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16-2463 Canadian Opera Company Program Ad_Ev1.indd 1 2016-10-18 11:54 AM CONTENTS A MESSAGE FROM GENERAL DIRECTOR 4 WHAT’S PLAYING: ALEXANDER NEEF THE MAGIC FLUTE 10 FLUTE FLASHBACK Developing emerging talent is a 65 YEARS OF MAGIC priority at the COC, going back

14 GET TO KNOW to 1980 when General Director ANDREW HAJI Lotfi Mansouri established the Ensemble Studio. Since then, more 16 WHAT’S PLAYING: GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG than 220 artists have gone through the program and call the COC 22 GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG AND THE home. As the COC continues to TWILIGHT OF OUR IGNORANCE grow and cement its reputation as Q&A WITH DEBUS AND GOERKE one of the world’s foremost opera 24 producers, we want our young artist 27 GIVING THE FUTURE OF OPERA programs to grow alongside us and THE REAL EXPERIENCE continue to expand our efforts to 29 OUR NEW ROOMMATES: nurture the next generation of opera AGAINST THE GRAIN professionals. Of course, our Ensemble Studio 32 BACKSTAGE AND BEYOND This fall, we launched a new pilot artists continue to be wonderful ambassadors for the COC and 34 BIOGRAPHIES: THE MAGIC FLUTE project to establish a residency program providing resources Canada’s opera scene as they 41 BIOGRAPHIES: and mentorship opportunities to embark on international careers. GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG emerging opera companies. Our They work with some of the best instructors in the business 46 THE REWARDS OF FRIENDSHIP first Company-in-Residence is AND SPONSORSHIP Toronto’s Against the Grain Theatre throughout the season and you (AtG), an indie collective known can witness the results of their 47 A GIFT FOR THE COC ARCHIVES for their innovative and accessible rigorous training when they take to the mainstage of the Four 48 LOOKING TO LOUIS RIEL productions in unusual venues. This residency program is a formalization Seasons Centre for An Evening 56 MANY THANKS TO OUR of a long-time mentorship that with the Ensemble Studio: Music SUPPORTERS has existed between the COC and of Handel and Mozart, a special showcase of operatic scenes on 62 PATRON INFORMATION AtG. Our hope with this residency AND POLICIES program is to put a system in place February 23. that helps nurture young companies as they grow and seek to establish a Canada may have a relatively sustainable future. We also welcome small population but our pool GO SCENT FREE our fourth COC Orchestra Academy of operatic talent is limitless. In consideration of patrons cohort this winter. Five musicians For opera to continue thriving with allergies, please avoid from the University of Toronto, The as an art form in this country, wearing perfumed beauty Glenn Gould School and, new this we must invest in our young products and fragrances. year, the Schulich School of Music at singers, instrumentalists, McGill University will be mentored directors, designers, crew by COC Orchestra members, members, and administrators. COC Program is published three times a participate in rehearsals, and gain They are the future of opera year by the Canadian Opera Company. All and we will continue doing our rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in real performance experience by part without written consent is prohibited. performing at the 2017/2018 season part, and growing our programs, Contents copyright Canadian Opera to ensure that they can form Company. Direct all advertising inquiries to launch event on January 12 and [email protected]. in the pit on opening night of solid foundations for successful careers. Program edited by Claudine Domingue, Götterdämmerung, as well as in their Director of Public Relations; Kristin McKinnon, own concert as part of the COC’s Publicist and Publications Co-ordinator; and, Free Concert Series in the Richard Read more about our training Gianna Wichelow, Senior Manager, Creative programs on page 27, and our and Publications. Layout by Gianna Wichelow. Bradshaw Amphitheatre on January 26. All information is correct at time of printing. partnership with AtG on page 29. Photo credits are on page 61.

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Ambur Braid as the Queen of the Night and Simone Osborne as Pamina in the Ensemble Studio performance of the COC’s The Magic Flute, 2011.

