When this year's aspiring opera stars take to the stage of Toronto's Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts to compete in the Ensemble Studio Competition at the Canadian Opera Company's annual ...

Calgary Opera's General Director and CEO, Keith Cerny, Ph.D., is delighted to announce distinguished Canadian tenor and broadcaster Ben Heppner, O.C., LL.D., as Honorary Chair of Calgary Opera's new ...

Opera singers endure merciless scrutiny. Their every onstage phrase and movement are parsed with Talmudic rigor — a situation the Internet has only intensified. Their body weight and emotional health ...

In opera, the passing of the torch from one great singer to another is rarely as clear-cut as we like In opera, the passing of the torch from one great singer to another is rarely as clear-cut as we ...

“Out of the strong came forth sweetness” — the biblical tag might not be a bad description of what happened in McCaw Hall on Thursday evening. In town to serve as judge and conductor respectively for ...

Ben Heppner's recital Wednesday night at Benaroya Hall represented vocalism at once sweet and sophisticated, suave and straightforward. There were many levels of nuance and subtlety throughout the ...

TORONTO - Renowned Canadian tenor Ben Heppner says he doesn’t regret announcing in April that he’s retiring from singing opera. “I have loved it,” the Toronto-based Grammy Award winner and CBC-Radio ...

of Wagner's "Ring" Cycle because he "has retired the role from his repertory," according to a Met spokesman. The Los Angeles Times' blog has the story. Heppner, 55, was to sing the role of Siegfried ...

The competition takes place at McCaw Hall in Seattle on Aug. 16, and is a great chance to hear singers aspire to Wagner's fabulous, and fabulously challenging, music. Only two of the eight finalists ...

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France - When tenor Ben Heppner wanted to try the grueling role of Tristan for the first time back in 1997, he chose a spot that he described as "off the beaten path." Those first ...