NEW YEAR'S EVE at 7:00 pm
Opera's Greatest Hits with The Canadian Opera Company Orchestra
OPERA'S GREATEST HITS!
Looking for a glamorous way to start your New Year’s Eve festivities?
Toronto’s classiest New Year’s Eve event happens at Roy Thomson Hall featuring world-class opera stars and the colossal power of the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra.
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About the concert
This New Year's Eve, the romance, drama, and grandeur of opera's greatest hits returns to Roy Thomson Hall for a one-of-a-kind concert event. Backed by the power of the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, four international stars perform genre-defining selections from the greatest operas ever written during this glamourous New Year's Eve experience.
End your year on a high note at Bravissimo! New Year's at the Opera.
Cast
Featuring
The Canadian Opera Company Orchestra
Johannes Debus, Music Director
Johannes Debus, conductor
Johannes Debus has been Music Director of the Canadian Opera Company (COC) since 2009, having been appointed immediately following his debut. Outside of Toronto, Debus conducts regularly at the Metropolitan Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Staatsoper unter den Linden, Oper Frankfurt, and the Santa Fe Opera.
Debus graduated from the Hamburg Conservatoire before being engaged as répétiteur and, subsequently, Kapellmeister by Oper Frankfurt where he acquired an extensive repertoire from Mozart to Thomas Adès. As an advocate for contemporary music, he has collaborated with internationally acclaimed ensembles such as Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien, and Ensemble Musikfabrik. He enjoys an ongoing relationship with the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.
CAST TO BE ANNOUNCED. STAY TUNED!
Produced by Roy Thomson Hall and Attila Glatz Concert Productions. Artists subject to change without notice.
Acknowledgements
Johannes Debus is generously underwritten by Riki Turofsky & Charles Petersen.
The COC Orchestra is generously sponsored by The Schulich Foundation and by W. Bruce C. Bailey.
ABOUT THE CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY
Based in Toronto, the Canadian Opera Company is the largest producer of opera in Canada and one of the largest in North America. General Director David C. Ferguson joined the company in 2024, forming a leadership team alongside Music Director Johannes Debus. The COC enjoys a loyal audience, including a dedicated base of subscribers, and has an international reputation for artistic excellence and creative innovation. Its diverse repertoire includes new commissions and productions, local and international collaborations with leading opera companies and festivals, and attracts the world’s foremost Canadian and international artists. The company is an incubator for the future of the art form, nurturing Canada’s new wave of opera performers and creators with customized training and support. The COC’s purpose-built opera house, the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, is hailed internationally as one of the finest in the world. For more information, visit coc.ca.
How to get there
Roy Thomson Hall
60 Simcoe Street
Toronto, ON
M5J 2H5
Venue Phone: 416-872-4255
