Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野 awarded the Nada Ristich Change Maker Award at 2025 Opera Canada Rubies

Tonight, Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野 is awarded the Nada Ristich Change Maker Award at the 2025 Opera Canada Rubies.

The Opera Canada Ruby Awards, named in honour of Opera Canada’s founding editor Ruby Mercer, were first awarded in 2000. The Rubies were created to recognize and honour outstanding achievement and leadership in the realm of Canadian opera – both on stage and behind the scenes.

 In 2022, a different category of Ruby Awards was introduced. The Rubies’ Nada Ristich Change Maker Award celebrates innovative leadership and social impact in opera. The award recognizes an individual who has made an outstanding cultural contribution to the community through their artistic practice, or to initiatives that create significant creative and social change in the field of opera in Canada.

November 3 - Nancy & Ed Jackman Performance Centre