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Toronto – The acclaimed Canadian Opera Company Orchestra is hitting the road September 7, 2024 with Musical Flights, a casual concert experience at The Drill Hall at Base31 in Picton, Ontario.

Led by COC Music Director Johannes Debus and featuring artists and alumni of the company’s Ensemble Studio, Musical Flights offers a tasting menu of some of opera’s most well-known arias alongside popular songs from musical theatre, all set in scenic Prince Edward County. 

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World premiere presentation will include a free, livestreamed broadcast on June 15

Toronto – Nova Scotian contralto Portia White was the first Black Canadian concert performer to achieve international fame in the mid-20th century and was hailed as the best classical voice of her generation. Yet, despite her accomplishments, her story has been largely erased from Canadians’ collective memory. Aportia Chryptych: A Black Opera for Portia White is a bold, new Black opera from Canadian director and librettist HAUI and Toronto and New York-based composer Sean Mayes that sets out to reclaim Portia White’s story. Read more

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Toronto–When Luigi Cherubini’s Medea opens at the Canadian Opera Company this May, Toronto audiences will have the opportunity to witness a globally acclaimed cast take on one of opera’s most rarely performed works in a thrillingly evocative production from multi-award-winning director Sir David McVicar. Never before performed on the COC stage, the opera stars some of the world’s most sought-after artists, including Sondra Radvanovsky, Matthew Polenzani, and Janai Brugger, in a blistering vengeance tale that sees a scorned sorceress return to viciously destroy all who have wronged her. Medea runs for six performances on May 3, 5, 9, 11, 15, and 17, 2024 at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. 

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