As the official photographer of the Canadian Opera Company,
Michael Cooper’s photographs span over a period of 37 seasons.
Dating back to the 1980’s, Cooper’s historical library includes photographs of stage productions with opera’s elite performers, from around the world.
All photographs are printed on photo rag archival stock.
Contact michael@coopershoots.com for more details.
Photographs from the following operas are available for purchase: ( a full list from 1984 on will be updated shortly)
2008/2009 season
• Don Giovanni by Mozart • War and Peace by Prokofiev. • Fidelio by Beethoven. •Rusalka by. Dvořák •Simon Boccanegra by Verdi. • La bohème by. Puccini • A Midsummer Night's Dream by Britten
2009/2010 season
• Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini. • The Nightingale and Other Short Fables by Igor Stravinsky • Carmen by Georges Bizet. •Otello by Giuseppe Verdi. • The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner • Maria Stuarda by Gaetano Donizetti. • Idomeneo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
2010/2011 season
• Aida by Giuseppe Verdi • Death in Venice (opera) by Benjamin Britten. • The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. • Nixon in China by John Adams (composer) • La Cenerentola by Gioachino Rossini. • Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss. • Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck
2011/2012 season
• Iphigénie en Tauride by Christoph Willibald Gluck. • Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi. • Tosca by Giacomo Puccini. • L'Amour de loin by Kaija Saariaho • The Tales of Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach. • Eine florentinische Tragödie by Alexander von Zemlinsky. • Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini • Semele (Handel) by George Frideric Handel
2012/2013 season
• Il trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi. • Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II. • Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner. • La clemenza di Tito by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Salome (opera) by Richard Strauss. • Dialogues des Carmélites by Francis Poulenc. • Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti
2013/2014 season
• La bohème by Giacomo Puccini. • Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten. • Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. • Un ballo in maschera by Giuseppe Verdi. • Hercules (Handel) by George Frideric Handel. • Roberto Devereux by Gaetano Donizetti. • Don Quichotte by Jules Massenet
2014/2015 season
• Falstaff (opera) by Giuseppe Verdi. • Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini. • Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. • Die Walküre by Richard Wagner. • The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini. • Bluebeard's Castle by Béla Bartók. •Erwartung by Arnold Schoenberg
2015/2016 season
• La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi. • Pyramus and Thisbe by Barbara Monk Feldman. • Siegfried (opera) by Richard Wagner. • The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. • Carmen by Georges Bizet. • Maometto II by Gioachino Rossini
2016/2017 season
• Norma (opera) by Vincenzo Bellini. • Ariodante by George Frideric Handel • The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. • Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner • Louis Riel (opera) by Harry Somers. • Tosca by Giacomo Puccini
2017/2018 season
• The Elixir of Love by Gaetano Donizetti. • Arabella by Richard Strauss. • Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi. • Abduction from the Seraglio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. • The Nightingale and Other Short Fables by Igor Stravinsky. • Anna Bolena by Gaetano Donizetti
2018/2019 season
• Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky • Hadrian by Rufus Wainwright. • Elektra by Richard Strauss. • Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. • La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini. • Otello by Giuseppe Verdi
2019/2020 season
• Turandot by Giacomo Puccini. •Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák. •The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini. •Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck
