December 31, 2025 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.
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.
Andrea Carroll, soprano (Guatemala/USA)
American/Guatemalan/Austrian soprano Andrea Carroll recently returned to the Wiener Staatsoper as Norina in Don Pasquale, and to the Houston Grand Opera as Nannetta in Falstaff. She made her Royal Opera House debut as Musetta in La bohème. Other notable engagements have included Pamina in Magic Flute with the Dallas Opera, Adina in L'elisir d'amore with the Norwegian National Opera, and Micaëla in Carmen with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. Upcoming productions include Sir David’s McVicar’s new production of Das Rheingold, a debut with Opéra national de Paris, and returns to both the Canadian Opera Company and the Metropolitan Opera. Andrea was a finalist in the 2015 Operalia competition, winner of the 2012 Eleanor McCollum Competition, and a 2018 recipient of the Richard Tucker Career Grant.
Wallis Giunta, mezzo-soprano (Canada)
Recently, Canadian mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta was named “Young Singer of the Year” at the International Opera Awards, and “Young Artist of the Year” by The Arts Desk. In the 2024/25 season, her debuts include Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti with the Royal Opera House and a triple-bill of Weill operas at Teatro alla Scala. Other recent highlights include her house debut at Opéra de Lausanne as Dorabella in Così fan tutte, the title role in the Austrian premiere of Adams’s The Gospel According to the Other Mary, Anna I in Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins on tour to Carnegie Hall, and the title role in Carmen at Montréal’s Maison Symphonique and in concert with the Wiener Symphoniker.
David Esteban, tenor (Italy/Ecuador)
Italo-Ecuadorian tenor David Esteban recently debuted as Cavaradossi in Tosca with the Schleswig-Holstein Landestheater, as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at Theatre Vanemuine, and as Carlo in Giovanna d’Arco with the Estonian National Opera. This season, his upcoming roles include Alfredo in La traviata and the title role in Peter Grimes with the Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landestheater. David has appeared as Don José in Carmen at Theatre Vanemuine, Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg, Auditorio de Zaragoza, and the National Theatre of Albania. Other recent performances include Tamino in Magic Flute in Busan, as well as Alfredo in La traviata and Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Ulsan Culture & Arts Center in South Korea.
Luke Sutliff, baritone (USA)
American Baritone Luke Sutliff is an alumnus of the Houston Grand Opera Studio. This season, he will debut as Marcello in La bohème, Papageno in Magic Flute, and Wolfram in Tannhäuser. Recent credits include the title role in Nico Muhly's version of Monteverdi’s Orfeo at the Santa Fe Opera, as well as Silvio in Pagliacci with Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia with the North Carolina Opera and the Seattle Opera, and Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Atlanta Opera. A native of Denver, Colorado, Luke graduated from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University with a Master’s of Music and received his Bachelor of Music from the Juilliard School under the tutelage of the late Sanford Sylvan.
Produced by Roy Thomson Hall and Attila Glatz Concert Productions. Artists subject to change without notice.
How to get there
Roy Thomson Hall
60 Simcoe Street
Toronto, ON
M5J 2H5
Venue Phone: 416-872-4255
