Toronto’s new opera house is off to a successful start, garnering positive reviews from critics and audiences alike. And while the new building isn’t going to win any daring architecture awards, its place in the city seems to fit with the mindset of its resident company. “Operagoers in Toronto are an adventurous lot, as befits a city where forty-nine percent of the population (as of 2001) was born outside of Canada. From its beginnings, [the Canadian Opera Company’s] artistic directors have made a point of programming works outside the standard nineteenth-century Italian, French and German repertoire.”