Canadian Opera Company.For all its moments of torture and bloodshed, Puccini's Tosca made a comparatively upbeat Canadian Opera Company The Canadian Opera Company (COC), located in Toronto, Ontario, is the largest opera company in Canada and the sixth largest in North America. It was established in 1950 as the Royal Conservatory Opera Company, by Nicholas Goldschmidt and the late Herman Geiger-Torel. winter season companion to From the House of the Dead From the House of the Dead (Z Mrtvého Domu in Czech) is an opera by Leoš Janáček, in three acts. The libretto was translated and adapted by the composer from the novel by Dostoyevsky. . In a new, unimaginatively directed (by Paul Curran
Hungarian soprano Eszter Sumegi returned from her 2003 assumption of the title role, less indebted this time to silent screen histrionics, to sing a fine "Vissi d'arte" midway through hot pursuit by the veteran, still-potent Scarpia of British baritone Alan Opie. The sheer vocal amplitude of the stolid stol·id adj. stol·id·er, stol·id·est Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; impassive: "the incredibly massive and stolid bureaucracy of the Soviet system" Russian tenor, Mikhail Agafonov, undercut Scarpia's even-more-menacing attitude toward Cavaradossi. Along with Sandra Horst's characteristically splendid chorus, the production also featured a vocally strong, if dramatically fussy, Sacristan sac·ris·tan n. 1. One who is in charge of a sacristy. 2. A sexton. [Middle English, from Medieval Latin sacrist in bass Robert Pomakov, with the supporting roles of Angelotti, Spoletta, Scarrione and a Shepherd Boy capably taken by Andrew Stuart, John Kriter, Jon-Paul Decosse and Dov Houle. |
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