The Calgary Opera is a Canadian professional opera company in Calgary, Alberta, originally known as the Southern Alberta Opera Association. It performs in the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, accompanied by the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and the Calgary Opera Chorus. It mounts three productions a year during its November–May season, as well as an annual concert or recital featuring a singer of outstanding international reputation.
Calgary Opera also employs a resident company of singers who have completed their training and are in the early stages of their professional careers. These singers cover principal roles, perform in smaller roles, and help take opera to the broader public in Calgary and in the communities of southern Alberta.
In Canada, Calgary Opera ranks with Toronto's Canadian Opera Company, Opéra de Montréal, the Vancouver Opera, and Pacific Opera Victoria as being among North America's most innovative and successful opera companies. Calgary Opera showcases primarily North American singers in its casts, and regularly produces contemporary North American operas, including works that it commissions. Calgary Opera was the first Canadian company to mount a production of "Dead Man Walking", and achieved acclaim for "Filumena", which it co-commissioned with the Banff Centre, and which was created by librettist John Murrell and composer John Estacio.
| Year |
Main-Stage Productions [1] |
| 2013/14 |
The Italian Girl in Algiers, The Flying Dutchman, and Madama Butterfly[2] |
| 2013 Summer |
The Pirates of Penzance [3] |
| 2012/13 |
Otello, Falstaff, and La traviata |
| 2011/12 |
Pagliacci and Gianni Schicchi, Moby Dick, and La Bohème |
| 2010/11 |
Lucia di Lammermoor, The Inventor, and Aida |
| 2009/10 |
Manon, Little Women, and Don Giovanni |
| 2008/09 |
Faust, Ariadne auf Naxos, and Il Barbiere di Siviglia |
| 2007/08 |
Rigoletto, The Ballad of Baby Doe, and Tosca |
| 2006/07 |
La Cenerentola, Frobisher, and Carmen |
| 2005/06 |
Turandot, Dead Man Walking, and Die Zauberflöte |
| 2004/05 |
Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium closed for renovations |
| 2003/04 |
Roméo et Juliette, Sweeney Todd, and The Tales of Hoffmann |
| 2002/03 |
Hänsel und Gretel, Filumena, and La Traviata |
| 2001/02 |
Le Nozze di Figaro, La Bohème, and Don Pasquale |
| 2000/01 |
Il Trovatore, Turtle Wakes, and Madama Butterfly |
| 1999/00 |
Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Aida, and Die Fledermaus |
| 1998/99 |
Rigoletto, Don Giovanni, and Carmen |
| 1997/98 |
Tosca, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and Faust |
| 1996/97 |
Turandot, The Mikado, and Die Zauberflöte |
| 1995/96 |
La Bohème, La Cenerentola, and Eugene Onegin |
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