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Tag Archives: Canadian Opera Company
Egoyan- Lite
I had another look at the Canadian Opera Company’s Cosi fan tutte tonight, a production that I enjoyed even more this time in its closing performance. Last time I was content to have so much fun & so many laughs, … Continue reading
Elektra again
Today I had a second chance to see & hear the Canadian Opera Company’s Elektra at the Four Seasons Centre. It was so much better for me the second time, possibly because I was sitting closer. That first time (from a … Continue reading
COC fan tutte
Is it really five years ago? Time flies. In January 2014 Atom Egoyan’s production of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte had its premiere with the Canadian Opera Company. I looked back at what I wrote and –after having seen the revival … Continue reading
Elektra-fying
There’s a moment in Richard Strauss’s adaptation of Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s libretto for Elektra that tells you everything you need to know. This is the same family constellation we know from the aftermath of the Trojan War. Agamemmnon is dead, … Continue reading
Centre Stage 2018: a Night of Voices
There are several ways to watch the annual Centre Stage competition, when young singers vie for a series of awards while seeking places in the Canadian Opera Company’s Ensemble Studio. You can watch & listen to the competitors, eight young … Continue reading
A closer look at Hadrian
Today was the closing performance of Hadrian, the new opera by Rufus Wainwright and Daniel MacIvor, presented by the Canadian Opera Company at the Four Seasons Centre. After tonight’s display of healthy nearly-naked male bodies in a homosexual love story, … Continue reading
Hadrian’s Dramaturg: Questions for Cori Ellison
Cori Ellison is the Dramaturg for the Canadian Opera Company’s world premiere production of Hadrian¸composed by Rufus Wainwright and with libretto by Daniel MacIvor. Cori Ellison, a leading creative figure in the opera world, was recently appointed staff Dramaturg at … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Opera, Theatre & musicals
Tagged Aida, Anthony Everitt, Canadian Opera Company, Cori Ellison, Cosi fan tutte, Daniel MacIvor, Don Carlo, dramaturg, Giuseppe Verdi, Hadrian, Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome, Karita Mattila, Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian, Mozart, Peter Hinton, Rufus Wainwright, Thomas Hampson
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