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Opera in two acts w Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder Edited for the New Mozart Edition (Neue Mozart-Ausgabe) by Gernot Gruber and Alfred Orel Used by arrangement with European American Distributors LLC, Sole US and Canadian agent for Baerenreiter, publisher and copyright owner. First performance: Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden, Vienna, 1791

COC PRODUCTION Last performed by the COC in 2011 w January 19, 28, 29, February 1, 3, 4, 7, 10, 16, 18, 19, 24, 2017 Sung in German with English SURTITLES™

THE CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM (in order of vocal appearance)

Tamino Pamina First Armed Man Revival Director Andrew Haji^ Elena TsallagovaD Owen McCausland^ Ashlie Corcoran^ Owen McCausland^* Kirsten MacKinnonD* Andrew Haji^* Assistant Director First Lady First Spirit Second Armed Man Rob Kempson Aviva Fortunata^ Sophie Filip-Vicari** Neil Craighead^ Set and Costume Designer Second Lady Second Spirit The Speaker Myung Hee Cho Emily D’Angelo† Ella Farlinger** Martin Gantner Lighting Designer Third Lady Third Spirit Papagena Scott Zielinski Lauren Segal^ Clara Moir** Jacqueline Woodley^ Chorus Master Papageno First Priest Sandra Horst^ Joshua Hopkins Charles Sy† Conductor Stage Manager Phillip Addis* D Second Priest Bernard Labadie Stephanie Marrs Queen of the Night Bruno Roy† Director Ambur Braid^ SURTITLES™ Producer Sarastro Diane Paulus Gunta Dreifelds Monostatos Goran JuricD Michael Colvin^ Matt Boehler*

*Jan. 29, Feb. 3, 16, 18, 24, 2017 ** The First, Second and Third Spirits are members of the Canadian Children’s Opera Company

Andrew Haji’s performance is generously sponsored by Marjorie and Roy Linden Ambur Braid’s performance is generously sponsored by Peter M. Deeb Emily D’Angelo’s performance is generously sponsored by Marcia Lewis Brown Charles Sy’s performance is generously sponsored by Peter and Hélène Hunt Bruno Roy’s performance is generously sponsored by Catherine Fauquier Sandra Horst and the COC Chorus are generously underwritten by Tim and Frances Price

D COC Debut † Current member of the COC Ensemble Studio ^ Graduate of COC Ensemble Studio Program information is correct at time of printing. All casting is subject to change.

ACT I 70 minutes INTERMISSION 25 minutes ACT II 80 minutes

Performance time is approximately two hours and 55 minutes. CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 5 NOTES labyrinth that covers the grounds of the estate. The theatricality of their journey is enhanced by the mysteries In creating this production of The Magic Flute—one of the of the outdoor world beneath the cover of night where they most beloved of all Mozart operas—the creative team has act out the rituals of the drama. All distinctions between focused on what makes the story so engagingly theatrical fantasy and reality fade away as their pageant lasts for audiences of every generation. We have sought to through the night until dawn. explore the layers of comedy, fairytale, and myth that come together in live performance. The entire opera has been For Enlightenment thinkers, journeying through re-imagined as a play-within-a-play—a performance being the architectural spaces created by a labyrinth held created before our eyes by the members of a household a metaphorical significance, as well as an aesthetic and their guests, in celebration of the name day of the appeal. The opera references the rites and rituals of opera’s heroine, Pamina. It is something out of the world of the Freemasons, the Enlightenment society in which Shakespearean comedy, where the concepts of the theatre Mozart and the librettist Emanuel Schikaneder were and the stage are presented for what they can reveal to lodge brothers. In Masonry, a journey through a maze us about our own real-world natures. Pamina and Tamino symbolized the passage from death to re-birth, as well begin their journey to love and enlightenment as living as the cyclical progression from night to day. In our and breathing actors treading the boards of an outdoor production, especially important is the journey of the stage. heroine Pamina, whose admission to the Temple of Wisdom and participation in the trials by fire and water is We have set the action in 1791, the year in which the essential to the outcome, for only in the union of the male opera was first performed, against the backdrop of the and female do the characters successfully pass through the Enlightenment. The entire play-within-a-play is presented trials. In this complex world of imagination, we hope The in the open space of a nobleman’s garden, itself a place of Magic Flute will become a new living experience for every enchantment and symbolic power during this historical member of our audience as well. period. As the drama unfolds, the actors leave the theatre behind and continue to enact their story in an elaborate Diane Paulus, director (from the COC’s 2011 house program)

On the small, beautiful stage that is the set-within-a-set in the play-within-a-play, Michael Schade’s Tamino was pursued by a three-headed serpent when the COC premiered this production of The Magic Flute in 2011, directed by Diane Paulus.

