Our Toronto: A Competition at the Canadian Opera Company | CBC Toronto
This week, some impressive singers took to the stage at the Canadian Opera Company. But it wasn't a regular performance - it was a competition - with pretty high stakes.Here's Debbie Lightle Quan with that story. Subscribe:
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Our Toronto: A Competition at the Canadian Opera Company | CBC Toronto
Canadian Opera Company altering some of Turandot’s Asian characters
When a beloved opera came to Canada from Europe, the Canadian Opera Company made changes to some Asian characters it believed would modernize the production, but opinions are divided.
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Trailer | Puccini's TURANDOT
One of opera's biggest blockbusters is reimagined by legendary director and multidisciplinary artist Robert Wilson. Featuring “Nessun dorma,” the show-stopping anthem made famous by Luciano Pavarotti at the 1990 FIFA World Cup.
Puccini's TURANDOT
September 28 to October 27, 2019
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto
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Alexandru Sura with Canadian Opera Company Toronto Canada 2018
Alexandru Sura with Canadian Opera Company Toronto Canada 2018
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How to build an opera singer | Canadian Opera Company | TEDxToronto
On October 27, 2016, some of Toronto’s greatest thinkers and change-makers joined together onstage at TEDxToronto to deliver powerful talks and performances that embodied our theme, Symbols + Signals.
To learn more visit: tedxtoronto.com.
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Based in Toronto, the Canadian Opera Company is the largest producer of opera in Canada and one of the largest in North America. The COC Ensemble Studio is Canada’s premier training program for young opera professionals. The members of the Ensemble Studio are the COC’s resident artists and important ambassadors for the company.
For TEDxToronto 2016, Liz Upchurch, Jennifer Swan, and Wendy Nielsen coach singers Danika Lorèn and Iain MacNeil.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at
Atom Egoyan on Canadian Opera Company Toronto Salome
Atom Egoyan directs the COC 2013 production of Oscar Wilde's Salome at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. Here Atom talks to Stephen Weir about what makes this production special including projections and shadow dance that were inspired by a Feist concert. He talks about the performance of the Dance of the Seven Veils..Atom says its like Jesus Christ Superstar - we know how it ends. Interviewer Stephen Weir. Camera Assistant Hilde VanVeen. Thanks to CoC.
Canadian Opera Company - Hearing Riel
Canadian Opera Company, the University of Toronto Faculty of Music, the Humanities Initiative of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Innis College
Hearing Riel: A day-long symposium.
COC at Toronto Pride 2019
On Sunday, June 23, staff, artists and friends of the COC were out in full force at Toronto’s annual Pride celebrations. And a few days earlier, a little rain couldn’t stop Ensemble Studio grads Lauren Eberwein and Stéphane Mayer from wowing the crowd at Green Space Festival’s Pride Weekend kick-off concert, Starry Night. Check out all the highlights.
Canadian Opera Company
Interior of Canadian Opera Company Theater. Intermission of La Boheme
The COC's Tosca, starring Adrianne Pieczonka
The Canadian Opera Company presents Tosca, starring the phenomenal Adrianne Pieczonka. Adrianne discusses how the character of Tosca differs from the other roles she's known for.
Tosca runs at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Jan. 21 to Feb. 25.
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All photos and videos from the COC's 2008 production of Tosca.
Canadian Opera Company Projection Concept
Meant as a concept to be projected onto the Canada Opera Company building in Toronto. The piece is critiquing the arts need to milk money from corporate sponsors like smashing a head against a brick to get sustenance.
Scenes from Tosca
Watch selected scenes from our 2017 production of Puccini's Tosca.
Canadian Opera Company 2015/2016 Season Trailer
The Canadian Opera Company's 2015/2016 season featured new productions of La Traviata, The Marriage of Figaro, and Maometto II; the world premiere of a Canadian opera, Pyramus and Thisbe; and the return of beloved favourites Siegfried and Carmen.
Semele at the Canadian Opera Company
Acclaimed visual artist Zhang Huan blends a baroque aesthetic with the splendour of China using an actual 450-year-old Ming Dynasty temple as his canvas. May 9 to 26 at the Four Seasons Centre, 2012.
Conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini, director and set designer Zhang Huan, costume designer Han Feng, and original lighting designer Wolfgang Göbbel.
Music for this video taken from the Deutsche Grammophon recording of Semele, 4357822. English Chamber Orchestra and Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John Nelson, conductor. Kathleen Battle, Marilyn Horne, Samuel Ramey and John Aler.
General Director of Canadian Opera Company Lauds Shen Yun’s Presentation of Tradition
Shen Yun graced the stage of the Four Seasons Centre in Toronto Canada on Jan. 3. Canadian Opera Company Director Alexander Neef thought it was just delightful.
“They’re very, very accomplished. This is a wonderful learning experience, and I enjoyed it a lot. I think it’s extremely well done.”
Taking a class on a culture is one thing, but taking in a performance which has the very purpose of sharing the essence of its culture is quite another.
“I think we’re never quite aware of how old the [Chinese] culture is—5,000 years. My business is opera. Opera is 400 years old. So it’s truly unbelievable. I think tradition is a good thing, something to build on. I think that’s a very, very important takeaway.”
Shen Yun’s dances tell stories, beginning with legends and leading up to the present day. Accompanying the Shen Yun dancers is a Western orchestra that incorporates several traditional Chinese instruments.
“[On the sound and music of Shen Yun,] I believe this is one of the very, very best acoustical theatres in the world. I think sound is very important because it really reaches the audience and it creates a strong emotion that’s conveyed by the performance. The natural acoustics that we have here do that like almost no other opera house in the world. It’s wonderful to have Shen Yun in the building and really help us elevate the level of what has performed here. So I would always recommend this relationship.”
NTD News, Toronto, Canada
Looking Back at the 2018/2019 Season
This past season, our repertoire spanned an amazing 228 years and featured works from Canadian, Russian, German, and Italian composers, including the world premiere of Rufus Wainwright & Daniel MacIvor's HADRIAN.
In this video, relive some of this season's best moments, both on and off the stage.
None of it would have been possible without you, our passionate community of music lovers. With your support, we can continue to present a rich variety of opera, played by musicians of the highest calibre.
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Additional Hadrian production credit:
CGI Effects by Peter O'Neill
Canadian Opera Company : Libiamo from La Traviata - Toronto 2014
Mauro Bertoli - Concerto - Canadian Opera Company Toronto
Il Pianista Mauro Bertoli, il 9 maggio 2013, si e' esibito alla Piano virtuoso series della Canadian Opera Company di Toronto.
Mauro Bertoli ha presentato un'interessante programma di musica di compositori romantici, tra cui brani di Brahms , Schumann, Granados e Liszt.
Mauro Bertoli, pianista, nato a Brescia, Italia, e residente in Ottawa, Canada, si è affermato nel panorama musicale internazionale ed è stato elogiato dalla stampa per la sua formidabile tecnica e la sua eccezionale sensibilità. Attualmente è professore associato alla Carleton University in Ottawa.
Il Concerto E' stato patrocinato dall'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Toronto
Mauro Bertoli ha vinto il premio Giuseppe Sinopoli Award, un prestigioso premio italiano, consegnato personalmente dal Presidente della Repubblica Italiana, Giorgio Napolitano.
Video by Enzo Di Mauro - Toronto dimauro.enzo@gmail.com
Cosi Fan Tutte, Atom Egoyan, Canadian Opera Company
Atom Egoyan talks about unique aspects of directing the Mozart Opera for the COC in Toronto. Recorded at the final dress rehearsal at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts