The Canadian Opera Company presents Pietro Mascagni's brilliant 1890 smorgasbord of scandal, revenge, and heartbreak, Cavalleria Rusticana, based on the short story of the same name. One of history's greatest single-act operas, witness a thrilling night in the opera house, with drama and passion playing out against an incredible score.

Published in the early 1800s, Pushkin's iconic tale of love and its eponymous protagonist served as a basis for many of his home country's literary heroes thereafter. Eugene Onegin's riveting tale of tragic romance was further immortalised by Romantic-era giant Tchaikovsky in 1879, and the opera's proudly Russian rhythms, heartrending duets and moving arias have kept it a firm favorite with audiences ever since. Experience its thrilling passion and emotion-stirring score during the Canada Opera Company's revival of Robert Carson's critically acclaimed Met Opera staging, returning in May 2025!

Poverty, pain, and passion lead the poor Wozzeck down a perilous path of destruction in Alban Berg's uncompromising opera, updated by William Kentridge to a visceral pre-WWI apocalyptic landscape. Often regarded as a masterpiece of the 20th Century, Wozzeck shows us the sharp, transformative power of exploitation and brutality, told with virtuosity by a monumentally emotional score.

National Ballet of Canada opens a golden tome of Russian Literature for Christian Spuck's new imagining of Tolstoy's tale of love, passion, honor, and emotion. Thoroughly moving and wonderfully poignant, this exciting new staging will take the tale back to its 19th-century roots with sumptuous sets, costumes and brand-new choreography.