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Opera in Canada, the Glossary

As an old form of art in a new country, opera came to Canada relatively late.^[1]

80 relations: Airat Ichmouratov, Alberta, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Calixa Lavallée, Canada, Canada Council, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian Centennial, Canadian Opera Company, Chamber opera, Chan Ka Nin, Charles Wilson (composer), Chorale, City Opera of Vancouver, Douglas Major, Elizabeth Raum, Eugène Lapierre, First Nations in Canada, George Elliott Clarke, Godfrey Ridout, Graham George, H.M.S. Pinafore, Harry Somers, Healey Willan, Heather Raffo, History of Canada, Il trovatore, Iron Road (opera), Iroquois, István Anhalt, Joachim Ulric Voyer, John Beckwith (composer), John Coulter (playwright), John Estacio, John Murrell (playwright), Joseph Quesnel, Joseph Vézina, Kelsey Jones, Kingston, Ontario, Leitmotif, Libretto, Louis Riel (opera), Margaret Atwood, Marie Clements, Martin Frobisher, Mavor Moore, Métis, Missing (opera), Motet, Murray Adaskin, ... Expand index (30 more) »
Canadian music history
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Airat Ichmouratov

Airat Rafailovich Ichmouratov (Айрат Рафаилович Ишмуратов, Tatar Cyrillic: Айрат Рафаил улы Ишмурат) born 28 June 1973, is a Volga Tatar born Russian / Canadian composer, conductor and klezmer clarinetist.

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Alberta

Alberta is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Ann-Marie MacDonald

Ann-Marie MacDonald (born October 29, 1958) is a Canadian playwright, author, actress, and broadcast host who lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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Calixa Lavallée

Calixa Lavallée (December 28, 1842 – January 21, 1891) was a Canadian musician and Union Army band musician during the American Civil War.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Canada Council

The Canada Council for the Arts (Conseil des arts du Canada), commonly called the Canada Council, is a Crown corporation established in 1957 as an arts council of the Government of Canada.

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television.

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Canadian Centennial

The Canadian Centennial was a yearlong celebration held in 1967 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation.

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Canadian Opera Company

The Canadian Opera Company (COC) is an opera company in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Chamber opera

Chamber opera is a designation for operas written to be performed with a chamber ensemble rather than a full orchestra.

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Chan Ka Nin

Chan Ka Nin (born 3 December 1949) is a Canadian composer and music educator of Chinese descent.

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Charles Wilson (composer)

Charles Mills Wilson (8 May 1931 – 13 June 2019) was a Canadian composer, choral conductor, and music educator.

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Chorale

A chorale is the name of several related musical forms originating in the music genre of the Lutheran chorale.

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City Opera of Vancouver

City Opera of Vancouver is a professional chamber opera company in Vancouver, Canada, founded in 2006.

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Douglas Major

Douglas R. Major (born 1953 in Berwick, Pennsylvania) is an American composer of sacred music and concert organist.

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Elizabeth Raum

Elizabeth Raum (born 13 January 1945) is a Canadian oboist and composer.

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Eugène Lapierre

Eugène Lapierre (8 June 1899 – 21 October 1970) was a Canadian organist, composer, journalist, writer on music, arts administrator, and music educator.

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First Nations in Canada

First Nations (Premières Nations) is a term used to identify Indigenous peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis.

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George Elliott Clarke

George Elliott Clarke (born February 12, 1960) is a Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic who served as the Poet Laureate of Toronto from 2012 to 2015, and as the 2016–2017 Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate.

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Godfrey Ridout

Godfrey Ridout (6 May 1918 in Toronto – 24 November 1984 in Toronto) was a Canadian composer, conductor, music educator, and writer.

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Graham George

Graham Elias George (11 April 1912 – 9 December 1993) was a Canadian composer, music theorist, organist, choir conductor, and music educator of English birth.

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H.M.S. Pinafore

H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert.

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Harry Somers

Harry Stewart Somers, CC (September 11, 1925 – March 9, 1999) was a contemporary Canadian composer.

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Healey Willan

James Healey Willan (12 October 1880 – 16 February 1968) was an English and Canadian organist and composer.

