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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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Toronto – The Canadian Opera Company ushers in spring with a feel-good comedy that hasn’t been seen on the COC stage in 30 years: Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti. This colourful adaptation from acclaimed French-Canadian creative duo Barbe & Doucet transposes the opera’s storyline to 1960s Rome, where the eccentric owner of a crumbling hotel is wreaking hilarious havoc on his nephew’s love life, together with a rag-tag group of staff that includes a chain-smoking chambermaid, a greasy cook, and a positively prehistoric porter. 

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