6 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 SYNOPSIS ACT II Near the temple Sarastro leads a prayer to Isis and Osiris, ACT I to assist Pamina and Tamino. Prince Tamino is pursued by a serpent. He collapses and is saved by Three Ladies who slay the serpent and leave to Tamino and Papageno begin the first test, during which tell their queen of his arrival in their land. Tamino revives they must remain silent. The Three Ladies try to tempt as Papageno, a bird catcher, enters. When Papageno them to talk, only succeeding with Papageno. claims responsibility for slaying the serpent, the Three Ladies reappear and padlock his mouth as punishment Pamina is saved from Monostatos with the appearance of for lying. They give Tamino a portrait of a young woman, the Queen of the Night who demands that her daughter with whom Tamino falls immediately in love. She is kill Sarastro. Alone, she is once again accosted by Pamina, the Queen of the Night’s daughter, and captive Monostatos, but Sarastro enters and chases the slave of Sarastro. The Queen herself appears and tells Tamino away. Sarastro comforts Pamina, telling her that love, not that if he rescues her daughter, Pamina will be his forever. vengeance, lives in the walls of the Temple. The Three Ladies remove Papageno’s padlock, giving him a set of magic chimes with instructions to accompany In the Temple a hooded crone appears to Papageno, Tamino. The Ladies give Tamino a magic flute which will claiming that she is his sweetheart. She disappears and the protect him from danger. Three Spirits guide Tamino and Three Spirits appear, returning the magic flute and chimes Papageno on their journey. to Tamino and Papageno. Pamina enters but Tamino will not speak to her, leaving her heartbroken. In Sarastro’s palace Pamina is pursued by the lustful slave Monostatos. Papageno saves her and tells Pamina that In the inner sanctum of the temple, Sarastro calls for her mother has sent a handsome prince to rescue her, one Tamino and Pamina to be brought forth. Tamino has two who is already in love with her. Pamina is overjoyed and more trials to go, the most dangerous ones. together they reflect on the importance of love. The old crone reappears to Papageno. He tells her he’d The Three Spirits bring Tamino to the Temples of rather have her than nothing. She removes her disguise, Wisdom, Reason and Nature. The Speaker enters from the revealing a beautiful young woman. She’s immediately Temple of Wisdom and informs him that the Queen of whisked away, as Papageno is still unworthy of her. the Night is the villain, not Sarastro, as he will understand when he enters the temple. He leaves in search of Pamina is prevented from taking her life by the Three Papageno, who, with the help of his magic chimes, saves Spirits and is reunited joyfully with Tamino, in time to take Pamina once more from Monostatos. Sarastro enters his last two trials with him, those of fire and water. They and tells Pamina he cannot let her return to her mother. emerge triumphant, earning admission to the order as Tamino is brought in and he and Pamina joyfully meet initiates. at last. Tamino and Papageno prepare to be tested for admittance to the brotherhood. The Three Spirits prevent Papageno from taking his own life, reminding him to play his chimes. Papagena appears INTERMISSION and the two lovers are together at last. The Queen of the Night attempts to seize power from Sarastro but is defeated. All celebrate the triumph of Tamino and Pamina.

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VIOLIN I VIOLA FLUTE TROMBONE Marie Bérard, Concertmaster Keith Hamm, Principal Douglas Stewart, Principal Charles Benaroya, Principal The Concertmaster’s chair has Joshua Greenlaw, Assistant Shelley Brown Ian Cowie been endowed in perpetuity by Principal Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Carolyn Blackwell* PICCOLO BASS TROMBONE Aaron Schwebel, Associate Catherine Gray Shelley Brown Herbert Poole Concertmaster Sheila Jaffé Jamie Kruspe, Assistant Beverley Spotton OBOE TIMPANI Concertmaster Yosef Tamir Mark Rogers, Principal Michael Perry, Principal Anne Armstrong Lesley Young Sandra Baron CELLO PERCUSSION Bethany Bergman Bryan Epperson, Principal (leave CLARINET Trevor Tureski, Principal Nancy Kershaw of absence) James T. Shields, Principal (leave Dominique Laplante Alastair Eng, Associate Principal, of absence) KEYBOARD GLOCKENSPIEL Yakov Lerner Acting Principal Michael Shannon Jayne Maddison Paul Widner, Assistant Principal CLARINET AND BASSET HORN Neria Mayer Maurizio Baccante, Acting Dominic Desautels, Acting Assistant Principal Principal* VIOLIN II Peter Cosbey* Colleen Cook MUSIC LIBRARIAN Paul Zevenhuizen, Principal Olga Laktionova (leave of Wayne Vogan Csaba Koczó, Assistant Principal absence) BASSOON James Aylesworth Elaine Thompson Eric Hall, Principal ASSISTANT MUSIC LIBRARIAN Elizabeth Johnston Elizabeth Gowen (leave of Ondrej Golias Dominique Laplante BASS absence) Jayne Maddison Alan Molitz, Principal (leave of William Cannaway* STAGE LIBRARIAN Aya Miyagawa absence) Paul Langley Louise Tardif (leave of absence) Tony Flynt, Acting Principal* HORN Marianne Urke Robert Speer, Assistant Principal Mikhailo Babiak, Principal PERSONNEL MANAGER Joanna Zabrowarna Tom Hazlitt Gary Pattison Ian Cowie Paul Langley TRUMPET *extra musician Alper Çoker, Acting Principal* Robert Weymouth

