Canadian Opera Company’s new season includes world premiere of Canuck work
TORONTO – The world premiere of Quebec-born composer Barbara Monk Feldman’s “Pyramus and Thisbe” is among the works set for the Canadian Opera Company’s 2015/2016 season.
“Pyramus and Thisbe” is based on the tragic myth of the eponymous ill-fated lovers, who inspired Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.”
Canadian mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabo will play Thisbe alongside Canuck baritone Phillip Addis as Pyramus.
The production will be presented with the COC premieres of Claudio Monteverdi’s early Baroque classics “Lamento d’Arianna” and “Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda.”
Director Christopher Alden will weave the three operas together.
The 65th season will open with a new production of Giuseppe Verdi’s “La Traviata.”
Other productions in the lineup include the continuation of the COC’s “Ring” operas, a new COC production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” and a revival of the COC production of Georges Bizet’s “Carmen.”
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