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FROM THE CANADIAN HEARTLAND to the northern climes of Scandinavia, Michael Cavanagh has waited a lifetime to helm one of the world's most venerated opera houses. That dream came true [...]

HERE ARE SOME HIGHLIGHTS Manitoba Underground Opera Gow/Remoto The Mansplaining Division May 24-26, 2023 'Alissa Watson's spot-on stage direction allows each character to shine' --HOLLY HARRIS The Metropolitan Opera Mozart [...]

During the past decade, a time of intense political polarization in the United States, criminal justice reform has emerged as an unlikely unifier. Democrats and Republicans have reached across the [...]

Manitoba Opera turned to the humble telephone to mark its auspicious return to live performance this fall, with its double bill and notable company premieres of two one-act operas ringing [...]

Manitoba Opera's La traviata (seen Apr. 14), proved an auspicious showcase for American soprano Angel Blue, making her Canadian debut as its ill-fated heroine, Violetta. Last staged locally in 2008, [...]

Whenever our shell-shocked world eventually moves beyond the novel coronavirus crisis and reflects on the art' created during these transformative times, there will be a reckoning of what, and how [...]

Manitoba Underground Opera dug into the illusive idea of identity in its 9th 'Who are we?' season, exploring themes of love, war, family, friends, and humanity in the face of [...]

Manitoba Opera opened its 47th season on Nov. 23'* with the company premiere of Carlisle Floyd's Susannah, a gripping verismo opera penned during the witch hunts of 1950s McCarthyism that [...]

Little Opera Company joined forces with Flipside Opera for their inaugural co-production, Fright Night, a double-header featuring two spine-tingling chamber works staged by Jacqueline Loewen, and presented on the cusp [...]

Manitoba Opera went for belly laughs, literally, as it opened its 44th season in November with the company debut of Verdi's Falstaff. The Italian master's depiction of the vainglorious knight [...]

Manitoba Opera closed its 18/19 season with Rossini's two-act opera buffa The Barber of Seville staged by Montreal's Alain Gauthier, featuring the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra led with finesse by Tyrone [...]

Manitoba Opera opened its 42nd season in November with an extraordinary production of Beethoven's Fidelio. It is a mystery why this enduring message of hope has never been staged locally [...]

The Little Opera Company presented three sides of the opera coin with its latest production, 'Opera Shorts Cabaret,' featuring a trio of chamber works by Canadian composers John Greer and [...]

Lovelier than a bough of cherry blossoms, Manitoba Opera's Madama Butterfly closed its season in April. Directed by Ann Hodges, the production featured the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra led by Daniel [...]

The economic chill may be colder than a January wind whipping across the Prairies, but there's a warmer note of cautious optimism among the major Prairie opera companies. Manitoba Opera [...]

Manitoba Opera's latest production of Madama Butterfly (seen Nov. 18th) proved that the aching heart as expressed through art knows no racial or cultural divide; Puccini's immortal classic continues to [...]

Lara Ciekiewicz is waxing poetic in the wake of her recent role debut this past fall as Leos Janacek's Jenufa at Pacific Opera Victoria, co-produced with Opera de Montreal and [...]

Manitoba Opera closed its 44th season with the company debut of Massenet's Werther, a lushly scored portrait of an artist as a young man that also showcased a particularly strong [...]

Winnipeg's latest opera company. Flipside Opera, closed its inaugural season with three contemporary chamber opera nuggets inspired by everyday life in Bathtubs, Bus Stops and Bridge. The 90-minute production (including [...]

The Little Opera Company broke with 20 years of tradition by presenting its first musical theatre production, though Kismet arguably straddles both the world of opera and the Great White [...]

WINNIPEG Manitoba Opera's brave and bold choice of Carlisle Floyd's Of Mice and Men closed its 43rd season not with typical grand operatic spectacle, but by peering intimately into the [...]

Manitoba Opera chose for its 2015/16 season-opener last Nov. a happy marriage of exquisite melodies and madcap fun in its latest production of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. Last staged [...]

