Tickets: http://www.coc.ca/boheme Soprano Danika Lorèn performs "Quando m'en vo" from Puccini's LA BOHÈME at the Canadian Opera Company's Behind the Season event in March 2018. See Danika as Musetta this spring in #COCBoheme. LA BOHÈME Puccini April 17 to May 22, 2019 Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts | Toronto #COC1819

We're bringing opera to the people this Thanksgiving! On October 13, tune in to CBC Gem for a livestream of Puccini's classic La Bohème, live from Toronto's historic Tranzac Club. The acclaimed 19th-century opera has been reimagined with a contemporary twist by Against the Grain Theatre, which sees the Italian libretto translated into English and transports you from Paris's Latin-quarter to your local Canadian bar. »Subscribe to CBC Arts to watch more videos: http://bit.ly/CBCArtsSubscribe On September 27, La Bohème hit the road on a cross-Canada tour kicking things off in Banff, Alberta. They'll be performing in bars across Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Yukon and Ontario, then landing in Toronto for a two-week residency. Presented by Against the Grain Theatre, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and CBC Arts, we'll be livestreaming La Bohème straight to your living room (or cell phone). Think the Metropolitan Opera's Live in HD but scrappier. The La Bohème broadcast will be hosted by CBC's Lindsay Michael, co-host and producer of Podcast Playlist and a trained opera singer herself. La Bohème follows a group of young artists through life, love and loss. Rodolfo (Marcel d'Entremont), is an aspiring screenplay writer who falls in love with Mimì (Jonelle Sills), a florist and sewing enthusiast. Meanwhile their friend Marcello (Clarence Frazer), an OCAD U-trained illustrator, is in an on-and-off again relationship with his flirty, unfaithful sweetheart, Musetta (Danika Lorèn). La Bohème is directed by AtG founder and artistic director Joel Ivany with music director David Eliakis at the piano. Find us at: http://cbc.ca/arts CBC Arts on Facebook: http://facebook.com/cbcarts CBC Arts on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cbcarts CBC Arts on Instagram: http://instagram.com/cbcarts About: Welcome to CBC Arts, your home for the most surprising, relevant and provocative stories featuring artists from diverse communities across Canada. Our job is to fill your feed with the disruptors and innovators changing how we see the country through movement, images and sound — and to inspire you to join in too.

On October 27, 2016, some of Toronto’s greatest thinkers and change-makers joined together onstage at TEDxToronto to deliver powerful talks and performances that embodied our theme, Symbols + Signals. To learn more visit: tedxtoronto.com. Follow TEDxToronto on Twitter (@TEDxToronto), Facebook (TEDxToronto), and Instagram (@TEDxToronto). Based in Toronto, the Canadian Opera Company is the largest producer of opera in Canada and one of the largest in North America. The COC Ensemble Studio is Canada’s premier training program for young opera professionals. The members of the Ensemble Studio are the COC’s resident artists and important ambassadors for the company. For TEDxToronto 2016, Liz Upchurch, Jennifer Swan, and Wendy Nielsen coach singers Danika Lorèn and Iain MacNeil. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

Excerpts from Verdi's Rigoletto presented by soprano Danika Lorèn, tenor Joshua Guerrero, and baritone Gregory Dahl, accompanied by pianist Andrea Grant. The sound quality (because of the orientation of the speakers) is unfortunately inferior to that at the level below, which was packed with people a while before the performance had started. 0:00 - tenor 1:48 - soprano + tenor 5:08 - soprano + tenor 7:01 - soprano 11:57 - baritone 16:18 - soprano + baritone