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Operacanadavolume LV $5.95 Parables of public and private funding in tales from two cities Spring 2014 OperaCanadaVolume lV $5.95 GrOUP DYNamIcs An insider’s guide to the art of singing in the opera chorus Opera from Community On Stage Rayanne Dupuis the Truck Affairs Mark S. Doss How live Met Vancouver Opera Leslie Ann Bradley stagings get to sets strategy to build Robert Clark the silver screen a new audience Shirin Eskandani Contents opera Canada Spring 2014 20 group dynamiCS An insider’s guide to the colorful working world of the opera chorus. By Lydia perovic´ 26 opera from the truCk Film director Barbara Willis Sweete explains how she translates Metropolitan Opera productions from stage to silver screen. By Christopher Hoile 32 Community outreaCh Vancouver Opera sets strategy to build a new audience in a changing world. By rosemary Cunningham departments 4 Editor’s notebook 5 Opera in the news 8 Artists on Stage: rayanne Dupuis, Mark S. Doss Leslie Ann Bradley, robert Clark and Shirin Eskandani 14 new productions/new roles: How Winnipeg’s Michael Cavanagh found his voice as a stage director 16 Letters from Linz and Montreal: Two tales of public and privatge funding 34 Calendar: live performances and Saturday transmissions 36 Opera in review 56 Opera at Home: Jon Vickers and Louis Quilico live in Otello, Winterreise from gerald Finley, robert Carsen and Michael Levine stage Die Zauberflöte, Doug Macnaughton in recital …and more reVieWS 62 Final Take: music soprano Sondra radvanovsky madrid can’t live without Daniel Okulitch as Ennis del Mar in the Teatro Real pre- miere of Charles Wuorinen’s Brokeback Mountain See page 36 BoaRD OF DIRECTORS EDITOR ADVERTISING OperaCanada CHAIR: Stephen Clarke Wayne Gooding & MARKETING ENQUIRIES Lasana Barrow [email protected] 416-363-0396 Nadia Formigoni [email protected] FOUNDING EDITOR SENIOR CONSULTING EDITOR David Hamilton (ex officio) Ruby Mercer Neil Crory Damiano Pietropaolo Cover: Collage of production Volume LV Nabeela Ratansi ASSOCIATE EDITORS photos from Canadian Opera Number 1 Alia Rosenstock Paula Citron, Joseph So Company/Michael Cooper Edition 223 $5.95 Donald Rumball & Chris Hutcheson ART DIRECTION AND DESIGN Date of issue: Spring 2014 Richard Turp Fresh Art & Design Inc. PUBLISHER James Warrillow (ex officio) Opera Canada Publications Rev. Edward Jackman (Honorary) CIRCULATION operacanada.ca Wayne Gooding (ex officio) Abacus 1-800-222-5097 PHOTO: JAVIER DEL REAL PHOTO: JAVIER Spring 2014 3 Notebook BY WAYNE GOODING Spring 2014 ★ We had already gone At press time, the company to press with the last issue when was in fact looking again to see word came that our review of if there may be any way of con- OperaCanada Verdi’s last opera, Falstaff, would tinuing (it had already cut down also be our final review from the number of productions and Opera Hamilton. Follow- performances given annually). Publisher’s Circle (donations of $1,000 or more) BMO Financial Group, Jacqueline Desmarais, David ing a debilitating bankruptcy But even if this turns into a near- Giles and Carol Derk, Wayne Gooding, Father Edward and considerable downsizing death experience rather than the Jackman, The Jackman Foundation, John B. 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