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Opera Atelier Based in downtown Toronto, Opera Atelier produces twice a year in the heart of the city’s theatre district.

The company is also in high demand internationally, and tours extensively in support of its mandate.

✨TICKET GIVEAWAY✨Opera Atelier and Ludwig Van are giving away two tickets to see M.A. Charpentier’s The Descent of Orphe...
10/06/2026

✨TICKET GIVEAWAY✨

Opera Atelier and Ludwig Van are giving away two tickets to see M.A. Charpentier’s The Descent of Orpheus!

How to enter for your chance to win:

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Giveaway closes October 18.

Good luck!

Single tickets for Opera Atelier’s upcoming production of M.A. Charpentier’s The Descent of Orpheus are on sale now!⁠⁠Vi...
10/05/2026

Single tickets for Opera Atelier’s upcoming production of M.A. Charpentier’s The Descent of Orpheus are on sale now!⁠
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Visit our website operaatelier.com or call 416-703-3767 x1 to secure your seats!⁠
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Photo 1: Gerard Gauci’s set design in Koerner Hall photographed by Bruce Zinger.⁠
Photo 2: Roman Orpheus mosaic from Palermo, 2nd century AD.⁠
Photo 3: Roman marble mosaic, A.D. 194; Eastern Roman Empire, near Edessa.⁠
Photo 4: Artists of Atelier Ballet photographed by Bruce Zinger.⁠
Photo 5: Photo by Bruse Zinger.

Happy Opera Atelier's resident set designer Gerard Gauci in the paint studio, overseeing the creation of the sets for O...
10/02/2026

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Opera Atelier's resident set designer Gerard Gauci in the paint studio, overseeing the creation of the sets for OA’s new production of Handel’s Alcina (2014).

Photo credit: The Globe and Mail, 2014

Throughout history, great poets have accompanied their storytelling with the harp or lyre. This beautiful figure predate...
09/30/2026

Throughout history, great poets have accompanied their storytelling with the harp or lyre. This beautiful figure predates the Orpheus myth by more than a thousand years.

The hero of M.A. Charpentier’s masterpiece, The Descent of Orpheus, charms his way into Hell to rescue his lover Eurydice, using only his voice and his lyre.

Single tickets for Opera Atelier’s upcoming production of M.A. Charpentier’s The Descent of Orpheus are on sale now!

Visit our website operaatelier.com or call 416-703-3767 x1 to secure your seats!

Photo credit: Marble seated harp player, 2800–2700 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art

09/29/2026

Bass-baritone David Witczak returns to Opera Atelier following his spectacular company debut as Saul in Charpentier’s David and Jonathan. This season, David sings the role of Pluto in Charpentier’s The Descent of Orpheus.

Single tickets for Opera Atelier’s upcoming production of M.A. Charpentier’s The Descent of Orpheus are on sale now!

Visit our website operaatelier.com or call 416-703-3767 x1 to secure your seats!

This summer, Opera Atelier’s Market Street performances delighted audience members of all ages! Thank you to everyone wh...
09/26/2026

This summer, Opera Atelier’s Market Street performances delighted audience members of all ages! Thank you to everyone who joined us.

Take a look at some of our favourite and most heartfelt responses to Opera Atelier's 2026/27 Season of Heroes.

Single tickets for Opera Atelier’s production of M.A. Charpentier’s The Descent of Orpheus are on sale now!

Visit our website operaatelier.com or call 416-703-3767 x1 to secure your seats!

Single tickets for Opera Atelier’s upcoming production of M.A. Charpentier’s The Descent of Orpheus are on sale now!Visi...
09/22/2026

Single tickets for Opera Atelier’s upcoming production of M.A. Charpentier’s The Descent of Orpheus are on sale now!

Visit our website operaatelier.com or call 416-703-3767 x1 to secure your seats!

Photo 1: A recently discovered portrait, inscribed by the artist as representing Charpentier, circa 1750.
Photo 2: A portrait of Giacomo Carissimi.
Photo 3: Drawing by Daniel Dumonstier (c. 1627).
Photo 4: L’Hôtel de Guise, Paris.
Photo 5: The Art Institute of Chicago, Orpheus Playing the Lyre to Hades and Persephone.

Set designer Gerard Gauci’s paintings are inspired by four key moments in Opera Atelier’s upcoming production of M.A. Ch...
09/20/2026

Set designer Gerard Gauci’s paintings are inspired by four key moments in Opera Atelier’s upcoming production of M.A. Charpentier’s The Descent of Orpheus. They will figure prominently in the set design for OA’s new production of Charpentier’s masterpiece.

Single tickets are on sale now! Visit our website operaatelier.com or call 416-703-3767 x1 to secure your seats!

Happy Artists of Atelier Ballet in OA’s 2008 production of Mozart’s Idomeneo. Set design by Gerard Gauci.Photo by Bruce...
09/17/2026

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Artists of Atelier Ballet in OA’s 2008 production of Mozart’s Idomeneo. Set design by Gerard Gauci.

Photo by Bruce Zinger.

09/14/2026

Meet soprano Sinéad White, one of the extraordinary voices taking the stage as a soloist in Opera Atelier’s upcoming production of M.A. Charpentier’s The Descent of Orpheus.

Tickets are on sale now! Don’t miss the start to Opera Atelier’s Season of Heroes.

M.A. Charpentier’s The Descent of Orpheus
October 22-25, 2026
Koerner Hall

Visit our website operaatelier.com or call 416-703-3767 x1 to secure your seats!

Photo credit: Soprano Sinéad White with soloists and Artists of Atelier Ballet in Opera Atelier's 2025 production of Charpentier's David and Jonathan. Photo by Bruce Zinger.

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