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Kathryn Lewek (Violetta) and Long Long (Alfredo) © Michael Cooper

Kathryn Lewek leads a solid Traviata revival at Canadian Opera Company

By John Gilks, 18 September 2026

The COC’s revival of Verdi’s La traviata features fine singing, especially from Kathryn Lewek’s Violetta, but has perhaps lost a little of the edge of previous runs.

***11

***11

Toronto

18 Sept 2026

A solid Traviata revival at Canadian Opera Company

By John Gilks

Toronto

Christopher Alden goes batty for the Canadian Opera Company's Die Fledermaus

By Stanley Fefferman, 4 October 2012

It took me a while to warm to director Christopher Alden’s revisionist production of Johann Strauss II’s chestnut and whipped cream torte of an operetta, but gradually the outrageous battiness of it won me over.The story that Alden and his team fashion into a Freudian farce with touches of Bram Stoker goes like this.

****1

****1

Toronto

4 Oct 2012

Christopher Alden goes batty for the Canadian Opera Company's Die Fledermaus

By Stanley Fefferman