ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS
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ARTICLE: WholeNote | A New Journey: Reimagining Art Song for the 2020s — Apr 2024
2023
INTERVIEW: CBC | Ottawa Morning with Robyn Bresnahan: The star behind The Queen In Me — Sep 22, 2023
ARTICLE: Ottawa Citizen | Teiya Kasahara disrupts the opera world with The Queen in Me Q&A — Sep 14, 2023
ARTICLE: Opera Canada | ARTIST OF THE WEEK: 15 QS FOR TEIYA KASAHARA 笠原貞野 — May 30, 2023
2022
ARTICLE: The Bull and Bear | CREATIVITY, IDENTITY, AND TRANSITION: TEIYA KASAHARA’S JOURNEY — Nov 15, 2022
ARTICLE: Intermisson Magazine | Growing Pains in the Opera Industry: In Conversation with Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野 — Sep 27, 2022
PODCAST INTERVIEW: QTCast | Episode 6 — Aug 31, 2022
PODCAST INTERVIEW: Pacific Opera Victoria | What’s Up With Opera? Episode 7 — Jul 15, 2022
ARTICLE: University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts & Science | By tearing down harmful conventions, Teiya Kasahara 笠原 貞野 is transforming the opera world — June 28, 2022
INTERVIEW: CBC Radio q | Teiya Kasahara on disrupting opera's gender and sex stereotypes with their new one-person show The Queen In Me | June 3, 2022
VIDEO: Canadian Opera Company | Making The Queen In Me — May 2022
VIDEO: Vancouver Symphony Orchestra | In Conversation Otto Tausk & Teiya Kasahara — Apr 29, 2022
ARTICLE: Stir | Teiya Kasahara smashes the conventional opera world’s gender and identity stereotypes — Apr 25, 2022
ARTICLE: Toronto Star | Definitely not the same old Canadian Opera Company: two world premieres and a focus on new voices revitalizes ‘old-fashioned’ repertoire — Feb 22, 2022
2021
VIDEO: CBC Music | How Teiya Kasahara is transforming the world of opera — Oct 25, 2021
ARTICLE: CBC Music | 'Betrayed' by opera, this gender non-binary singer finds their own career path — Oct 25, 2021
VIDEO: V. Tony Hauser | ARIAS: Episode 8 (or 17:14 in the full documentary) — Jul 2021
VIDEO: Canadian Opera Company | COC in Conversation about Gender and Opera — Mar 2021
INTERVIEW: Confluence Concerts | The Butterfly Project: A conversation with Teiya Kasahara and Marion Newman — Feb 26, 2021
INTERVIEW: CBC Radio Day 6 | Meet the upstart company working to disrupt the 'whitewashed' opera industry — Feb 20, 2021
COC NEWS: Amplified Opera Named Disruptor-In-Residence at the Canadian Opera Company — Jan 27, 2021
2020
VIDEO: Electric Messiah inside look with Teiya Kasahara — hosted by Lawrence Cherney, Dec 15, 2020
PODCAST INTERVIEW: Key Change: A COC Podcast | Episode 3: Whose Story Is This? — hosted by Julie McIsaac & Robyn Grant-Moran, Nov 24, 2020
PODCAST INTERVIEW: Vancouver Opera Offstage | Episode 12: “Imagining the future for opera with soprano and multidisciplinary performer
Teiya Kasahara & tenor Asitha Tennekoon, co-founders of Amplified Opera” — hosted by Les Dala, July 29, 2020
PODCAST INTERVIEW: Music Then and Now | Episode 2: Polarizing Identities with Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野 (they/them) — hosted by Jordan B. Wright, July 20, 2020
ARTICLE: CBC Arts | High above Toronto, soprano Teiya Kasahara performs an epic 'callout to the opera industry' — by Peter Knegt, July 3, 2020
VIDEO: The Diva Who Hustles | Episode 9: Pride Month — by Suzanne Vinnick via the Dallas Opera Network, June 23, 2020 (Starting at 7:23) — hosted by Suzanne Vinnick, June 23, 2020
ARTICLE: UBC High Notes | Liberating the Queen in Me | — by Tze Liew, Apr 8, 2022
2019
ARTICLE: The Globe and Mail | The Queen In Me is a damning inside scoop on Canadian opera’s exclusivity problem — by Jenna Simeonov, Dec 2, 2019
ARTICLE: Ludwig Van Toronto | Amplified Opera's 'The Queen In Me' Offers Woke Resistance — by Hye Won Cecilia Lee, Oct 14, 2019
ARTICLE: barczablog | Amplified Opera —The Queen in Me — by Leslie Barcza, Oct 12, 2019
ARTICLE: The Vancouver Sun | Live show questions opera's sour soprano note - by Dana Gee, June 12, 2019
ARTICLE: The Georgia Straight | Opera gets inclusive at Queer Arts Fest — by Janet Smith, June 12, 2019
ARTICLE: Opera Canada | Femmes Fatales, Simpering Victims & #MeToo: Glynis Ratcliffe Asks Four Canadian Singers: How 'Woke' Is Opera in an Age of Heightened Awareness around Sexual Assault and Harassment?” — by Glynis Ratcliffe, Spring 2019
2018
RADIO: The New Classical FM | Interview with Soprano Teiya Kasahara Who Will Perform Music Inspired by Ingmar Bergman at TIFF’s ‘Soundtrack Sundays — November 19, 2018
ARTICLE: John’s Opera Ramblings | Queer of the Night — June 10, 2018
VIDEO: Tapestry Opera | Tapestry Opera joins forces with Pride Toronto — June 8, 2018
ARTICLE: CBC Arts | Opera's massive queer fanbase rarely sees itself reflected on stage — this series is changing that — June 7, 2018
ARTICLE: Ludwig van Toronto | Tapestry Opera’s Queerated Opera Series Is A Fresh Way to Start Your Toronto Pride — June 6, 2018
VIDEO: Tapestry Opera | Being Gay and Female on Stage — June 1, 2018
VIDEO: Tapestry Opera | Tap This: A Queerated Opera Series - Behind the Scenes — June 1, 2018
ARTICLE: Tapestry Opera | Queen of the Night misbehaves — June 1, 2018
2017
ARTICLE: CBC Arts | Meet the emerging creators from Canada’s longest-running festival of new work — Feb 16, 2017
VIDEO: dailyXtra | Young queer Canadian artist reclaim their bodies — Feb 20, 2017