Announcing Toronto City Opera’s 2018-19 Performing Season
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
DECEMBER 6, 2018 @ 7:30pm
DECEMBER 7, 2018 @ 7:30pm
DECEMBER 9, 2018 @ 2:00pm
(Sung in Italian, with English surtitles)
Mozart's commedia per musica about the tyranny of social inequality. Opera that transcends the lighthearted innocence of opera buffa. Ageless themes of vengeance and forgiveness, freedom and wisdom, and love conquering lust.
Cast
Figaro – Dylan Wright
Susanna – Brittany Rae
Count Almaviva – Peter Bass
Countess Almaviva – Jonelle Sills
Cherubino – Lillian Brooks
Basilio/Don Curzio – Jeffrey Smith
Marcellina – Daniella Theresia
Bartolo – Gabriel Sanchez-Ortega
Barbarina – Janelle Lapalme
Antonio – Austin Larusson
BOX OFFICE
1-800-838-3006
LA TRAVIATA
by Giuseppe Verdi
MARCH 28, 2019 @ 7:30pm
MARCH 29, 2019 @ 7:30pm
MARCH 31, 2019 @ 2:00pm
(Sung in Italian, with English surtitles)
La Traviata tells the story of the tragic love between the courtesan Violetta and the young aristocrat Alfredo. The story also depicts the hypocrisy of upper-class society which plunges the two lovers to a sad ending.
Cast
Alfredo Germont – Kijong Wi
Violetta Valéry – Beth Hagerman
Gastone de Letorières – Jeffrey Smith
Flora Bervoix – Veronika Anissimova
Barone Douphol – Anthony Rodrigues
Annina – Dallas Chorley
Giorgio Germont – Handaya Rusli
Dottore Grenvil – TBA
BOX OFFICE
1-800-838-3006
Toronto City Opera Fall Fundraiser 2018
Please join us for A Moment In Paradise!
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4
2–5:30pm
COLUMBUS CENTRE
901 Lawrence Avenue West
Toronto ON M6A 1C3
Concert to begin at 2:30 pm, with a reception to follow
Our soloists and chorus will be performing selections from Mozart's Le Nozze de Figaro and Verdi's La Traviata, as a preview of our 2018-2019 season, as well as other well known Italian arias and choruses.
If you are unable to attend, please consider making a donation
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Toronto City Opera is Proud to Announce That Alaina Viau Has Joined Our Artistic Team For the 2018-19 Season as Stage Director
Alaina is a daring young opera director, and production manager based in Toronto. She is the founder and Artistic Director of indie opera company Loose Tea Music Theatre where she collaborates with DJ's, projection artist and filmmakers to produce genre breaking productions. With them she has directed re-imagined contemporary versions of Dissociative Me (Gounod's Faust), Love in the Age of AutoCorrect (Mozart/Stravinsky) and La Tragedie de Carmen (Bizet).
Currently she is leading a re-focus of Bizet’s Carmen as #YesAllWomen that discusses current social issues like gender equality, class society and the impacts of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Alaina developed an improv opera show called “Whose Opera is it Anyway” that has toured to sold out houses and has a monthly show in Toronto. The summer of 2018 saw Loose Tea partnering with Toronto Summer Music Festival on a fully staged version of L'Histoire du Soldat at Koerner Hall.
Opera Going Toronto says “Loose Tea Music Theatre casts a disproportionately long artistic shadow…is a prime example of what makes this compact company well worth watching ...”
Loose Tea was invited to perform for the Rhubarb Festival 2016 with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre with Trance Symphony No.5, a Trance/Classical Dance experience of Beethoven’s popular Symphony no.5 with live orchestra and trace DJ. Musical Toronto has said “If this is any indication of the direction of Loose Tea in the future – you’ll want to see what they come up with next”.
Alaina has directed and designed HausMusik for Tafelmusik Baroque Chamber Orchestra and was Artistic Director for two season for SOPAC Ottawa presenting Suor Angelica, Pagliacci and Cendrillon to critical acclaim. She also directed/designed L’isola Disabitata for Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra in Ottawa for their 40th anniversary.
Coming up in 2019, Alaina is Resident Stage Director for Toronto City Opera and will be premiering a new chamber opera about the lost and edited pages from Anne Frank’s diary with Loose Tea.
Alaina works at the Toronto Symphony Orchestra as the Assistant Production Manager and is a member of Indie Opera Toronto.
Chorus Registration
Registration for the fall 2018 session of the Toronto City Opera Chorus is now closed.
Your name can be placed on a waiting list by emailing your request to info@torontocityopera.com.
Thank you for your continued interest in the Toronto City Opera.
Tickets
BOX OFFICE
1-800-838-3006
Venue
AL GREEN THEATRE
Miles Nadal Community Centre
750 Spadina Avenue, Toronto
The Al Green Theatre is a 285 seat facility inside of the vibrant Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre. Located at the corner of Bloor Street and Spadina Avenue in Toronto, the theatre is fully accessible by both subway lines, with ample municipal parking and a number of great shops and restaurants close by.
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