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Heather Raffo

Heather Raffo (born in Michigan, United States) is a Lucille Lortel Award-winning Iraqi-American playwright and actress, best known for her leading role in the one-woman play 9 Parts of Desire.

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History of Canada

The history of Canada covers the period from the arrival of the Paleo-Indians to North America thousands of years ago to the present day.

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Il trovatore

Il trovatore ('The Troubadour') is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto largely written by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play El trovador (1836) by Antonio García Gutiérrez.

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Iron Road (opera)

Iron Road is an opera in two acts written by the award-winning Canadian composer Chan Ka Nin with a libretto by Mark Brownell and Cantonese translations by George K. Wong.

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Iroquois

The Iroquois, also known as the Five Nations, and later as the Six Nations from 1722 onwards; alternatively referred to by the endonym Haudenosaunee are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of Native Americans and First Nations peoples in northeast North America.

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István Anhalt

István Anhalt (April 12, 1919 – February 24, 2012) was a Hungarian-Canadian composer.

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Joachim Ulric Voyer

Joachim Ulric Voyer (5 July 1892 – 8 January 1935) was a Canadian opera composer.

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John Beckwith (composer)

John Beckwith (March 9, 1927 – December 5, 2022) was a Canadian composer, writer, pianist, teacher, and administrator.

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John Coulter (playwright)

John Coulter (12 February 1888, Belfast – 1 December 1980, Toronto) was an Irish Canadian playwright and broadcaster.

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John Estacio

John Estacio (born April 8, 1966) is a contemporary Canadian composer of opera, orchestral and choral music.

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John Murrell (playwright)

John Murrell, OC, AOE (October 15, 1945 – November 11, 2019) was an American-born Canadian playwright.

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Joseph Quesnel

Joseph Quesnel (15 November 1746 – 2 or 3 July 1809) was a French Canadian composer, poet and playwright.

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Joseph Vézina

François-Joseph Vézina (June 11, 1849 in Quebec City – October 5, 1924 in Quebec City) was a Quebec conductor, composer, organist and music professor.

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Kelsey Jones

Herbert Kelsey Jones (June 17, 1922 – October 10, 2004) was a Canadian composer, pianist, harpsichordist, and music teacher.

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Kingston, Ontario

Kingston is a city in Ontario, Canada, on the northeastern end of Lake Ontario.

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Leitmotif

A leitmotif or Leitmotiv is a "short, recurring musical phrase" associated with a particular person, place, or idea.

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Libretto

A libretto (an English word derived from the Italian word libretto) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.

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Louis Riel (opera)

Louis Riel is a three-act opera by composer Harry Somers to an English and French libretto by Mavor Moore and Jacques Languirand.

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Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic.

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Marie Clements

Marie Clements (born January 10, 1962) is a Canadian Métis playwright, performer, director, producer and screenwriter.

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Martin Frobisher

Sir Martin Frobisher (– 22 November 1594) was an English sailor and privateer who made three voyages to the New World looking for the North-west Passage.

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Mavor Moore

James Mavor Moore (March 8, 1919 – December 18, 2006) was a Canadian writer, producer, actor, public servant, critic, and educator.

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Métis

The Métis are an Indigenous people whose historical homelands include Canada's three Prairie Provinces.

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Missing (opera)

Missing is a 2017 chamber opera with a libretto by Marie Clements and music by Brian Current.

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Motet

In Western classical music, a motet is mainly a vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval music to the present.

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Murray Adaskin

Murray Adaskin, (March 28, 1906 – May 6, 2002) was a Toronto-born Canadian violinist, composer, conductor and teacher.

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Nic Gotham

Nicholas Ivor Gotham, known as Nic Gotham, (27 September 1959 – 25 July 2013) was a Canadian jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Nigredo Hotel

Nigredo Hotel is a chamber opera in one act composed by Nic Gotham to a libretto by Ann-Marie MacDonald.

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Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is a province of Canada, located on its east coast.

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Opera

Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.

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Opera Canada

Opera Canada is a quarterly music magazine published by Opera Canada Publications.

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Ostinato

In music, an ostinato (derived from the Italian word for stubborn, compare English obstinate) is a motif or phrase that persistently repeats in the same musical voice, frequently in the same pitch.

