Vol. LX, No. 1

Opera Canada

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Notebook
A perfect confluence of timing and events means we’re able to bring you a surfeit of reports from summer opera festivals, both national and international, in this issue. From the larger-than-usual Canadian contingent at Santa Fe Opera, to the latest
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In Memoriam
Canadian opera legend, bass Joseph Rouleau, passed away in Montréal on July 12th, 2019 at the age of 90. Born in Matane, Québec in 1929, Rouleau studied voice as a teenager before entering the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal; he went on
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Artists on Stage
Sarah Cambidge is having a good year. The Vancouver-born, Denver-based soprano recently made her role debut as the Foreign Princess in Rusalka with San Francisco Opera. (The production, by David McVicar, will be presented by the Canadian Opera Compan
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Turandot Without The Trappings
Robert Wilson, the renowned American avant-garde theatre director and designer, will make his Canadian ‘grand opera’ debut this fall with a new staging of Puccini’s Turandot to open Canadian Opera Company’s 2019/2020 season—a co-production with Teatr
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Letter from Salzburg
Founded in the summer of 1920, the legendary Salzburg Festival will celebrate its first centenary this coming year. But in 1967, Herbert von Karajan, the Festival’s Director since 1956, started a highly prestigious sister festival encompassing the 10
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Letter from Bayreuth
It was another ‘non-Ring’ year at the 2019 Bayreuth Festival. Programming centred on Richard Wagner’s ‘one-off’ operas, those early and late musical dramas informed by, and critical to the development of his ambitious four-opera Ring Cycle which will
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Transgender singers IN OPERA
Identity as a theme is not new to opera. It has been, and is being, explored by the art form both onstage and off, in ways both narrative and non-narrative. Identity, specifically as it relates to preconceived notions of binary identities within gend
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Finding The Balance
About 25 years ago, Richard Margison was homesick in Berlin. It was a familiar feeling in those years, when the Canadian tenor’s robust singing career kept him away from his family for 8-10 months of the year. At the time, he and wife Valerie Kuinka’
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Karl For Ever!
Grand Palais, Paris, decorated with Lagerfeld portraits, Jun. 20th, 2019 “A funeral? I’d rather die” declared Karl Lagerfeld. Robert Carsen’s magnificent homage to the famous designer at Paris’ Grand Palais on Jun. 20th was, rather, an anti-funeral—a
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North By Southwest
Emily D’Angelo (Dorabella) in Santa Fe Opera’s Così fan tutte The connection between Santa Fe Opera and the Canadian Opera Company, which goes back to the era of late SFO founder/conductor John Crosby and late COC General Director Richard Bradshaw, h
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From to Victoria Vienna
It was a well-timed moment for Josh Lovell to find Canadian goodies. The Victoria-born tenor, who had to make a recent trip to Ottawa for two visa applications, found himself confronted by a wall of treats he knew he had to share with his Puerto Rica
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Opera in Review
The premiere of Veronika Krausas and André Alexis’ Ghost Opera played to a sold out audience at the Banff Centre’s 950-seat Eric Harvie Theatre on May 24th. The collaboration between the Centre, Calgary Opera and the Calgary-based Old Trout Puppet Wo
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The Final Word
According to a report by the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability, of 148 women and girls violently killed in Canada last year, 91% of those were killed by men. The annual numbers have stayed consistent for four decades. Every
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Opera At Home
CDs DONIZETTI Opera Rara ORC58 One of the most prolific of opera composers, Gaetano Donizetti penned over 70 works in 30 years. But this one, L’Ange de Nisida, never saw the light of day in its original form. Scheduled for an 1839 Paris premiere, the
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Calendar Highlights
14 OPÉRA DE MONTRÉAL. Real-life husband and wife Etienne Dupuis and Nicole Car star as the ill-fated Onegin and Tatyana in Eugene Onegin (see feature p. 24). 28 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY, Toronto. American avant-garde director Robert Wilson’s staging of

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