2026/2027 Season

Welcome to our 2026/2027 season!

This season celebrates opera in all its power to move, provoke, and inspire, bringing together stories of love and loss, myth and memory, comedy and tragedy.

Meet our 26/27 season image artist!

Halie Finney (she/her) is a multidisciplinary Métis artist originally from the Lesser Slave Lake area, specifically Canyon Creek, Alberta. Her creative practice includes work as a tattooist, illustrator, comic book writer, painter, and illustrator, as well as installations and video productions. Halie’s biggest influence has been her experience growing up in the bush in rural Alberta, including all of the plants and animals and people that live there, and her nostalgia for home remains an ongoing inspiration. Halie Finney has shown her work nationally and internationally and recently published her first comic, Cousin Bear Comes to Visit, with Conundrum Press.

"For the seasonal image I decided to feature a loon. The loon is a perfect fit for many reasons; one is because it’s a well-recognized and loved bird in Canada and, more specifically, it’s the official bird of Ontario. The loon also has a distinctive call—it’s familiar and otherworldly at the same time and an animal with such a special voice felt very fitting to represent the Canadian Opera Company for this season. The colour and textures in the loon have a narrative quality to them; there’s moments of soft subtle colour and also dramatic contrast. Surrounding the loon you can see the ripples of water, like sound waves, shimmering around and framing the star of the show."