HSOW 2010 Programme announced

HSOW 2010 dates to be announced Susannah by Carlisle Floyd music director: Tara Scott stage director: Nina Scott-Stoddart Alcina by G.F. Handel music director: TBA stage director: Garry Williams Audition dates TBA

“Opera to the People”

Opera to the people: the Halifax Summer Opera Workshop adds a new cultural dimension to the city. By Kate Watson Halifax Magazine, August 2009 Opera. The word conjures up vision of august singers and opulent sets on stages in faraway places like Sydney, New York, Vienna or Rome. Most Haligonians believe that a night at […]

Wonderful review of Little Women in The Coast!

You don’t have to have read Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 novel Little Women to enjoy Mark Adamo’s 1998 opera that’s based on it. However, you may well be inspired to read it after you see it—the moving and vivid portrayal of family strikes all the right chords and is a reminder of what’s really important […]

Great review of the Excerpts program in The Coast

If you’re not sure that opera’s really your thing, I can’t think of a better way to whet your appetite than Halifax Summer Opera Workshop’s Opera Excerpts. The program, which takes pieces from different types of opera from baroque to modern, has something to please almost everyone. Some things, such as the Green-Acres-esque marital misunderstanding […]

Halifax Summer Opera Workshop presents Little Women and Opera Excerpts

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Halifax Summer Opera Workshop presents Little Women and Opera Excerpts To mark its fifth year of operation, Halifax Summer Opera Workshop presents Mark Adamo’s LIttle Women (directed by Edward Franko) and a varied program of Opera Excerpts (directed by Nina Scott-Stoddart) at the Sir James Dunn Theatre from August 7 through August […]