Toronto’s New Opera House

Toronto’s glittering new Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts opens this weekend, and the $150 million venue is aiming high, as is the primary tenant, the Canadian Opera Company. “Architect Jack Diamond’s spare, modernist structure is first and foremost an ideal place to experience the powerful blend of words, music and drama that is opera. If the opera company and its associated Canadian Opera House Corporation can continue to pay their way, the new structure heralds a bigger dot for Toronto on the world’s cultural map.” The Four Seasons Centre opens just in time to play host to COC’s upcoming production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle.