Season 2024 - 2025
Join Opera 5 for our inaugural festival season and Toronto’s only Opera Festival. Toronto is the 4th largest city in North America and until now has had no opera festival.
This year featuring the world premiere of Canadian Opera Come Closer by Ryan Trew and Rachel Krehm, Elegies: A Song Cycle, by Willian Finn, who is best known for the Falsettos, and a Gala night featuring Opera and Musical Theatre favourites!
We can’t wait to share this amazing festival with you!
Toronto Opera Festival Ticket Bundle
Don’t miss out on our early bird pricing! Buy your tickets for the Toronto Opera Festival before April 30th and take advantage of our discounted pricing.
Early Bird Prices:
Single tickets - 25% off
6+ tickets to one show - 30% off
Ticket Bundle (at least 1 ticket to each show) - 40% off
Please note, to get the ticket bundle discount automatically applied, you must put tickets for all shows in your cart, but this means you get to choose which dates you come to the shows!
Come Closer
World Premiere
Join Opera 5 for the world premiere of Come Closer – a new Canadian opera by composer Ryan Trew and librettist Rachel Krehm based on Rachel’s experience of losing her sister Elizabeth to addiction. Full of nostalgia, joy, connection, and reflection, Come Closer follows Big Sister through a series of waking dreams sparked by the poetry of her late Little Sister. As Big Sister reads, she explores the past and her mind tries to make sense of who her sister was, their relationship from innocent childhood to a more fractured adolescence, what happened, and how to continue forward.
Part of Opera 5’s 2025 Toronto Opera Festival at Factory Threatre (125 Bathurst St.)
Friday June 13, 2025 – 7:30pm
Saturday June 14, 2025 – 7:30pm
Wednesday June 18, 2025 – 7:30pm
Thursday June 19, 2025 – 7:30pm
Saturday June 21, 2025 – 7:30pm
Ticket Prices: $29-$58
120 minute show including intermission
Click here for more information about Come Closer and Cast and Crew
Click here for more info about our preview performance as part of the Canadian Opera Company’s Free Concert Series
Elegies: A Song Cycle
Come celebrate our Portfolio Artist interns as they perform “Elegies: A Song Cycle” by William Finn. In this 75 minute musical revue, Finn pays tribute to his family members, friends and even pet dogs that have died, through touching stories that will make you laugh, cry, and hug your loved ones a little closer. Even without knowing these particular beings personally, the love and care that Finn imbues into his music helps us all to connect to our own grief stories. Community is vital when grieving and we invite you into ours as we take this musical journey together.
Part of Opera 5’s 2025 Toronto Opera Festival at Factory Threatre (125 Bathurst St.)
Sunday June 15 2:30pm
Tuesday June 17 7:30pm
Friday June 20 7:30pm
Tickets Prices: $24-$39
70 minute show, no intermission
Click here for more information on Elegies and Cast and Crew
Gala: A Night of Opera & Musical Theatre
Come share in Opera 5’s opening night Gala to kick off the inaugural Toronto Opera Festival. Our stupendous Portfolio Artist Interns sing favourite arias, ensembles and songs from Opera and Musical Theatre hits. Join us in a night celebrating the magic of the voice!
Part of Opera 5’s 2025 Toronto Opera Festival at Factory Threatre (125 Bathurst St.)
Thursday June 12, 2025 – 7:30pm
Ticket Prices: $22-$33
70 minute show, no intermission
Our Web-Series
Threepenny Submarine
Are you a fan of opera, classic hits, puppets, and children’s shows? Then wowza, do we have the digital series for you! We’ve teamed up with Gazelle Automations to share the story of junior officers, Iona the cockatiel and Lydian the vixen, as they explore the deep sea in Threepenny Submarine near the mysterious Salieri Sector. After a scare, they accidentally come across a strange sea creature who sounds like a flute, and their adventure begins!
Opera Cheats
Heading to the opera but unsure of what to expect? Well, have we ever got you covered! Check out our Opera Cheats - our YouTube shorts with everything from what to wear to the opera (spoilers: anything you want!) to opera plots.
We thought we’d start you off with The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart. Synopsis in short: Figaro's getting married, but his boss wants to sleep with his fiancee. A tale as old as time.