Opera fans, I have good news! If we avoid the braying void of innovation around Place des Arts, there are reasons for cautious optimism. University music students occasionally run out of drugs and begin speaking to each other, and Montreal still has less rent pressure than Toronto or New York — more than there used to be, but enough to attract all kinds of weird credit risks. So we can listen to new groups like Collectif Baroque Mont-Royal, Opéra Immédiat and Opera da Camera, the latter formed by Meagan Zantingh, Benjamin Kwong, and Kathrin Welte at McGill in 2011.
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