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY CHORUS

SOPRANOS MEZZO-SOPRANOS TENORS BARITONES/BASSES Lindsay Barrett Marianne Bindig Vanya Abrahams Kenneth Baker Andrea Cerswell Susan Black Stephen Bell James Baldwin Margaret Evans Sandra Boyes Taras Chmil Jesse Clark Ilona Karan Wendy Hatala Foley Sam Chung Bruno Cormier Alexandra Lennox-Pomeroy Erica Iris Huang Stephen Erickson Michael Downie Ingrid Martin Lilian Kilianski John Kriter Jason Nedecky Eve Rachel McLeod Kathryn Knapp Jason Lamont Michael Sproule Jennifer Robinson Anne McWatt James Leatch Jan Vaculik Teresa van der Hoeven Karen Olinyk Stephen McClare Gene Wu Ilana Zarankin Marianne Sasso Eric Olsen Michael York

MUSIC STAFF ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS UNDERSTUDIES Rachel Andrist (Head Coach) Lesley Abarquez Second Lady Lauren Eberwein Michael Shannon Michael Barrs Third Lady Lindsay Ammann Stéphane Mayer (Ensemble Studio Intern Coach) Monostatos John Kriter APPRENTICE STAGE MANAGER First Spirit Ella Farlinger** ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR Alice Ferreyra Second Spirit Maddy Ringo-Stauble** Ingmar Beck Third Spirit Nathan Niang** ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER First Priest Aaron Sheppard GERMAN DICTION COACH Davida Tkach Second Priest Jan Vaculik Adreana Braun Chris Malkowski First Armed Man Charles Sy Aaron Sheppard Second Armed Man Michael Uloth The Speaker Neil Craighead Papagena Danika Lorèn

** The First, Second and Third Spirits are members of the Canadian Children’s Opera Company

ACTOR Sung Chung

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 9 FLUTE FLASHBACK 65 YEARS OF MAGIC AT THE COC BY KRISTIN McKINNON

This season marks the 65th anniversary of the COC’s very first presentation ofThe Magic Flute. Since 1952, the COC has presented at least seven productions of Mozart’s final and most popular opera, including an exclusive Ensemble Studio production and a school tour adaptation for young people. Join us for a trip down memory lane as we revisit some of the COC’s most memorable Magic Flute moments.

1952 The COC’s first ever production ofThe Magic Flute took place in February 1952 at the Royal Alexandra Theatre as part of the company’s third season, back when it was known as the Opera Festival Association of Toronto. Directed by the COC’s co- founder and, later, artistic director Herman Geiger-Torel, the opera was sung in English and starred Mary Morrison as Pamina, Robert Price as Tamino, and Lois Marshall as the Queen of the Night. Don Garrard, one of the high priests, would also go on to enjoy an international career.

1977 Right: the Three Ladies, played by (left to right) Jean MacPhail, Carol Anne Curry and Claudette Leblanc, were an imposing presence in the COC’s 1977 production directed by Bliss Herbert.

Far right: Peter Barcza’s Papageno in 1977 was especially bird-like, while Patricia Wells’ Pamina radiated 1970s glamour.

FLUTE MEMORIES OF THE 2017 CAST Our cast shared some of their COC. Watching this incredible—and ELENA TSALLAGOVA (Pamina) favourite memories of The Magic incredibly charming—production made I was 12 when I first heardThe Magic Flute and the characters they play. me even more excited to be pursuing Flute. I wasn’t familiar with opera To read more of their thoughts, visit opera as a career. Now, to be able to and had never been to one before. My coc.ca/Parlando. perform in that very same production, parents are musicians and I suppose I couldn’t be more thrilled! The Magic they knew the best way to introduce a ANDREW HAJI (Tamino) Flute transports the audience into child to the complex art form of opera. The first time I saw The Magic a fantasy world, where anything is I saw my first opera on DVD and it Flute was back in 2011 here at the possible. It’s sort of like the Harry was a famous recording from the Met Potter series, in that it gives your mind in 1991, with Kathleen Battle singing

10 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 the license to imagine and to dream. Pamina and James Levine conducting. 1982 Celebrated illustrator Maurice Sendak, best known for the classic children’s story Where the Wild Things Are, co-created the whimsical set and costume designs for the COC’s 1982 production. This production also marked Ben Heppner’s COC debut, then a member of the Ensemble Studio, as the First Armed Man. Right: Claudia Cummings as the Queen of the Night and Costanza Cuccaro as Pamina. Far right: Theodore Baerg as Papageno with Shawna Farrell as Papagena and the Three Spirits.

