Operanation, the Canadian Opera Company’s annual fundraising gala, is the biggest opera party in North America and an event that we always look forward to.

Rufus Wainright, Broken Social Scene, Nelly Furtado, and Austra are just some of the big names that have shared the stage with singers from the COC Ensemble Studio. This year, hundreds of fashionable guests filled the sparkling Four Seasons Centre and were positively dazzled by the COC’s collaboration with French dance-pop cutie Yelle.

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