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Opera in Canada: A conversation
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The discussion in this interview explores ways in which opera in Canada is becoming more accessible and attracting a new audience, particularly a youthful one, as a result of economic conditions that demand small-scale productions in intimate spaces. The members of this developing audience want to be able to appreciate the music and understand the language of the operas they attend. Accessibility depends on the use of the audience's language or surtitles. The interview explores the subject ma...
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Why opera matters: celebrating 150 issues of service to opera in Canada.
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The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada. (Opera Online).
Opera Canada
; The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada--initiated, in part, by the late philanthropist Floyd S. Chalmers--remains the single most important reference book on Canadian music and musicians today. While two print editions have appeared (in 1981 and 1992), the EMC is now also available online in both
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Notebook.(Opera review)
Opera Canada
; ... unapologetically adhere to today Which is not to say we always tell good-news stories. As you'll read in this issue, for example, L'Opera de ... very existence beyond the current season. We can't put a good-news spin on that, just as we couldn't when reporting in the past ...
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Comment (back issues of Opera Canada).
Opera Canada
; LOOKING BACK ON VOL. 1, NO. 1 OF OPERA CANADA--OR OPERA IN CANADA, AS THAT FOUR-PAGE newsletter dated for February-March, 1960, was then named--one can't help but reflect on how the world of opera has turned since then. Some of the names in those pages--Teresa Stratas, Louis Quilico and Irving
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Canadian overtures: how well do companies across the country sound a national note in opera and music theatre?
Opera Canada
; There is a growing hunger for opera in Canada, an appetite manifested increasingly by the younger generation. The standard image of opera as the preserve of an elitist older audience is gradually beginning to erode. Greater accessibility helps to demystify opera's supposed remoteness from everyday
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