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The article focuses on the Canada Ruby Awards, honoring outstanding achievements in Canadian opera, set to be celebrated on November 18, 2024. It highlights the significant contributions of this year's recipients, including artistic director Michel Beaulac, director Michael Cavanagh, and baritone Brett Polegato. It explores Polegato's reflections on his successful three-decade career, emphasizing the role of luck and strategic career decisions.

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 [...]

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 [...]

The article highlights upcoming opera performances in Canada for 2024, which include Cherubini's "Medea" at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto; Bizet's "Carmen" at Vancouver Opera; and Dove's "The Walk from the Garden" by The Little Opera Company in Winnipeg from March 22-24, 2024.

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 [...]

The article announces appointment of Michael Cavanagh as artistic director at Royal Swedish Opera (RSO).

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 [...]

The article presents views of periodical writers on opera moments. It informs about Irving Guttman's identifcation as "father of opera in Western Canada," and his efforts for professional- quality opera; the Expo 67 fair to celebrate music programs from companies including, Bolshoi Opera; and the SURTITLESTM by Canadian Opera Company.

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 [...]

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'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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The article features Canadian opera singer Tracy Dahl. She attended the Banff School of Fine Arts in Alberta, where she studied music and drama from 1979 to 1983. She portrayed the role of Beauty in the musical adaptation of "Beauty and the Beast," by Robb Patterson at Winnipeg's Prairie Theatre Exchange in Manitoba. Her debut in opera occurred in 1982, when she took the role of Barbarina in "Le nozze di Figaro."

The article reviews an opera "Madama Butterfly" co-produced by Manitoba Opera, directed by Robert Herriot and starring Hironri Omura and Cio-Cio San.

The article reviews the opera "Le nozze di Figaro," directed by Brent Krysa, performed by artists Gordon Bintner and Andriana Chuchman, and presented by opera company Manitoba Opera in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in November 2015.