I had been thinking about what I would wear on Thursday September 8th the entire summer. It seems trivial, and really it is, but I couldn’t stop visualizing myself walking through Queens Park with aBarenreiter in hand...
In conversation with Cecilia Livingston By Alex Hetherington January has arrived and that can only mean one thing at UofT Opera – it’s time to prepare for the Student Composers’ Opera! Escape Room is right around the corner and our singers are all busily preparing the music. Due to...
As we near the end of the term and our singers are getting ready for the winter holiday, we thought we would take a minute to reflect on the year so far. We’ve had a busy, wonderful, and unique semester packed with singing, learning, and...
The University of Toronto Opera Department is thrilled to join again with Against the Grain Theatre to offer Canada’s National Opera Intensive. This is the third consecutive year for this exciting collaboration, which has resulted in a comprehensive summer program, designed with the modern emerging...
This year’s Opera Composer Collective has just been announced- congratulations to Paul Kawabe, Evan Tanovich, Prokhor Protasov, and Paul Lessard! These four student composers have now embarked on the journey of writing an entire full-length opera, Escape Room, which will be staged, filmed, and broadcast...
I am always interested in what goes into creating projects that we, the performers, experience quite close to the end of the whole process. Yes, we learn the music, and we are there for staging and music rehearsal, and we see something of what goes...
Since I started writing these posts, I have often found myself thinking, how cool is it that I get to just ask questions that I have secretly had all along? I always find that I am quite curious as to how the professionals that I work with...
Cover photo by: Bo Huang Written by: Saige Carlson As a young singer, I often find myself trying to analyze the career trajectories of other singers with whom I have crossed paths, as though I could write a recipe for success if given enough information. In University,...
Yesterday morning at 7:30am, everyone at University of Toronto Opera arrived at Pearson airport, sleepy and excited, ready to embark on our annual trip to the big apple. Every year, the opera masters and diploma students are lucky enough to participate in a 3 day journey...
We had an early start this morning in sunny New York City, But the weather made it all the more easy. After another stop at our favourite diner, The Flame, for a little breakfast (and by little, I mean HUGE portions of a classic diner...