What’s more fun than opera and a beer with friends?
About Opera Pub
AtG’s Opera Pubs are improvised, wild nights that offer up your favourite operatic arias and ensembles, performed by both established and emerging opera talent. Opera Pubs are the perfect introduction for newbies and a welcome break for opera vets who want to see something “a little different.” What’s more fun than opera and a beer with friends?
Opera Pub is headed back out west!
Opera Pub was born in Banff Legion bar in Alberta and then transported to Toronto, where it’s played Amsterdam Bicycle Club, Tranzac Club, and now The Drake Hotel.
But Opera Pub is too much party for just one city, so this season we’re hosting Opera Pubs in Vancouver (in collaboration with City Opera) and Edmonton (in collaboration with Edmonton Opera)!
Watch this video to learn a little more about Opera Pub!
Or read the Schmopera article (linked below) where AtG’s founding artistic director Joel Ivany and founding Music Director Topher Mokrzewski chat about the origins of Opera Pub.
Read the Article
Opera Makin' Headlines
These free, non-pretentious events are what Toronto’s opera scene so desperately needs and what will, hopefully, introduce more people to the opera.
— Toronto Star (2022) by Joshua Chong
“Opera Pub brings this most secret of pleasures to astonished newcomers.”
— The Globe and Mail
For media inquiries, click here.
Times, Dates, & Locations
Location:
The Drake Hotel Lounge
1150 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M6J 1J3
For more information on the venue, you can visit their website here.
Tickets
It’s free! No tickets are necessary, but reservations are recommended. (Reservations taken up to 30 days in advance).
If you want to support AtG so we can keep offering these rowdy evenings of fabulous music, you can donate by clicking the button below!
Dates & Times
All Toronto Opera Pubs happen on the first Monday of the month. They begin at 7:30 PM, but you can show up a little earlier if you wish!
See the full list of dates below!
November 25th, 2024
2025 dates TBA
Location:
La Fabrique St.George Winery
7 E 7th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5T 1M4, Canada
For more information on the venue, you can visit their website here.
Tickets
It’s free! No tickets are required but reservations are recommended. Click here to make one!
But, if you want to support AtG so we can keep offering these rowdy evenings of fabulous music, you can donate by clicking the button below!
Dates & Times
All Vancouver Opera Pubs happen on the first Tuesday of the month. They begin at 7 PM, but you can show up a little earlier if you wish!
See the full list of dates below!
October 1st, 2024
November 5th, 2024
December 3rd, 2024
February 4th, 2025
March 4th, 2025
April 1st, 2025
May 6th, 2025
Location:
Blue Chair
9624 76 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T6C 0K3
For more information on the venue, you can visit their website here.
Tickets
It’s free! No tickets are required, but reservations are recommended. To save a table, just give the Blue Chair Cafe team a call at 780-989-2861!
If you want to support AtG so we can keep offering these rowdy evenings of fabulous music, you can donate by clicking the button below!
Dates & Times
Edmonton Opera Pubs typically happen on the fourth Wednesday of the month. They begin at 7 PM, but you can show up a little earlier if you wish!
See the full list of dates below!
September 25th, 2024
October 30th, 2024
November 20th, 2024
December 18th, 2024
January 29th, 2025
February 19th, 2025
March 19th, 2025
April 30th, 2025
May 21st, 2025
Creative Team
ATG OG Gregory Finney has been around from the jump. He’s been seen in every performance of ATG’s LA BOHEME (Benoit/Alcindoro) – including the recent national tour and groundbreaking livestream in conjunction with the Banff Centre for Performing Arts and CBC Arts, as well as FIGARO’S WEDDING (Bartolo/Antonio), and #ATGMESSIAH. Having carved out a niche as a top-notch comprimario, Gregory is also a frequent feature with Toronto Operetta Theatre (HMS PINAFORE, THE MERRY WIDOW, LA BELLE HELENE), and with VOICEBOX: Opera In Concert (KAMOURASKA, STREET SCENE, DIE FREUNDE VON SALAMANKA). Gregory is also a regular contributor/reviewer for the opera blog Schmopera and has had his music interviews published in LA SCENA MUSICALE and online at OperaCanada.ca. Greggy is over the moon to be joining th Opera Pub team as host and can’t wait to pound pints and Puccini with everyone.
Perri Lo is a pianist and vocal coach, working in opera, chamber music, and dance. She is passionate about intertwining these art forms, coming from a formal opera repetiteur training and working with professional dance companies and schools since 2010. Perri is currently a staff pianist at Ballet BC and Arts Umbrella Dance Company. Most recently, she produced her first dance and art song collaboration, Quartet, featuring baritone Luka Kawabata and dancers of Ballet BC, in support of Banff Centre’s Opera in the 21st Century Program.
Since her role as apprentice coach with the Vancouver Opera’s Yulanda M. Faris Young Artist Program (‘18-19), Perri has music directed productions with Indie Opera West companies such as ReNaissance Opera, of both traditional and contemporary repertoire. One of her most valuable experiences was touring across B.C. with Vancouver Opera and Pacific Opera Victoria’s co-production of Flight of the Hummingbird (2020), a new children’s opera about climate change.
When she is not performing with singers and instrumentalists, Perri serves as B.C.’s Provincial Coordinator for Opera InReach, an artists’ collective providing accessible, innovative, and diverse opera education and mentorship for youths across Canada.
She is grateful to be creating and working on the unceded and ancestral homelands of xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Wanna sing at Opera Pub?
The Opera Pub audience is the best audience to sing for! Good vibes only.
Want to belt it out with a beer in hand? Please fill out our singer application form.
(for Vancouver and Toronto only)
Opera Pub Singer Form