1989 This COC production was directed by Lotfi Mansouri, the company’s then- general director, with majestic sets and costumes designed by Thierry Bosquet.

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I remember I watched it breathless next time I get to perform The Magic captivating. Villains are appealing and and now I can listen to Flute with no Flute, it’s with the COC and I’m now the Queen of the Night is an incredible less great anticipation—each time I singing Pamina. Flute is a favourite lady. Yes, she has some pretty famous discover something new. not only because of the music. The high notes, but she’s a woman who characters really make the show—I’d go is obsessed with power and that can KIRSTEN MACKINNON (Pamina) for Papageno alone. He can be such a be pretty ugly. We all have that desire The Magic Flute was my very first quirky weirdo and I completely dig it! inside of us, so it’s nice to play the dark opera. I sang one of the three spirits characters to keep it in check. Mwa ha ha! with Vancouver Opera when I was AMBUR BRAID (The Queen of the Continued on next page 10 years old and had a blast! I can’t Night) I first heard some ofThe Magic believe what a dream it is that the very Flute in the movie Amadeus and it was CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 11 1993 This 1993 incarnation, directed by Martha Clarke, proved to be one of the COC’s more polarizing productions, but brought together two long-time COC favourites, then at the beginning of their careers: tenor Michael Schade and baritone Russell Braun (at far left), playing Tamino and Papageno. Also pictured are (l–r) Tanya Parrish, Norine Burgess and Monica Whicher as the Three Ladies, and Valerie Gonzalez (background) as Papagena.

2005 The 2005 Ensemble Studio production, which commemorated the 25th anniversary of the prestigious training program, got a little wild with a lion-taming Tamino, played by tenor Victor Micallef (now one of the three “Tenors”). At the time, this was the program’s largest production to-date. It was directed by Andrew Porter, and performed in the MacMillan Theatre at the University of Toronto.

JOSHUA HOPKINS (Papageno) Next Generation, which I watched that doesn’t take itself too seriously. The first time I saw The Magic Flute religiously growing up. I thought the I love how simply Papageno wants to I was transported. It was only the concept really worked! live his life, and how honest he is about third live opera I had ever seen and I his hopes and desires. I think this is was lucky enough to watch my wife PHILLIP ADDIS (Papageno) I believe the life Mozart himself wished he could (then girlfriend) sing Second Lady in my first experience of The Magic have had. a Toronto-based young artist summer Flute was the Ingmar Bergman program. The production was set in, film, probably on PBS. The first live GORAN JURIC (Sarastro) I first saw of all things, the Star Trek universe. performance I saw would have been The Magic Flute performed at the Papageno’s character was recast as by Opera Atelier, here in Toronto. In Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb Data, from the series Star Trek: The both cases, the tone of the storytelling while I was still in high school. acknowledged the humanity behind I’m so sad that the Queen of the Night the theatrics. It’s hard to resist genius and Sarastro don’t have a duetto. Can 12 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 2011 It would be 18 years before the COC staged The Magic Flute on the mainstage again, with Michael Schade (below, top) returning to reprise the role of Tamino in the company’s new production by Diane Paulus, revived this season. It was the firstFlute to grace the Four Seasons Centre stage. Below, bottom: Isabel Bayrakdarian was Pamina and Mikhail Petrenko was Flagship Store Sarastro. 60 Bloor St. West (On Bay St.) 416-964-7070

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What is your go to song for karaoke? “Circle of Life” from The Lion King

What is the best advice you've been given? Follow your heart

If you weren’t an opera singer, you would be...? An IT consultant

What is your dream operatic role, regardless of voice type? Rodolfo from La Bohème

What book have you read again and again? In 2015 Andrew got to sing his dream Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone role at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis! iPhone or Android? iPhone up until now, but Android is growing on me!

