Opera-IS
Your expert guide to the world of opera, providing luxury opera tours, classes and webinars.
ONLINE COURSES & IN PERSON SEMINARS
ONLINE Series with Classi Learning
Myths & Legends in Opera
Oct 20 – Dec 1, 2025
In Person at the
Arts and Letters Club
“Composing Opera and
the Art of the Ensemble”
January 17 – 18, 2026
LUXURY OPERA TOURS : 2026
March 31 – April 9, 2026
Salzburg Easter Festival
& Ludwig’s Castles in Bavaria
May 24 – 31, 2026
Turandot in Gozo
& Figaro in Munich
June 24 – July 1, 2026
Ring Cycle & Parsifal in Budapest
Access Iain’s extensive VIDEO LIBRARY
Learn all about opera from the comfort of home.
Our exclusive video library contains over 70 video lectures focusing on many different operas, composers and opera destinations.
About Opera-IS
Iain Scott, the “IS” of Opera-IS, is perhaps Canada’s best known and most popular opera tour designer-leader. Iain is an also an evangelist opera educator offering lectures, courses and weekend seminars.
Throughout his 30-year corporate business career, he taught evening classes on opera appreciation at the University of Toronto, York University, Ryerson University, the Royal Conservatory and in many other educational institutions, associations and Community Centres throughout Canada and the USA.
Remembering
Father Owen Lee
Iain has assembled a Memorial Archive tribute to Father Mark Owen Lee, who passed away in 2019 just shy of his 90th birthday. Lee was a distinguished author, a Professor of Classics and a life-long Basilian priest.
Father Lee continues to be admired by millions around the world for his brilliant intermission commentaries on Opera in radio broadcasts for the Metropolitan Opera in New York and for his series of Talking about Opera CDs for the Met Opera Guild.