Opera Canada

The Merry Widow

ive opera has been hard to come by in Canada these past few months and where there have been performances, audiences have been forcibly limited in numbers. For its long-awaited return to the Jubilee Auditorium, Calgary Opera was constrained to 50% audience capacity by government restrictions. As a company proud of its reputation for not laying off a single employee during the pandemic and for finding innovative methods to rehearse while adhering to strict social-distancing measures, the successful February run of Franz Lehár’s was something of a miracle,

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