You can only watch one movie/TV show for the rest of your life. What movie/TV show would that be? Star Trek: The Next Generation

If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go? New Zealand

Sequels happen all the time in movies. What sequel to an opera would you like to see happen? The Marriage of Figaro II: Basilio’s Revenge

Who are three people, alive or dead or fictional, that you would like to have dinner with? Luciano Pavarotti, Steve Jobs, and Captain Jean-Luc Picard

What is the farthest you have been from home? Athens, Greece

What's your favorite sports team? Any Toronto team, as long as they're winning.

Any pre-performance or post-performance rituals? Rest, water, and deep breathing.

If you were in a boy band, what would the band’s name be? I was in a boy band! We called ourselves “Shades of Black.” Don’t ask me why.

What is one thing people would be surprised to know about you? I have webbed toes. Shades of Black What would be the title of your autobiography? in their heyday! A Pirate's Life for Me—Living on the High Cs

What’s something that you have always wanted to try but you’ve been too scared to do? Eating a durian.

What is one piece of advice for Tamino? Start learning how to play the flute!

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John Fanning as Gunther, Joni Henson as Gutrune and Mats Almgren as Hagen in the COC’s 2006 production of Götterdämmerung, part of the company’s first complete Ring Cycle, the first staged production in the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in September that year. The Four Seasons Centre is the first opera house to mount the Ring Cycle as its first production since the cycle had its world premiere at Bayreuth in 1876.

16 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 GÖTTERDÄ MMERUNG BY RICHARD WAGNER

PRODUCTION ORIGINALLY MADE POSSIBLE BY KOLTER COMMUNITIES

Opera in a prologue and three acts w Libretto by Richard Wagner First performance: Festspiel, Bayreuth, as part of the Ring Cycle, August 17, 1876

COC PRODUCTION Last performed by the COC in 2006 w February 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 25, 2017 Sung in German with English SURTITLES™

THE CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM (in order of vocal appearance)

First Norn/Flosshilde Hagen Assistant Director Lindsay Ammann Ain AngerD Marilyn Gronsdal Second Norn/Waltraute Alberich Set and Costume Designer Karen Cargill Robert Pomakov Michael Levine Third Norn/Gutrune Woglinde Lighting Designer Ileana Montalbetti^ Danika LorènD† David Finn Brünnhilde Wellgunde Choreographer Christine Goerke Lauren EberweinD† Patti Powell Siegfried Chorus Master Andreas SchagerD Conductor Sandra Horst^ Johannes Debus Gunther Stage Manager Martin Gantner Director Kate Porter Tim Albery SURTITLES™ Producer Gunta Dreifelds

Johannes Debus is generously underwritten by George and Kathy Dembroski Andreas Schager’s performance is generously sponsored by Kristine Vikmanis and Denton Creighton Ain Anger’s performance is generously sponsored by an anonymous donor Christine Goerke’s performance is generously sponsored by Jack Whiteside Danika Lorèn’s performance is generously sponsored by COVC Jean A. Chalmers Award Lauren Eberwein’s performance is generously sponsored by Brian Wilks, Marjorie and Roy Linden Sandra Horst and the COC Chorus are generously underwritten by Tim and Frances Price

D COC Debut † Current member of the COC Ensemble Studio ^ Graduate of COC Ensemble Studio Program information is correct at time of printing. All casting is subject to change.

PROLOGUE AND ACT I 120 minutes INTERMISSION 35 minutes ACT II 60 minutes INTERMISSION 25 minutes ACT III 80 minutes Performance time is approximately five hours and 20 minutes. CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 17 NOTES SYNOPSIS

