We’ve all been there. You’re at the dinner table, the topic of your opera obsession comes up, and it's met with any combination of the following:

“I just don’t get it…”
“I find opera boring...”
“It’s too expensive...”
“It’s just not for me...”

Well, before you lose your chill, we've developed a highly rigorous, scientifically tested collection of snappy comebacks to make the most adamant non-opera human wonder if perhaps it’s time to give our favourite art form a test drive.

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The Canadian Opera Company Academy, a pioneering development program to foster young opera artists, creators and administrators, is piloting a new artistic development opportunity in 2019: the Composer-in-Residence program, for which Canadian composer Ian Cusson has been selected as the inaugural artist. Cusson begins his residency with the COC on August 19, 2019.[READ MORE]