccini’s tale of a passionate woman caught in a web of corruption, lust, and betrayal has been ...

Love From Afar
Love From Afar
2/2 - 2/22/2012


The 12th and 21st centuries meld seductively in acclaimed Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s Love from Afar, a haunting and vivid musical creation that has become ...

Rigoletto
Rigoletto
9/29 - 10/22/2011


The Duke lives a dissolute existence, caring little for the lives he destroys in the process. His jester, Rigoletto, knows his employer’s proclivities all too ...

Videos


The Darktown Strutters' Ball in Toronto The Darktown Strutters' Ball
Theatre Orangeville (4/25 - 5/12)

NEW MUSICAL Tracker
The Rear Window in Toronto The Rear Window
Hart House Theatre (5/15 - 5/31) Tracker
A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney in Toronto A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney
Outside the March (4/13 - 5/12) Tracker
Transformations: Bach and Rameau in Toronto Transformations: Bach and Rameau
Jeanne Lamon Hall (5/10 - 5/12)
Elephant and Piggie's We are in a Play! in Toronto Elephant and Piggie's We are in a Play!
Randolph Theatre (6/15 - 7/7)
Four Minutes Twelve Seconds in Toronto Four Minutes Twelve Seconds
Tarragon Theatre (4/20 - 5/12)
Nightwood Theatre's 2024 Lawyer Show: The Sound of Music in Toronto Nightwood Theatre's 2024 Lawyer Show: The Sound of Music
The St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts (6/13 - 6/15)
The Glory of Living: A play by Rebecca Gilman in Toronto The Glory of Living: A play by Rebecca Gilman
The King Black Box (5/16 - 5/31)
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical in Toronto Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
Ed Mirvish Theatre (6/18 - 7/28)
Victorian Closet Drama in Toronto Victorian Closet Drama
Alumnae Theatre Company (5/1 - 5/5)
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