Established in 2010, Against the Grain Theatre is an award-winning Canadian opera company committed to revitalizing the operatic art form by presenting an eclectic array of musical works in unconventional spaces and innovative ways. With a mandate to create and introduce audiences to outside-the-box opera experiences, we perform fresh, daring re-interpretations of classical repertoire in unconventional spaces to create a thrilling, intimate, unforgettable experience shared between our artists and audiences.


Toronto, ON

Astrolabe Musik Theatre creates compelling, multi-disciplinary works, frequently performed in site-specific/alternative venues, by pushing traditional boundaries of classical vocal music.By imaginatively reinterpreting established repertoire and creating original work, we create cultural connections, reach out to diverse communities and foster active audience engagement. Particularly passionate about Canadian creators and performers, Astrolabe is dedicated to creating, commissioning, and performing works by Canadian artists.


Vancouver, BC

Burnaby Lyric Opera gives emerging professional and semi-professional opera singers - with a strong local connection - the opportunity to sing leading roles.


Vancouver, BC

To enhance community and spur civic pride by offering a variety of opera experiences, and to be the best at connecting people, through the magic of opera, to themselves, to each other, and to the community. 


Calgary, AB

ABOUT THE COCBased in Toronto, the Canadian Opera Company is the largest producer of opera in Canada and one of the largest in North America. General Director Perryn Leech joined the company in 2021, forming a leadership team with Music Director Johannes Debus and Deputy General Director Christie Darville.The COC enjoys a loyal audience, including a dedicated base of subscribers, and has an international reputation for artistic excellence and creative innovation. Its diverse repertoire includes new commissions and productions, local and international collaborations with leading opera ...


Toronto, ON

Since founding the company in 1990, its Artistic Director, Pauline Vaillancourt, has been creating and producing operas by bringing together creative artists from all disciplines around a common theme: the voice.


Montréal, QC

Art that resonates beyond the final note.Edmonton Opera brings the community together through meaningful artistic experiences that celebrate our shared humanity.


Edmonton, AB

Essential Opera began in 2010 with an idea for a single opera concert, and has continued to evolve through changing times and artistic climates. Our mission is to give both audiences and artists opportunities to experience opera at its most essential, with a dynamic and evolving definition of what is essential. In pursuit of this goal, we have explored works spanning a musical history of nearly 300 years. In past seasons, we have gone from presenting world premières of new works by Canadian composers, to rare outings of beautiful classical pieces, works in the Western Classical European ...


Sackville, NB

FAWN Chamber Creative is a two-time Dora Award Nominated experimental music and opera collective that explores the intersections between art forms and audiences. Known for their daring explorations and riveting live performances, FAWN prioritizes cross-disciplinary collaboration to create new works and audience experiences that defy tradition and blur the lines between genres.


Toronto, ON

To change people's lives through the glory of opera.


Winnipeg, MB

Through unique and immersive experiences in unconventional venues, Manitoba Underground Opera follows opera’s historical tradition telling stories that matter today. We seek to advance the public's appreciation of the arts by providing high quality public performances of operatic works and free performances for audiences that may not be able to attend regular performances.


Winnipeg, MB

Democratization and community outreach, to offer bold productions of high quality, along with something new.


Montréal, QC

L’année 1983 marque une étape décisive dans l’histoire de l’art lyrique à Québec. Après les efforts et le travail des pionniers du Théâtre lyrique de Nouvelle-France, de l’Opéra du Québec, puis ceux de la Société lyrique d’Aubigny pour soutenir la cause de l’opéra à Québec, naît la Fondation de l’Opéra de Québec (7 janvier 1983) qui mène à la création de la Corporation de l’Opéra de Québec (16 novembre 1983), dont la mission est de produire des spectacles d’opéra professionnels à Québec. L’Opéra de Québec se donne pour objectif de présenter au public deux ouvrages du grand répertoire par ...


Quebec, QC

Opera 5 is opera that makes sense. We appeal to a broad audience, and speak to a wide range of tastes. Our production of Poulenc’sLa voix humainetook home theCapital City Critics’ Choice Award for Best Overall Production at the 2013 Ottawa Fringe Festival. The company’s innovative approach to opera has attracted international attention from online and print media such as Maclean’s Magazine, The National Post, The Huffington Post.com, Jezebel.com (Gawker Media), and has been highlighted by BlogTO among others. Opera 5 seeks out opportunities to spread knowledge and appreciation of the operatic ...


Toronto, ON

Opera Kelowna is a registered, non-profit, charitable status society and member of the Canadian Association of Professional Opera Companies.Opera Kelowna is dedicated to equipping, educating, enlightening, enriching and entertaining diverse audiences through professional operatic performing arts and programming.


