Outstanding singing in COC’s Così fan tutte

By Edward Sava-Segal, 12 February 2019

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“crisp, bright-voiced soprano Tracy Dahl almost stole the show with her comic shenanigans”

Reviewed at Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto on 9 February 2019

Mozart, Così fan tutte

Canadian Opera Company

Bernard Labadie, Conductor

Atom Egoyan, Director

Debra Hanson, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Kirsten MacKinnon, Fiordiligi

Emily D'Angelo, Dorabella

Ben Bliss, Ferrando

Johannes Kammler, Guglielmo

Russell Braun, Don Alfonso

Tracy Dahl, Despina

Canadian Opera Company Chorus

Canadian Opera Company Orchestra

Werther oozes quiet despair in new Canadian Opera Company staging

John Gilks, 7th May

Excellent performances cannot turn a conventional production of Massenet’s Werther into a dramatic experience for the 21st century.

***11

Lepage’s Bluebeard and Erwartung pairing remains compelling theatre

John Gilks, 25th April

Some 30 years after its first appearance, Robert Lepage’s double bill of Duke Bluebeards Castle and Erwartung is still strikingly effective and very modern-looking music theatre.

*****

Canadian Opera Company’s Barber proves as fresh as ever

John Gilks, 5th February

The Barber is back in Toronto with an excellent cast, young and old, and it’s as lively, colourful and energetic as ever.

****1

Christopher Alden’s Rigoletto returns to Canadian Opera Company

Michelle Assay, 28th January

Christopher Alden’s Victorian-era Rigoletto still divides opinions, despite top-notch performances all around in this Toronto revival.

***11

Canadian Opera's Orfeo returns elegant, restrained and very satisfying

John Gilks, 9th October

The restrained beauty of Robert Carsen’s production of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice is matched by musical elegance in its revival current revival at the Four Seasons Centre.

*****

Canadian Opera Company opens season with Roméo et Juliette

John Gilks, 27th September

Amy Lane’s production of Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette at the COC is eye-catching and enjoyable but doesn’t offer the same level of insight as her Faust last season.

***11

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Edward Sava-Segal

Edward has been living in New York for the last 25 years, one of the reasons being the extraordinarily rich cultural life in this city. He has studied piano and classical music in his early years. He switched later on to computer science and data architecture but he kept an unwavering interest in following the classical music phenomenon here in New York and in his travels. Edward occasionally reviews fine arts events for the most prestigious literary magazine in Romania, his home country.

Pinned butterflies, but outstanding singing in Canadian Opera Company’s Così fan tutte