BMO Financial Group Student
Dress Rehearsals

Experience the final rehearsal process of opera for as little as $15 per ticket!

Grades: Suitability varies, please see below for recommended grades 
Tickets and Information: Contact Group Sales at 416-306-2356
Please note: Group rates to regular mainstage performances are also available.

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New! INDIVIDUAL STUDENT RUSH TICKETS

Though the BMO Financial Group Student Dress Rehearsals cater to school groups, a limited number of individual tickets go on sale at 11 a.m. on the day of a dress rehearsal. Individual Student Rush Tickets to the dress rehearsals cost $15 each and are available to full-time students with a valid student card and photo ID. Tickets can be purchased in person only at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts box Office, 145 Queen St. W., are subject to availability and are limited to one (1) rush ticket per person.

Individuals Student Rush Tickets are available for dress rehearsals only. Availability of tickets may fluctuate per dress rehearsal. All rush ticket sales are final and cannot be refunded, exchanged or replaced.

A Florentine Tragedy/Gianni Schicchi – April 23, 2012

A Florentine Tragedy by Zemlinsky and Gianni Schicchi by Puccini – Monday, April 23, 2012

The darker side of love meets the lighter side of death.
In A Florentine Tragedy, based on Oscar Wilde’s play, a merchant discovers his wife is having an affair with the Prince of Florence. This rarely seen opera is part one of a double bill that concludes with the tour-de-force comedy Gianni Schicchi, in which family members frantically scheme to benefit from the death of a rich relative.

Suitable for: Grade 7 – Post-Secondary | some mature themes

The Tales of Hoffmann – April 7, 2012

The Tales of Hoffmann by Offenbach – Saturday, April 7, 2012

A mug full of melancholy memories.
A drunken poet sits at a bar, recalling his lost loves to his fellow drinkers. But this is no ordinary barfly: Hoffmann is a writer of fantastical fables. As he spins his dark reminiscences, they come to life before us and resonate with a universal truth.

Suitable for: Grade 9 – Post – Secondary | some mature themes

Semele – May 7, 2012

Semele by Handel – Monday, May 7, 2012

Her love is supernatural.
Love affairs between gods and mortals seldom end well, as our heroine discovers. Semele, a princess and mistress of the god Jupiter, wishes for her lover to grant her immortality, but Semele’s ambition and vanity ultimately lead to her undoing.

Suitable for: Grade 9 – Post-Secondary | some mature themes


Students at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. Photo Credit: COC © 2010

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