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Kelly Kaduce as Cio-Cio San
From the COC's October 2014 Production of
Madama Butterfly

Photo by Michael Cooper

 

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Reviews From The 2014 - 2015 Season

 

 

 

Tuesday October 14, 2014

Performance Review of 'Falstaff' added …

The focal point of this production comes together around three singers, Robert Carsen's Directing and Verdi's magically playful score …

… Read the Review

Sunday October 12, 2014

Performance Review of 'Madama Butterfly' Featuring The Second Cast added …

Kelly Kaduce was stellar in the part of the tragic 'Cio-Cio San'. That was especially true of the second act, which she literally owned …

… Read the Review

 

 

 

Press Releases

 

 

 

Thursday January 15, 2015

Press Release: Canadian Opera Company to Present World Premiere of 'Pyramus and Thisbe' by Canadian Composer Barbara Monk Feldman in 2015-2016 Season

Toronto – Alexander Neef, General Director of the Canadian Opera Company, announced today that the COC will be presenting the world premiere of Pyramus and Thisbe by Canadian composer Barbara Monk Feldman.

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Thursday January 15, 2015

Press Release: Canadian Opera Company Announces Commission of New Opera by Composer Ana Sokolović and Playwright Michel Marc Bouchard

Toronto – Alexander Neef, General Director of the Canadian Opera Company, announced today the commission of a new opera for its mainstage by one of Canada’s most important composers …

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Thursday January 15, 2015

Press Release:World Premiere of 21st Century Canadian Opera One of Many Firsts in COC's 2015-2016 Season

Toronto – The world premiere of a new Canadian work was one of the many operatic highlights revealed today at the public launch of the Canadian Opera Company’s 2015/2016 season at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts.

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Thursday January 15, 2015

Press Release: Three Rising Opera Stars to Join the Canadian Opera Company's 2015-2016 Season

Tenors Charles Sy and Aaron Sheppard were among the seven finalists featured in the fourth annual Ensemble Studio Competition in November 2014.

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Tuesday January 6, 2015

Press Release: The COC adds Five Players to the Orchestra Academy

Toronto – The Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Academy returns for a second year on January 12, 2015, this time welcoming five student musicians into its acclaimed COC Orchestra for an intense three-week period that offers them professional insight and experience in their pursuit of a career in an opera orchestra.

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Monday December 15, 2014

Press Release for the COC's January-February 2015 Production of 'Die Walküre' featuring Christina Goerke

Toronto – Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre is opera at its most epic with incredible vocal demands, a 110-piece orchestra and a story about gods and mortals, all played out to one of opera’s most powerful and iconic scores.

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Monday December 15, 2014

Press Release for the COC's January-February 2015 Production of 'Don Giovanni'

Toronto – The Canadian Opera Company’s 2014/2015 winter season opens with a game-changing new production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Internationally acclaimed Russian director Dmitri Tcherniakov defies convention with this dark and witty masterpiece inspired by literature’s most famous womanizer, Don Juan.

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Thursday November 27, 2014

Tenor Charles Sly Wins Audience Approval Award at the COC's Ensemble Studio Competition

Toronto – Tenor Charles Sy of Toronto took home first prize and the Audience Choice Award at the Canadian Opera Company’s Ensemble Studio Competition on November 25, 2014.

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Tuesday November 11, 2014

Seven Canadian Singers Take Centre Stage In COC Vocal Showcase Competition

Toronto – Out of a pool of 175 aspiring opera singers from across the country, the Canadian Opera Company has selected seven to compete at Centre Stage: Ensemble Studio Competition Gala on November 25, 2014 at Toronto’s Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts.

 

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Thursday October 30, 2014

COC Makes Return Visit to the Prestigious Brooklyn Academy of Music This Spring with Semele

Toronto – The Canadian Opera Company is proud to be invited to present the U.S. premiere of Zhang Huan’s theatrically transcendent production of Handel’s Semele at the world-renowned Brooklyn Academy of Music in March 2015. The COC’s presentation of Semele at BAM is directed by Zhang with distinguished British conductor and Baroque opera expert Christopher Moulds leading the critically acclaimed COC Orchestra and COC Chorus. Semele is scheduled at the Howard Gilman Opera House (30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn, NY) for four performances only – March 4, 6, 8 and 10, 2015.

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Tuesday October 28, 2014

Press Release for an Overview of the COC's 2013 - 2014 Season: Artistic Highlights, Attendance and Fundraising Growth

Toronto – Today at the Canadian Opera Company’s Annual General Meeting, the company reported on its artistic highlights, impressive endowment growth, growing attendance and subscription figures, and a general financial overview of the 2013/2014 season .

On a personal note, one thing that's hardly ever mentioned when assessing the cost of the arts is how much benefit businesses benefit from their presence. Money is spent in the places that are around them when people attend a performance. That wouldn't be happening if they were sitting at home.

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Saturday August 30, 2014

Press Release for The Coc's 2014 - 2015 Season Opener, 'Falstaff'

Toronto – The Canadian Opera Company's 2014/2015 season opens with an opera hailed as the crowning achievement of Verdi’s career, Falstaff …

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Saturday August 30, 2014

Press Release for the COC's October 2014 Production of 'Madama Butterfly'

Toronto – The Canadian Opera Company's beloved production of Puccini's heartbreaking masterpiece of love, longing and loss, Madama Butterfly, comes to the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts this October …

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Introducing the COC's 2014 - 2015 Season

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Falstaff

Madama Butterfly

Don Giovanni

Die Walküre

The Barber of Seville

Bluebeard's Castle/
Erwartung

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read Articles and Reviews about the Canadian Opera Company's 2013 -2014 Season

 

 

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