For the love of Opera: Puccini’s La Bohème

These Bohemian bachelors are handsome and available for 12 performances at the COC. Classics are classics for a reason—they are timeless, wonderful little masterpieces that resonates with the people. That b...

For the love of Opera: Peter Grimes

Jakob Janutka as John, Peter Grimes’s apprentice, and Ben Heppner as Peter Grimes in the Canadian Opera Company production of Peter Grimes, 2013. Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten is not a happy or redemptiv...

For the love of Opera: Dialogues des Carmelites

  (l – r) Irina Mishura (back to camera) as Mother Marie and Judith Forst as Madame de Croissy in the Canadian Opera Company’s production of Dialogues des Carmélites, 2013. The last opening nigh...

For the love of Opera: Salome

The visually stimulating Dance of the Seven Veils scene from the Canadian Opera Company’s production of Salome The house was full on a Tuesday night for the third of eight performances of Strauss’s Salome. ...