Tickets available now for HSOF 2023
Tickets are now on sale at Eventbrite for all tickets HSOF events! General Admission tickets will be $35 at the door, but you can save $5 if you buy in advance online. For more information about Tickets for HSOF events, see our Ticket page.
Apply now for HSOF 2023!
Join us for our 17th Season of supportive opera training on the East Coast of Canada! We offer an artist-centred approach that teaches and strengthens your stage skills in the context of rehearsing and performing an entire role in an opera. We’ll be hearing all auditions digitally this year, and as long as your materials […]
Opera Canada review of Armide, 2022
“A magical show” says the Opera Canada review of our 2022 opera, Armide! Thanks to reviewer Daphna Levit and congratulations to all our participants! Read the entire review at the Opera Canada website “The production was double-cast and although it was the same production, same staging, some of the same singers and the same orchestra—each […]
MarKo Hubert: Featured Festival Artist
Originally from Québec, baritone, MarKo Hubert is now based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. A frequent collaborator with HSOF, MarKo made his debut with us in 2017’s Carmen as Moralez and le Dancaïre, and returned in 2019 to sing all the villains in Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann. We’re thrilled to have him back with us, bringing […]
Opera in Halifax this summer!
The return of opera! On behalf of all of us at HSOF, I’m so happy to let you know that the Festival will be back with public performances in July and August, after two years of pandemic cancellations! For 2022 we will present just one production: Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Armide (1777), sung by a cast of […]