Composer Chris Thornborrow on COC’s Summer Opera Camps: “When you’re creating opera from scratch, you’re allowing young people to express themselves through art, design, narrative, movement, and music.”
“Our show is light and fun, but at its core, it’s about the power of love and how it can light up your life and fill the world with beauty and hope.” ~ Vanessa Sears on All Shook Up
Soulpepper’s music director Mike Ross says of concert theatre, “You’re going to hear music that you know, as if for the first time, performed by Toronto artists, inside a vital new context.”
In anticipation of her appearance with 5 at the First, Canadian soprano Shannon Mercer chatted with SesayArts about singing in Russian, coffee, and the perils of bad advice.
“In If/Then, the writers were genuinely trying to deal with tough questions, like how to balance home and work, but while they ask interesting questions, their answers are concerning.” ~ Natalie Dewan
Karine Boucher performs as Micaëla in the COC’s current production of Georges Bizet’s Carmen: “It is all about human emotion. Love, confusion, passion, strength…That is the beauty of Bizet.”
In YPT’s The Wizard of Oz, Alana Hibbert plays Auntie Em in Kansas and the titular Wizard in Oz (yes, that’s right – the wizard behind the curtain is a woman in this production!).
Thomas Goerz on Bizet’s Carmen: “My guess is, once in the theatre, you’ll have a hard time NOT singing along.”
Prior to Friday’s anticipated concert of West Coast Jazz, we chatted with Bandleader and Saxophonist Sarang Kulkarni about all things jazz, the octets’ brand new CD and … cloning. Yes, cloning!
Opera-keen youth can take heart: the COC is still accepting Youth Opera Lab applications for Maometto II. But only until April 10.