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Overture

Overture (from French ouverture, "opening") is a music instrumental introduction to a ballet, opera, or oratorio in the 17th century.

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R. Murray Schafer

Raymond Murray Schafer (18 July 1933 – 14 August 2021) was a Canadian composer, writer, music educator, and environmentalist perhaps best known for his World Soundscape Project, concern for acoustic ecology, and his book The Tuning of the World (1977).

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Ramona Luengen

Ramona Luengen (born December 29, 1960) is a Canadian composer, choir conductor and educator who has received international attention for her compositions.

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Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas").

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Robert Turner (composer)

Robert Comrie Turner, (June 6, 1920 – January 26, 2012) was a Canadian composer, educator, and radio producer.

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Roberta Geddes-Harvey

Anne Catherine Roberta Geddes-Harvey (née Geddes; 25 December 1849 – 22 April 1930) was a Canadian organist, choirmaster and composer.

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Royal Military College of Canada

The Royal Military College of Canada (French), abbreviated in English as RMC and in French as CMR, is a military academy and, since 1959, a degree-granting university of the Canadian Armed Forces.

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Ruth Watson Henderson

Ruth Louise Watson Henderson (born 23 November 1932) is a Canadian composer and pianist.

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Samuel Dolin

Samuel Joseph Dolin (22 August 1917 – 13 January 2002) was a Canadian composer, music educator, and arts administrator.

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Sioux

The Sioux or Oceti Sakowin (Dakota/Lakota: Očhéthi Šakówiŋ /oˈtʃʰeːtʰi ʃaˈkoːwĩ/) are groups of Native American tribes and First Nations people from the Great Plains of North America.

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Southern Ontario

Southern Ontario is a primary region of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Susie Frances Harrison

Susie Frances Harrison née Riley (February 24, 1859 – May 5, 1935) (a.k.a. Seranus) was a Canadian poet, novelist, music critic and music composer who lived and worked in Ottawa and Toronto.

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Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra

The Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra (also known simply as Tafelmusik) is a Canadian orchestra specializing in historically-informed performance and based in Toronto.

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Tapestry Opera

Tapestry Opera is a Canadian opera company located in Toronto, Ontario.

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The Canadian Encyclopedia

The Canadian Encyclopedia (TCE; L'Encyclopédie canadienne) is the national encyclopedia of Canada, published online by the Toronto-based historical organization Historica Canada, with the support of the federal Department of Canadian Heritage.

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The Golden Ass

The Metamorphoses of Apuleius, which Augustine of Hippo referred to as The Golden Ass (Asinus aureus), is the only ancient Roman novel in Latin to survive in its entirety.

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The Little Red Hen

The Little Red Hen is an American fable first collected by Mary Mapes Dodge in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1874.

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The Man Who Laughs (opera)

The Man Who Laughs is an opera in two acts with a prologue by Canadian composer Airat Ichmouratov, to a libretto in French by poet Bertrand Laverdure, adapted from the eponymous novel by Victor Hugo.

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The New Grove Dictionary of Opera

The New Grove Dictionary of Opera is an encyclopedia of opera.

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Tobin Stokes

Tobin David Stokes (born 1966) is a Canadian composer and theatre creator, notable for his work in opera, theatre, choral music and television.

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Twelve-tone technique

The twelve-tone technique—also known as dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism, and (in British usage) twelve-note composition—is a method of musical composition first devised by Austrian composer Josef Matthias Hauer, who published his "law of the twelve tones" in 1919.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_in_Canada

Also known as Canadian opera.

, Nic Gotham, Nigredo Hotel, Nova Scotia, Opera, Opera Canada, Ostinato, Overture, R. Murray Schafer, Ramona Luengen, Richard Wagner, Robert Turner (composer), Roberta Geddes-Harvey, Royal Military College of Canada, Ruth Watson Henderson, Samuel Dolin, Sioux, Southern Ontario, Susie Frances Harrison, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Tapestry Opera, The Canadian Encyclopedia, The Golden Ass, The Little Red Hen, The Man Who Laughs (opera), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Tobin Stokes, Twelve-tone technique, Vancouver Opera, Violet Archer, Walter Buczynski.

Opera in Canada, the Glossary

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See also

Canadian music history

Opera by country

References