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Inside Vancouver Opera is a unique backstage glimpse into the world of Vancouver Opera. Join us as we chat with opera experts, artists, Vancouver Opera staff and others to explore the world of opera on and off the stage.
This podcast offers an insider’s glimpse into the artistry, experiences, and perspectives of the talent involved in taking breathtaking opera productions from the page to the stage.
Find out more at VancouverOpera.ca
This podcast offers an insider’s glimpse into the artistry, experiences, and perspectives of the talent involved in taking breathtaking opera productions from the page to the stage.
Find out more at VancouverOpera.ca
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Update frequency:
every 11 days
Average audio length:
24 minutes
Guest interviews
English
Canada
119 episodes
since April 27, 2020
episodic
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Gregory Dahl is back. Two years after telling us “air is everything,” one of Canada’s great baritones joins host Ashley Daniel Foot mid-run as Baron Scarpia, the devout, impeccably dressed and utterly terrifying police chief at the heart of Puccini’s Tosca.
It’s a candid, funny and surprisingly ten…
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wenty-four hours. One escaped prisoner. A villain who controls the city. And a twist so cruel it still shocks audiences more than a century later.
When Puccini’s Tosca premiered in 1900, critics called it lurid. Audiences couldn’t get enough. Now it looks like something else entirely: the blueprint…
There are few characters in opera quite like Floria Tosca: a celebrated singer, a passionate lover, a woman of faith, and someone whose world collapses in under a day.
Host Ashley Daniel Foot sits down with internationally acclaimed Lebanese-Canadian soprano Joyce El-Khoury, who sings the title rol…
Maestro Jacques Lacombe has extended his tenure as Vancouver Opera’s Music Director for three more seasons. Ahead of Puccini’s Tosca, host Ashley Daniel Foot sits down with him to talk about power, listening and the music between the notes.
Jacques remembers assisting Leonard Bernstein in Vienna in…
Marion Newman is a mezzo-soprano, a teacher, and the voice you hear on CBC's Saturday Afternoon at the Opera. Kwagiulth and Stó:lō, born in Bella Coola and raised in Sooke, she spent more than twenty years in Toronto before coming home to teach voice at the University of Victoria, where she once st…
In February 1948, an eighteen-year-old Jean Orr danced Giselle in Ottawa — the first full production this country had ever seen, with a full orchestra in the pit. She went on to the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and decades later became a founder and the first president of Ballet BC.
Ashley Daniel Foot sa…
Stage Manager Theresa Tsang celebrates 30 seasons with Vancouver Opera.
Every performance you have ever seen at Vancouver Opera, every blackout, every curtain, every entrance, every burst of light exactly on the downbeat happened because one voice on a headset in the dark said a single word, ‘go.’
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Stanis Smith has spent his career designing the spaces people move through — airports, terminals, thresholds. This September, he becomes Board Chair of Vancouver Opera. He's also a clarinettist who self-produced a chamber music album of Brahms and Nino Rota. He's the person who will tell you, with …
Soprano Jonelle Sills came into the world already steeped in music — her mother Desiree sang through her entire pregnancy.
In this Mother's Day conversation, the two of them sit down together for the first time to talk about gospel choirs and opera stages, about coming to Canada with nothing, abo…
Today we're joined by a legendary member of the Vancouver Opera Chorus, Don Wright. We discuss his family's legacy, the life of a chorus singer, the importance of opera in education, and memorable moments from a lifetime in the art form.
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