Benefit + Awareness Month

Music & Videos

Enjoy classical music wherever you are! Check out the studio singles and Opera Treats videos from Opera Mariposa’s past Benefit + Awareness Months. We’re also honoured to showcase some special videos where opera artists share honest, vulnerable perspectives on their own experiences with chronic illness.

Check it out, and be sure to subscribe to Opera Mariposa’s YouTube channel, to catch new releases whenever they drop.

Access: Free, paid and by-donation options. Videos include captioning. Music is accompanied by lyrics and translations.

100% of proceeds from studio singles support the ME | FM Society of BC.

ME | FM Society of BC logo with navy blue text and a stylized blue, purple and teal butterfly
Over a blue & purple background featuring Mariposa's Benefit + Awareness Month artwork, is the question “How does Long Covid affect an opera singer?”. Below that is a circle containing a short video clip of Sky in a long teal dress and green KN95 mask singing on a stage.

How does Long Covid affect an opera singer?

Premiering Tuesday, May 27 @ 12pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern

Join singer, educator, researcher, and community care worker Sky Cameron as they discuss how developing Long Covid has transformed their artistic practice, and their relationship to the opera industry as a whole.

Access: includes open captions in English, closed captions with auto-translation, and a visual description in the video description.

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Mini Concerts & Music Videos

Video thumbnail with a red play button, featuring a red-tinted image of Lia Pas's embroidery 'sensorium', which depicts a spinal column surrounded by undulating red and blue lines. Text reads, The Hum (Mariposa Mix). Lia Pas

The Hum (Mariposa mix)

Enjoy an exclusive mix of a music track by Lia Pas – marking the first piece of music she has completed since she developed ME after a virus in 2015.

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Video thumbnail with a red play button, featuring a lavender background covered in music notes and a cutout of baritone Riley McMitchell. Riley is a white man with reddish-brown hair and beard, wearing a dark blue sweater. Next to an icon of a broken heart, text reads, Questo amor. Mariposa's Opera Treats.

A new Opera Treat

Join baritone Riley McMitchell and pianist Eric Hominick for a beautiful opera aria, premiered for 2024’s May 12th International ME & FM Awareness Day!

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Video thumbnail with a red play button, featuring a swirling dark blue background with a cutout of Lia Pas playing a digital piano. Lia is a white woman with short grey hair wearing a black outfit, grey shawl and glasses. White text reads, Piano Improvisation in G Dorian Mode by Lia Pas

Piano Improvisation

Join composer, pianist and multi-disciplinary artist Lia Pas for a beautiful piano improvisation, which premiered for the close of 2024 Benefit + Awareness Month.

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YouTube video thumbnail with a red play button hovering over a background of aqua music notes and a cutout image of soprano Lindsay Gillis performing in a red dress. Italicized text reads, Je suis encore, next to a small icon of an antique carriage. In the corner is a stylized logo featuring a cloud and a music note, saying, Mariposa's opera treats.

Je suis encore tout étourdie

Join soprano Lindsay Gillis and pianist Michael Onwood for a beautiful French opera aria, originally premiered for 2023 ME & FM International Awareness Day.

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Video thumbnail of an artistically lit Chinese Canadian woman holding a rose, with the cursive text Chi il bel sogno di Doretta

Chi il bel sogno di Doretta

Enjoy a music video directed by and starring soprano Jacqueline Ko, featuring pianist Maria Hwa Yeong Jung! Originally premiered for our 2022 Benefit + Awareness Month.

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A YouTube thumbnail depicts a red play button, hovering over an image of performer Lyndon Ladeur on a purple background with music notes, the song title Dies Bildnis, and the logo Mariposa's Opera Treats with a stylized cloud and music note.

Dies Bildnis

Multi-award-winning tenor Lyndon Ladeur joins pianist Nina Horvath to perform a beloved aria from Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Recorded at our 2018 Benefit + Awareness Show.

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Studio singles

Stream or download exclusive tracks in support of the ME | FM Society of BC

Album cover featuring a closeup of a Chinese-Canadian woman in a black beaded gown, holding a vintage microphone and looking over her shoulder against a misty purple background. White vintage text reads, Chi il bel sogno di Doretta - Jacqueline Ko

Chi il bel sogno di Doretta

Enjoy a remastered rendition of the classic Puccini aria, featuring soprano Jacqueline Ko and pianist Maria Hwa-Yeong Jung.

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Against a misty blue background of mountains and a lake, an Asian woman with extremely long black hair stands in profile, wearing an ice blue velvet cloak and a serene expression. Blue text reads, The Singer. Jacqueline Ko.

The Singer

Enjoy Michael Head’s haunting melody about the elusive nature of artistic inspiration, performed and engineered by Jacqueline Ko.

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Album cover featuring a closeup of a Chinese-Canadian woman in a black beaded gown, holding a vintage microphone and looking over her shoulder against a misty purple background. White vintage text reads, Chi il bel sogno di Doretta - Jacqueline Ko

Chi il bel sogno di Doretta

Enjoy a remastered rendition of the classic Puccini aria, featuring soprano Jacqueline Ko and pianist Maria Hwa-Yeong Jung.

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Against a misty blue background of mountains and a lake, an Asian woman with extremely long black hair stands in profile, wearing an ice blue velvet cloak and a serene expression. Blue text reads, The Singer. Jacqueline Ko.

The Singer

Enjoy Michael Head’s haunting melody about the elusive nature of artistic inspiration, performed and engineered by Jacqueline Ko.

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Chronic Illness video play button. A YouTube thumbnail depicts a red play button, hovering over an image of a smiling Robin Hahn and Jacqueline Ko, and pink text reading, chronic illness - let's chat! Win a vacation! Support charity!
Image description: A YouTube thumbnail depicts a red play button over an image of a smiling Robin Hahn and Jacqueline Ko. Pink text reads, chronic illness – let’s chat! Win a vacation! Support charity!

Our co-founders talk chronic illness

Join Opera Mariposa’s Robin Hahn and Jacqueline Ko in conversation as Jacqueline discusses her journey as an opera singer living with ME/CFS. First released for our 2021 Benefit + Awareness Month.

Content warning: Discussion of symptoms, ableism, disability grief

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Enjoy more Benefit + Awareness programming

Discover our other digital offerings for May Awareness Month

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