With Götterdämmerung, the fourth part of the Ring PRELUDE Cycle, all the curses attached to the ring come to fruition. Three Norns spin the Rope of Fate, which binds the past, Siegfried dies at the hand of Alberich’s son, Hagen, and present and future. They recall the time when a young Brünnhilde goes to her death as the reign of Wotan and Wotan visited the World Ash Tree, seeking wisdom from his fellow gods comes to an end in the flames of Valhalla. the well beneath the tree. He paid with the loss of an eye, The ring itself returns to the Rhinemaidens. It has been a and took as his reward a spear broken from the tree itself, long journey since the beginning of Das Rheingold, when upon which he inscribed his contract with nature. When Alberich stole the gold from the Rhinemaidens, out of the spear shattered, the well dried up and the tree withered which he fashioned the ring. and died. Wotan’s warriors have chopped down the tree and gathered the wood around Valhalla. Wotan will soon In Götterdämmerung, the next generation repeats all the set the world aflame. As they wonder what will happen errors of greed and lust for power committed by their next, the rope frays and breaks. Their power gone, they parents. And the one oasis of real love, between Siegfried descend into the earth in search of their mother, the earth and Brünnhilde, is shattered by his naivety in the face of goddess Erda. As dawn breaks, Siegfried sets out from his Hagen’s relentless pursuit of vengeance and of the ring. home in search of adventure. Brünnhilde bids him a loving farewell. As he departs, Siegfried gives Brünnhilde the As the generations have gone by, we have travelled a ring. century or more from the late-19th century world of Das Rheingold, hiding its hypocrisies behind a screen of ACT I patriarchal, empire-building certainty, to the more overt, Scene i: In the Hall of the Gibichungs, where Gunther and mafia-like duplicity, greed, and amorality of the modern his sister Gutrune rule, Gunther asks for advice from his corporate world. Gunther and his sister Gutrune, with their half-brother Hagen, the illegitimate son of Alberich. Both half-brother Hagen acting as their malign “consigliere,” Gunther and his sister are unmarried, and unsure of where run an empire that demands the unthinking loyalty of to find suitable matches. Hagen suggests Brünnhilde for their people. Yet in their private lives they are as unhappy Gunther and Siegfried for Gutrune. He tells of Siegfried’s and dysfunctional as all the preceding families of the great feats and convinces the siblings to seduce him into Ring have been; these siblings are desperate for love but marriage with a magical potion that will make him forget unaware that it cannot be found by bribes and deception. other women and fall in love with Gutrune. Then it will And it is from Gunther and Gutrune’s pathetic attempt to be easy to persuade him to help persuade Brünnhilde to buy for themselves the love of Brünnhilde and Siegfried marry Gunther. that the spiral of descent begins to the final destruction of everything that Wotan had wanted to achieve.

Tim Albery, director

A scene from Das Rheingold in the COC’s 2006 production, in which the model of Valhalla—yet to be built and subsequently destroyed—is shown.

1618 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 On his journey Siegfried arrives at Gibichung Hall and the with Brünnhilde while in disguise, joins in Hagen’s plan plan is put into motion. to murder him. Hagen suggests they make it look like a hunting accident. As the three contemplate the hero’s Scene ii: Siegfried introduces himself to the Gibichungs, downfall, Siegfried and Gutrune’s wedding procession and shows them his sword, Nothung, and the magic passes by. helmet, the Tarnhelm. The ring, he says, is with Brünnhilde. Gutrune hands Siegfried the magic drink. As he drinks INTERMISSION it, he forgets Brünnhilde entirely and falls in love with Gutrune. Siegfried volunteers to help Gunther find a wife. ACT III Gunther suggests they seek out Brünnhilde, and Siegfried Scene i: The Rhinemaidens Woglinde, Wellgunde and agrees. They swear a bond of blood-brotherhood, and drink Flosshilde, lament the loss of their gold. Siegfried, out a toast to their new friendship. As they depart, Hagen hunting with Hagen and the Gibichung men, comes across congratulates himself on the plan he has set in motion, them. The Rhinemaidens attempt to seduce Siegfried believing it will allow him to recover the ring that Wotan into handing over the ring, but without success. They tell stole from his father. him the ring is cursed, that he will die later that same day if he does not hand it over, but Siegfried doesn’t believe Scene iii: Brünnhilde is visited by her sister, the Valkyrie them. The Rhinemaidens go in search of Brünnhilde as the Waltraute, who tells her that Wotan has been quite lost hunting party arrives. since he imprisoned Brünnhilde in the ring of fire. He no longer sends the Valkyries to battle; he no longer seeks to Scene ii: The men ask Siegfried about his exploits. Is it rule the gods. He sits on his throne, clutching his shattered true he understands the birds’ songs? He says he no longer spear. Waltraute explains that the only thing that can listens to the forest birds. Then he tells the story of his possibly save the gods now is the return of the ring to childhood and his fight with the dragon, Fafner. Hagen the Rhinemaidens. Brünnhilde refuses to part with it, and adds a herb to Siegfried’s drink, that restores his memory, Waltraute leaves in despair. As evening falls, Siegfried then asks him about what happened after he killed the returns, but transformed by the Tarnhelm into Gunther. dragon. Siegfried tells an astonished Gunther about his This false Gunther tears the ring from Brünnhilde’s finger rescue of Brünnhilde from the ring of flames, and their and claims her as his bride. passionate love for each other. Hagen stabs Siegfried in the back. Siegfried begs Brünnhilde’s forgiveness and dies. INTERMISSION Above, two ravens take flight, returning to Wotan to tell him the end has come. ACT II Scene i: Hagen is haunted by the spirit of his father— Scene iii: Gutrune awaits the return of her husband and Alberich the Nibelung. Hagen promises to obtain the ring dreads meeting up with Brünnhilde, whose presence from Siegfried, so that he and his father can rule the world haunts her. Hagen returns followed by a funeral together. procession. Hagen tells her that Siegfried is dead, killed by a bear. Through her grief, Gutrune realizes Scene ii: Siegfried brings Hagen the welcome news that Hagen has lied, and accuses her brother Gunther of Brünnhilde will now be Gunther’s bride. Hagen tells murder. Hagen confesses to the murder, but says he did Gutrune to prepare for a double wedding. it in righteousness. He attempts to take the ring from Siegfried’s finger, but Gunther stops him, claiming the Scene iii: Hagen announces the weddings to the men of ring is rightfully Gutrune’s. Challenging Gunther to a Gibichung and orders a celebration. fight, Hagen kills him. He reaches once again for the ring, but this time Brünnhilde stops him. She has learned Scene iv: Gunther leads Brünnhilde into the hall, and everything from the Rhinemaidens, and tells Gutrune introduces her to his sister and to Siegfried. Brünnhilde the truth about her relationship with Siegfried. Shamed, reacts violently upon seeing Siegfried, astonished that Gutrune curses Hagen. Brünnhilde orders the people to he has forgotten her. She sees the ring on his hand and prepare a funeral pyre for Siegfried. She removes the ring realizes it was he who came to her, not Gunther. She tells from his finger and places it on her own; she lights the the packed hall that she has slept with Siegfried. He denies pyre and throws herself upon it. The Rhine overflows its it, swearing on Hagen’s spear that he is innocent and that banks; the Rhinemaidens reclaim the ring and drag Hagen the spear should kill him if he is lying. beneath the waves. Flames consume Valhalla.

