As a teenager in the 1920s, my grandmother Gladys played piano for silent films in the remote New Zealand town of Takaka. She still recalls a film which was shot nearby at Pohara beach. Although Glad has never seen the film, I found out later that it was the underwater spectacular Venus of the South Seas, starring Australian diver Annette Keller...

Acte I, Scène 1
Automne 1915


Dans le parc d'une petite ville du col de Crowsnest, famille et amis célèbrent le mariage de Filumena Costanzo et Charlie Lassandro. Au fil des festivités, Filumena semble distante, déconcertée par la brusquerie de son nouvel époux. Charlie lui a donné un nouveau prénom “ canadien ”, Florence, qu'elle refuse catégoriquement.

Acte I
En 1980, dans les montagnes de Colombie-Britannique, Irène et son fils Jimmy vident le chalet qu'Irène affectionne tant, en prévision de son déménagement en ville pour qu'elle reçoive de meilleurs soins. Jimmy découvre une vieille toupie. Irène lui confie qu'elle a appartenu à Lillian Alling, une femme mystérieuse disparue dans la nature sauvage il y a plus de cinquante ans….

Content warning: blood, gun violence, murder

Pedro Carmona, a young surgeon and son of a prominent Portuguese general, has escaped military service in Angola in 1968 by fleeing to Toronto with his upper-class wife Constanza. In order to survive, he has taken two jobs while he retrains to qualify as a doctor. The opera begins as Constanza—sick...

The Bells of Baddeck follows the great inventor Alexander Graham Bell from his fledging start, through his inspiring teaching, his experiments, and his love for his wife Mabel, to their settling in Baddeck, Nova Scotia. They meet the Scots of Cape Breton Island and fall in love with their music and Gaelic charm!















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Content warning: infant death, suicidal thoughts

In the summer of 2007, CBC investigators Mary Wiens and John Nicol brought an enthralled listening audience the tale of a mummified baby found in the floorboards of an East Toronto home.  Further investigation to uncover the origins of the child, now known as “Baby Kintyre” revealed a cast of c...

Content warning: death, injury, paralysis, sexual violence, suicide attempt, violence

Based on the film by Lars von Trier, Breaking the Waves tells the story of Bess McNeill, a religious young woman with a deep love for her husband Jan, a handsome oil rig worker in 1970's Scotland. When Jan becomes paralyzed in an off-shore accident, Bess’s m...

Avertissement : ce contenu contient des scènes de maltraitance, de mort, d’incendie et de violence.

Fanny et Alexandre est un grand opéra en deux actes, adapté du film d'Ingmar Bergman par Mikael Karlsson et Royce Vavrek, avec le soutien de la succession Bergman et la consultation artistique de Cinematograph AB (Ingmar Bergman Jr. et Claes du Rietz).

ACTE 1

Noël chez les Ekdahl. Hélène...

JFK explores the final twelve hours of the 35th president’s life and time spent in Fort Worth, Texas. But far from being a musical biography, JFK is a portrait of a precipice. The fleeting moments of hope before a cosmic page turned, optimism faltered, and America was forced into a new and uncertain era. The opera is a portrayal of the man as we...

Based on the 1970s television movie and novelization by Gail Rock, The House Without a Christmas Tree follows the story of 10-year-old Addie, whose one wish for Christmas is for her father to finally allow a Christmas tree in their family home.

In December of 1946, Addie is thrilled to win the class Christmas tree in a contest, but is disappo...