From the Stratford Festival to Edmonton’s International Fringe Festival, the summer months are an especially wonderful time for lovers of the stage By Ian Austen Alexander Neef, the general director ...

Two new Canadian operas headline the season, plus a work by Benjamin Britten that has never before been seen on the COC mainstage.

Phillip Addis as Tancredi and Krisztina Szabó as Clorinda in the Canadian Opera Company’s world premiere production of ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’ (with ‘Lamento d’Arianna’ and ‘Il combattimento di Tancredi ...

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TORONTO (Reuters Life!) - German arts administrator and casting director Alexander Neef was named on Wednesday as the new head of the Canadian Opera Company, almost a year after the sudden death of ...

The Canadian Opera Company has released a first look trailer for its upcoming double bill of Bluebeard's Castle and Erwartung, directed by acclaimed Canadian stage director Robert Lepage.

The Toronto French fine dining restaurant is named in memory of owner and restaurateur Yannick Bigourdan's grandmother who played a very important role in his childhood growing up in the south of ...

EXPRESSIVE MODERNISM- the kind in which lethal-looking angular shapes thrust and counterthrust in stark, perspective-whacked compositions -- has been dead and buried innumerable times by the art world ...

Ian Derrer, general director and CEO of the Dallas Opera for the last eight years, will leave Dallas this summer to head the Canadian Opera Company. The preeminent Canadian opera presenter, the ...

The Dallas Opera is preparing to say farewell to Ian Derrer. The Kern Wildenthal General Director and CEO recently announced he will become the General Director of the Canadian Opera Company (COC) in ...