But what has Canada’s self-described second largest opera company been doing this spring by producing “H.M.S. OK, so the Canadian Opera Company once produced — and produced very well — the Broadway musical “Kismet.” So why shouldn’t Vancouver Opera slum a little? Well, snob that I am, I happen to believe that opera companies should be producing opera. It isn’t often enough appreciated how much most Canadian opera companies suffer, like Vancouver’s, from unsympathetic accommodations. But the Vancouver Opera is a national leader in its education programs, its schools program having brought short operas in English to more than 1.6 million children.

Source: thestar June 04, 2022 06:13 UTC