Opera Viva - The Canadian Opera Company the First Fifty Years

A history of the Canadian Opera Company and Canada's cultural growth in the second half of the twentieth century.

About the author

Ezra Schabas is professor emeritus, University of Toronto, and was Principal of the Royal Conservatory of Music (1978-1983). He has written two major biographies: Theodore Thomas: America's Conductor and Builder of Orchestras (University of Illinois Press, 1989), and Sir Ernest MacMillan: The Importance of Being Canadian (University of Toronto Press, 1994), which won the 1995 City of Toronto Book Award.
Carl Morey is a frequent writer, lecturer, and broadcaster on opera, and includes among his many publications An Opera Sampler: Miscellaneous Essays on Opera (Dundurn, 1998). During thirty years as professor of Musicology at the University of Toronto, he occupied the Jean A. Chalmers Chair in Canadian Music (1991-2000), and was the Dean of the Faculty of Music (1984-90).

Product details

• Authors: Carl Morey, Ezra Schabas
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781550023466
• ISBN: 978-1-55002-346-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 231 mm x 256 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 1166 g
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama