In 2019, Joel Ivany, now the artistic director for the Edmonton Opera, was part of a theatre group that brought a modernized version of the opera, La Boheme, to the Yukon. At the time, he and Prescott started talking about how to mount the real deal.
Fast forward to 2025 and NAC has Ivany directing Tosca at different venues across Canada. Prescott says it was continued conversation between himself and Ivany and divine planetary alignment that led to a multi-way partnership that will see the opera performed onstage at YAC on Sept. 20.
It’s being produced by the NAC, the Edmonton Opera and YAC, with the performers from Whitehorse’s Problematic Orchestra and Yukon Community Choirs and singers from the Edmonton Opera.