Singer

It’s a kind of magic… Opera Kelowna teams up with the Gary Cable Project to rock out with Queen, the ultimate genre-bending band. This one-night-only event will feature One of Canada’s most exciting and innovative opera singers, Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野, taking on lead vocals made immortal by Freddie Mercury. Under the musical direction of Rosemary Thomson, the night will also feature six Bohemian Backup Singers sprinkling in a few opera gems, backed up by both The Gary Cable Project rockers and Their Majesty’s Strings.

With hits like Somebody to Love and Bohemian Rhapsody mixed in with a selection of tunes from deep within the Queen catalogue, this performance offers Okanagan audiences a unique experience. Our performers deliver the vocal dexterity, instrumental virtuosity, and dynamic energy that Queen’s music shares with the world of opera.

Queen: A Night with the Opera

Kelowna Community Theatre

Opera Kelowna presents the first half of their 2-part studio production, The Queen in Me. With a cleverly comical critique of how race, gender, and sexuality are portrayed in opera, this production gives voice to characters who’ve wept, raged, and died onstage for centuries—now it’s their turn to speak.

Combining comedy, drama, and opera, The Queen In Me is a tour de force created and performed by Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野.  One of Canada’s most exciting and innovative sopranos, Teiya Kasahara (they/he) takes the stage as one of opera’s most famously complex characters, the Queen of the Night. But the character interrupts their normal performance of vengeance-via-vocal-pyrotechnics to look back at what Mozart has made of her in The Magic Flute. From there, the audience becomes part of the show as they meet characters from Puccini’s La Bohème, Madama Butterfly, Turandot, and Manon Lescaut; Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor; Verdi’s Macbeth and Rigoletto; and R. Strauss’ Salome. Each character delves further into what opera has historically demanded of its women, both as characters and the artists who portray them.

This Opera Kelowna presentation is the Western Canadian premiere of the Theatre Gargantua/Amplified Opera / Canadian Opera Company / Nightwood Theatre co-production. It is performed with a local string ensemble under the musical direction of Rosemary Thomson.

The Queen In Me

Rotary Centre for the Arts

Enthralling, dramatic, and yet eerily beautiful—nothing compares to Verdi’s Requiem. This spellbinding masterwork weaves together a thrilling symphonic score and breathtaking solos with one of the most harrowing sacred texts—a powerful cry for deliverance. Experience this monumental and haunting work with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, four stellar vocal soloists, and members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Jean-Sébastien Vallée

Soprano

Teiya Kasahara

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Mar 1, 2025

Queen: A Night with the Opera · Opera Kelowna

Feb 26, 2025

The Queen In Me · Opera Kelowna

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