Opera-IS
Your expert guide to the world of opera, providing luxury opera tours, classes and webinars.
LEARN ABOUT OPERA WITH IAIN
ON-LINE COURSES &
IN-PERSON SEMINARS
In Person at
the Arts and Letters Club
“Composing Opera
and
the Art of the Ensemble”
January 17 & 18, 2026
ONLINE Lectures
with Classi Learning
Introducing
Rigoletto &
The Barber of Seville
January 12 & 26, 2026
ONLINE Course
with Classi Learning
“Myths & Legends in Opera”
(Part 2)
4-Lecture Series
February – March 2026
TRAVEL WITH IAIN
LUXURY OPERA TOURS : 2026
March 31 – April 9, 2026
The Salzburg Easter Festival
5 Castles in Bavaria
2 operas in Munich
May 24 – 31, 2026
MALTA
Turandot in Gozo
& Figaro in Munich
Oct 14 – 24, 2026
IRELAND
75th Wexford Festival,
and great country houses
Access Iain’s extensive LIBRARY
of his VIDEO LECTURES
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.
Iain was a regular guest on “Saturday Afternoon at the Opera” (CBC radio) for 25 years and was a frequent panelist on the “Texaco Opera Quiz” from the Metropolitan Opera for 8 seasons.
He has lectured for the Smithsonian, the Chautauqua Institution, the Great Books Foundation, Opera Guilds International, and many more – including many Wagner Societies across North America.
Remembering
Father Owen Lee
Father Mark Owen 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.
Iain has assembled a Memorial Archive, containing most of his intermission broadcast lectures, as a tribute to Father Lee, who passed away in 2019 just shy of his 90th birthday.
In addition to his Met Opera broadcast career, Father Lee was a distinguished author of over 20 books, a Professor of Classics, a sensitive poet, and a life-long Basilian priest.