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Adrianne’s Ariadne
Soprano Adrianne Pieczonka You know you’re an opera fan when___ . There are lots of ways to complete the sentence, but how about this one(….?): you know you’re an opera fan when you come out of the...
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10 Questions for Simone Osborne
Simone Osborne will be taking the lead role of Gilda in the Canadian Opera Company’s new production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto in September 2011. I ask her ten questions: five about her and five...
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Rigoletto, second cast
I had another look/listen to the Canadian Opera Company’s Rigoletto Oct 17th in a performance that was substantially different from the cast that opened earlier this autumn: a different tenor a...
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A contrasting pair
The Canadian Opera Company will be offering a pair of one act operas in their spring season that have some things in common. Both works are set in Florence. Both works are based on literature Both have...
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COC Ballo voices
Back on February 2nd (aka Groundhog Day: when the cowardly little varmints ran back into their little holes) I had a choice. I could have gone to see the opening of the Canadian Opera Company’s Ballo...
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Mahler’s decade
Michael Sanderling led the Toronto Symphony in a program of works from the first decade of the twentieth century featuring soprano Simone Osborne. We heard a diverse assortment of musical styles...
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Parenthood, poverty, Hansel & Gretel: a conversation with Joel Ivany
In a few days Joel Ivany, Artistic Director of Against the Grain Theatre, will be premiering his new Hansel and Gretel at the Four Seasons Centre, in a Canadian Opera Company production. Singled out...
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Make-believe Hansel and Gretel
Oh to be a child again. I saw the opening night of the Canadian Opera Company’s new Hansel and Gretel tonight before a delighted sell-out crowd at the Four Seasons Centre. While there were children...
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#COCgingerbread: Joel Ivany softens a Grimm tale of cruelty
It’s called “Hansel and Gretel”, not “kill the witch”. And in the original the witch isn’t even the nastiest character. You may already know that the new Canadian Opera Company production of...
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