Like the proverbial phoenix rising from the ashes, Winnipeg's third opera company, Manitoba Underground Opera, surfaced again late August with a pair of operas inspired by magic. For the first [...]

The Little Opera Company has an impressive, 21-year record of showcasing local talent, maintaining that tradition by opening its 2016/17 season with the world premiere of Winnipeg composer Neil Weisensel's [...]

Ever since its 1896 Turin premiere, Puccini's La boheme has stirred hearts and inspired tears with its tragic tale of bohemian artists living and loving in 1840s Paris. In April, [...]

Manitoba Opera saddled up opera fans with its Spaghetti Western version of Donizetti's Don Pasquale, which opened the company's 4Ist season Nov. 23. This tongue-in-cheek version, based on San Diego [...]

Manitoba Opera's ended its 40th season in April with epic spectacle, mystic songs and a particularly strong cast of leads in Verdi's Aida. Directed by Brian Deedrick, the subtly nuanced [...]

Manitoba Opera marks its 40th anniversary this year with an all-Verdi season, opening last November with the darkly tragic Rigoletto. The production was directed by former-Winnipegger Robert Herriot in Lawrence [...]

Manitoba Opera's spit-and-polish production of Donizetti's La fille du regiment not only ended its season with a bang but made opera fans want to enlist immediately with the 21st Regiment. [...]

You'd be hard pressed to come up with a better holiday show than Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, And it will now be difficult to imagine this [...]

Opera has never been an art form to hold anything back, but even within the genre, Salome is a tough, depraved act to follow. Manitoba Opera's daring choice of Richard [...]

In an age when the demise of the TV daytime drama seems imminent, leave it to The Little Opera Company to give one last kick at the soapbox. Billed as [...]

You'd be hard-pressed to find a better opera to close your season than Mozart's ever-popular Die Zauberflote. Manitoba Opera last staged it in 2001, but brought it back this past [...]

Manitoba Opera's Divas and Divos paid tribute to the tireless Manitoba Opera Chorus in October. The 60-voice-strong ensemble, currently directed by Tadeusz Bicrnacki, has served as the company's musical backbone [...]

The Little Opera Company's witty revival of Mozart's The Impresario (Der Schauspieldirektor) proved an ideal way to while away a summer's eve on Aug. 11. The five-member cast performed to [...]

Manitoba Opera closed its 2009/10 season with crowd-pleasing Carmen in April, directed by Winnipegger Rob Herriot, who returned to his Prairie roots after 20 years afield. With the Winnipeg Symphony [...]

Manitoba Opera hunched its 37th season with razor-sharp wit last November with Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia. In his first MO engagement, Seattle's I David Gately, who has helmed 30 [...]

The Little Opera Company (TLOC) chose Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel for its first full-length production in two years, performed in Apr./May for local school audiences. Based on an abridged English [...]

Manitoba Opera's first concert performance of Leonard Bernstein's Candide glittered like a sparkling jewel Feb. 28, with every high-spirited note in place and its witty satire as ripe as ever. [...]

In May, Little Opera Company ventured into Toyland with 7he Velveteen Rabbit by American composer Mary Carol Warwick to a libretto by Kate Pogue (May 11). Commissioned by Houston Grand [...]

According to Newfoundland-born, Toronto-based composer/librettist Dean Burry in The Brothers Grimm, 'You can't beat the classics.' The Little Opera Company's premiere of the family-friendly opera proved the point with its [...]

The Little Opera Company launched its 15th season Oct. 16 with Mozart's Cosi fan tutte in a two-hour adaptation performed in English with spoken dialogue in lieu of recitative. Director [...]

The Little Opera Company with a big heart opened its new season Oct. 24 in the intimate Salle Martial Caron Theatre, featuring a double-bill of Henry Mollicone's The Face on [...]

Manitoba Opera's North American premiere of Jason and Hanna may be billed as a children's opera, but its gritty message of war and hatred is all too grown-up. The one-act [...]