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Our Construction and rental house in Toronto combines the benefits of a growing stock of quality opera/musical productions with a flexible and experienced staff.
Malabar's master tailors ensure the integrity of each garment whether rented from our stock of over 30,000 costumes or built specially for your production. Leading international designers know they can rely on Malabar to execute the most demanding projects on time and to their specifications.
The following is a partial list of Opera and Musical productions available for rental.
We're busy at work, building our "Electronic Costume Catalogue". This page is updated regularly as new photos and sketches are being scanned and loaded. If you do not see what you're looking for, please contact us. We will be happy to supply you with information pertaining to any of our productions.
For more information or to book these costumes for your professional production, please contact our Opera & Stage Department at opera@malabar.net or 416-534-0466.
* Partial - Please contact us for details
| Production | Period | Designer |
| Adriana Lecouvreur* | France, 1750s | |
| Aida (Partial) | Ancient Egypt | |
| Albert Herring* | England, 1900s | |
| Amadeus | Vienna, 1700s | Brent Griffin |
| Amahl and the Night Visitors | Biblical | |
| Andrea Chenier* | France, 1793 | |
| Attila | Mid-Europe, Dark | Howard Tsvi Kaplan |
| The Barber of Seville | Spain, 17th Century | |
| The Bartered Bride* | Grant Wood | |
| The Beggars Opera | England, 1730s | |
| Bilby's Doll* | USA, 1650s | Suzanne Mess |
| La Boheme | France, 1850s | |
| La Boheme | Late 19th Century | Leads by Howard Tsvi Kaplan |
| Boris Godunov | Russia, 1600s | Suzanne Mess |
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| Carmen | Spain, 1930s | Andrew Poleszak |
| Carmen | Spain, 1820s, Goya Period | |
| Cavalleria Rusticana | Italy, 1890s | Edward Kotanen |
| Cendrillon | Mythical, 1649 | Suzanne Mess |
| La Cenerentola | ||
| La Cenerentola | Biediermeier | Edward Kotanen |
| The Chocolate Soldier | Bulgaria, 1885 | |
| A Christmas Carol | England, 1840s | |
| Le Comte Ory | France, 1200s | Howard Tsvi Kaplan |
| The Crucible* | USA, 1650s | |
| The Coronation of Poppea | Baroque | Robin Linklater |
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| Daughter of the Regiment | Mid-Europe,1830s | Montresor |
| Der Freischtz | Germany, late 17th cent. | |
| Dialogues of the Carmelites | France, 1793 | Skalicki |
| Die Walkure | German myth and legend | Helen Rodgers |
| Don Carlos | Spain, 1500s | Suzanne Mess |
| Don Giovanni | 17th Century | Howard Tsvi Kaplan |
| Don Giovanni | 1780s | |
| Don Pasquale* | Italy, 1840s | John Lehmeyer |
| Elektra | Classical Antiquity | Amrei Skalicki |
| Elixir of Love* | Italy, 1830s | |
| Eugene Onegin | Russia, 1810-25 | |
| Falstaff | England, Elizabethan | Suzanne Mess |
| Faust | Germany, 1520 | |
| Faust | Germany, WW1 | |
| Fidelio* | Spain, 1800s | |
| Die Fledermaus | Late 19th Century | Edward Kotanen |
| The Flying Dutchman | Germany, Mythical, early 1800s | |
| La Forza Del Destino | Mid-Europe, late 1700s | Susan Benson |
| The Gambler | Central Europe, 1870s | Georgi Alexi-Meskishvili |
| Gianni Schicchi | Italy, Renaissance | |
| Girl of the Golden West | USA, 1850 | Suzanne Mess |
| Gloriana | Late Elizabethan | David Woolard |
| The Gondoliers (Gilbert & Sullivan) | Venice, 1700s and 1800s | |
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| Hamlet* | Denmark, Mythical | |
| H.M.S Pinafore | England, 1800s | Gregg Barnes |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | London, 1895 | |
| The Impresario* | France, 1750s | |
| Inez de Castro* | Portugal, Medieval | |
| The Inventor* | Second half of the 19th Century | |
| Iolanthe | Victorian | Richard St. Clair |
| The Italian Girl in Algiers | Mediterranean, 1800s | |
| Kismet* | Mythical | Michael Stennett |
| I Lombardi* | Jerusalem, 1099 Crusades | |
| Les Misérables | France, early 19th century | |
| Lucia Di Lammermoor | Cavalier | Suzanne Mess |
| Lucrezia Borgia* | Italy, Renaissance | |
| Macbeth | Early Medieval - Europe | Suzanne Mess |
| Macbeth | Medieval Japan / Kabuki | Amrei Skalicki |
| Madame Butterfly | Futuristic Fantasy | Howard Tsvi Kaplan |
| Madame Butterfly | Japan, 1900s | Evan Ayotte |
| Manon* | France, 1750s | Zack Brown |
| Manon Lescaut | France, 1750s | |
| Maria Padilla | Spain, 14th Century | Howard Tsvi Kaplan |
| Maria Stuarda | England, 1560s | Howard Tsvi Kaplan |
| Marriage of Figaro | Spain, 1750 to 1780 | |
| Marriage of Figaro | Spain, 1770s | Allen Charles Klein |
| Mary Poppins | England, 1910 | |
| A Masked Ball | Sweden, 1792 | |
| Mefistofele* | Germany, Medieval | Toni Businger |
| Merry Wives of Windsor* | England, Elizabethan | |
| Midsummer Night's Dream | Mythical, Elizabethan | Michael Stennett |
| The Mikado | Japanese Traditional | Howard Tsvi Kaplan |
| Moses in Egypt* | Biblical | |
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| Nabucco | Biblical | Nicola Benois |
| Norma* | France, Dark Ages | Ray Diffen |
| The Nose | 1840s | Georgi Alexi-Meskhishvili |
| Orfeo | Mythical, Greece | Robin Linklater |
| Otello | Cyprus, late Renaissance | |
| Our Town | Turn of the Century | |
| Pagliacci | Italy, 1915 | |
| Peter Grimes | England, mid 1800s | |
| La Perichole* | Fantasy Peruvian | |
| Pirates of Penzance | England, 1800s | Howard Tsvi Kaplan |
| Rake's Progress | England 1750s | |
| Regina* | America, turn of century | |
| Rigoletto | Italy, Renaissance | |
| Rigoletto | Italy, 1500s | Martin Pakledinez |
| Romeo and Juliet | Italy, Renaissance | |
| Der Rosenkavalier* | Austria, 1750 | Ray Diffen |
| Salome | Biblical | |
| Samson and Delilah | Biblical | John Lehmeyer |
| Siege of Corinth | Howard Tsvi Kaplan | |
| The Sound of Music | Austria, 1938 | |
| Suor Angelica | Italy 1600s | |
| Sweeney Todd | England, 1800s | |
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| Il Tabarro* | France, 1870s | |
| Tales of Hoffman* | Mid-Europe, 1800s, fantasy | Gromes/Kaplan |
| Tancredi* | Mediterranean, Medieval | Michael Stennett |
| Tannhauser | Germany, Medieval | |
| Tosca | Italy, 1800 | Ray Diffen |
| La Traviata (Bustle)* | France, 1870 | John Lehmeyer |
| La Traviata (Crinoline) | France, 1850 | Suzanne Mess |
| Trial by Jury* | England, 1800s | |
| Il Trovatore | Spain, Medieval | Charles Caine |
| Turandot | China, Mythical | Charles Caine |
| Turn of the Screw* | England, Mid-1800s | |
| Werther | Frankfurt, 1790s | |
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