Tapestry News and Reviews

Earlier this year Toronto audiences attending the New Music Festival heard works by Nicole Lizée who was chosen as this season’s Roger D. Moore Distinguished Visitor in Composition. Luminato [...]

General Director, Michael Mori is among the international opera experts selected to participate in the first ever World Opera Forum in Madrid April 15-18. 

Twenty years following the debut of the award-winning theatre adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s The Overcoat, Tapestry Opera, Canadian Stage and Vancouver Opera announce that baritone Geoffrey Sirett [...]

The Toronto Christmas Market in the Distillery District was in full swing on Wednesday night as we made our way to Tapestry's latest instalment of Tapestry Briefs: Winter Shorts. The night was a [...]

This amusing site-specific production provides a history lesson about Todmorden Mills’s founders and intersecting stories about an illegitimate heir to the mill and a glamorous opera diva who’s [...]

Being a hardcore opera fan means being comfortable with the extremes of the spectrum of human emotions; adulterous detentes, accidental infanticide, self-sacrifice, we take them at face value [...]

Tapestry has assembled a remarkably strong cast for something of this nature. Alex Dobson heads it up as Sir George with appropriately arch acting and his very fine, firm baritone (occasionally [...]

Natalya Gennadi’s portrayal of Oksana is strong, while showcasing a nuanced blend of the character’s optimism and resilience. Gennadi displays dazzling vocals. Adam Fisher as Father Alexander [...]

It is a tribute to the artistry of the performers of Oksana G., the new opera from Toronto’s Tapestry Opera, that the vividness and explicit action of the opera never overwhelms the heart of the [...]

Ten years in the making and featuring a cast of 56 that sings in four languages, the ambitious opera Oksana G. makes its world premiere. Starring the Ukrainian-Canadian soprano Natalya Gennadi, [...]