Kelowna, BC

Opera Mariposa is a critically-acclaimed company working to make opera more accessible for all. As Canada's first entirely, openly disability-run opera company, we are dedicated to creating inclusive opportunities for emerging and underrepresented artists, and have been recognized as "[one of] Canada's key indie players" (Opera Canada Magazine). Since 2012, our productions have been hailed as "well-honed" (Opera Canada), "delightful" (Review Vancouver) and "a stroke of genius" (The Voice), while our annual Benefit + Awareness events have raised over $115,000 for a variety of charities and ...


Vancouver, BC

Debuting in 2009, Opera on the Avalon is the only professional opera company in Eastern Canada. A not for profit charitable organization, we are mandated to produce fully staged operas and concerts with professional orchestra for the operatic and artistic development of emerging and established artists, and the enrichment of the host province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Opera on the Avalon is mandated to make art accessible and relevant for as many Canadian's as possible, while mining and developing the talents of innovative artists.Our Mission:Opera on the Avalon's mission is to create a ...


St. Johns, NL

Pacific Opera Victoria is one of the most influential professional opera companies in Canada. Its inspired repertoire comprises original productions of classic favourites and lesser known works, as well as new commissions, co-productions, and collaborations with other companies and arts organizations across the country. From its home in the Baumann Centre, Pacific Opera Victoria creates significant career opportunities for creative and performing artists and curates opera in surprising ways – enticing newcomers and captivating loyal opera-goers.


Victoria, BC

Who We Are  re:Naissance Opera is a bold new opera company driven by local artists and a deep commitment to equity, intersectionality, innovation and collaboration. What We Do  re:Naissance Opera was founded in 2017 by Debi Wong on the belief that by harnessing the collaborative and interdisciplinary nature of opera; by empowering storytellers and producing stories that have been excluded from the operatic space, we can change the world one opera at a time.


Vancouver, BC

To be an Opera Company that is a star on the regional landscape. To engage the people of Saskatchewan in professional opera through production, outreach, and involvement of young audiences and emerging artists. Saskatoon Opera started operations as an amateur opera company in Saskatoon in 1978. We presented opera standards as well as Gilbert and Sullivan. Many different people were music directors and stage directors over those first 20 years of production including: David Kaplan, Emile Belcourt, Alf Driedger, and James Hawn. In 2000 Artistic Director Barbara Montalbetti took over most of the ...


Saskatoon, SK

Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre (formerly known as British Columbia Living Arts) engages communities through exceptional artistic performances that are collaborative, innovative and approached through various genres of music and other performing arts.STA was founded in 2007 and is a registered Canadian charity.'Theatre of Music and Sound' sits at the heart of what we do. It's our passion.OUR APPROACH:We push the interpretive possibilities of music and sound through all its dramatic capacities, and whenever possible, include new technologies and new ways of generating sound and tonal ...


Vancouver, BC

Soundstreams is an International Centre for New Directions in Music. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Lawrence Cherney and Executive Director Susan Worthington, Soundstreams is a Toronto-based music presenter that commissions, develops, and showcases the work of contemporary Canadian composers and their international counterparts.


Toronto, ON

Tapesty Opera engages and cultivates greater and more diverse audiences for Canadian contemporary opera and music theatre through the production and/or new development of relevant and artistically connected works.


Toronto, ON

The Bells of Baddeck - the Alexander Graham and Mabel Bell Story is the historical music- drama about the couple who changed our world. It tells the tale of their life, family, inventions, and so much more! With Celtic charm, powerful singing, romance and humour, you will fall in love with the show and the Bell Family who left their hearts on Cape Breton Island.


Toronto, ON

Our MissionToronto City Opera is passionately committed to opera for everyone. We give young professionals a chance to perform principal roles with coaching in musicianship and stagecraft. We give our amateur choristers inspiration and skills so that they too can perform in a fully staged opera. And for our community we provide affordable access to this grand synthesis of music, drama, dance, and design to raise up the human spirit of everyone it touches.Our Artistic VisionWe believe the classic opera repertoire continues to inspire and delight audiences and performers from diverse cultures. ...


North York, ON

Vancouver Opera creates extraordinary experiences that engage, inspire and entertain our community through voice, music and theatre.


Vancouver, BC

Company/Artist Description: Volcano creates, produces and tours original or reimagined performing arts shows locally, nationally, and around the world. Increasingly, we use digital platforms alongside our live performance work. Piece / Project Description: The Agreements is a gamified concert – a contemporary classical music project for a virtual performance space. At its centre is a song cycle being created in response to nine agreements crafted by Debbie Patterson, a Canadian theatre writer and leading disability activist. Debbie, also the librettist for the project, lives with multiple ...


Toronto, ON

WOV is comprised of American sopranoEmily Martin, Canadian sopranoElizabeth McDonald, and Canadian pianistKathryn Tremills.Through musical performance, the Trio focuses on the stories of women, both historical and fictional, that are relevant to contemporary culture to help create a dialogue about women’s experience. WOV is committed to commissioning new music with future generations in mind: repertoire that expand the sonic possibilities of art song and questions the thin stereotypes that have restricted female characters in Classical music. ...


Lewisburg, PA