Scene v: Left alone with Gunther and Hagen, and believing herself betrayed, Brünnhilde succumbs to Hagen’s guile and reveals Siegfried’s only vulnerability—a blow to his back can kill him. Gunther, believing Siegfried slept

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 19 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY ORCHESTRA

VIOLIN I Sheila Jaffé ENGLISH HORN BASS TROMBONE Marie Bérard, Concertmaster Shannon Knights* Lesley Young Megan Hodge* The Concertmaster’s chair has Rory McLeod* Herbert Poole been endowed in perpetuity by Nicholaos Papadakis* CLARINET Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Angela Rudden* James T. Shields, Principal (leave CONTRABASS TROMBONE Aaron Schwebel, Associate Beverley Spotton (leave of of absence) Megan Hodge* Concertmaster absence) Dominic Desautels, Acting Jamie Kruspe, Assistant Yosef Tamir Principal* TUBA Concertmaster James Ormston* Scott Irvine, Principal Anne Armstrong CELLO Michele Verheul* Sandra Baron Bryan Epperson, Principal TIMPANI Bethany Bergman Alastair Eng, Associate Principal BASS CLARINET Michael Perry, Principal Hiroko Kagawa* Paul Widner, Assistant Principal Colleen Cook Trevor Tureski Nancy Kershaw Maurizio Baccante Dominique Laplante Naomi Barron* BASSOON PERCUSSION Yakov Lerner James Churchill** Eric Hall, Principal Trevor Tureski, Principal Renée London* Drew Comstock* Elizabeth Gowen (leave of Chung Ling Lo* Jayne Maddison Peter Cosbey* absence) Ryan Scott* Neria Mayer Bryan Holt* William Cannaway * Aya Miyagawa Olga Laktionova (leave of Lisa Chisolm* HARP Jung Tsai** absence) Sarah Davidson, Principal Marianne Pack* HORN Sanya Eng* VIOLIN II Elaine Thompson Mikhailo Babiak, Principal Paul Zevenhuizen, Principal Sarah Sutherland, Assistant STIERHORNS Csaba Koczó, Assistant Principal BASS Principal* Ian Cowie James Aylesworth Alan Molitz, Principal (leave of Janet Anderson Herbert Poole Jennie Baccante* absence) Roslyn Black* Christine Chesebrough* Tony Flynt, Acting Principal* Bardhyl Gjevori BACKSTAGE HORNS Terri Croft* Robert Speer, Assistant Principal Gary Pattison Michele Gagnon* Laura D’Angelo* Nick Davis* David Quackenbush* Aiden Kleer* Heng-Han Hou** Jesse Dietschi** Micajah Sturgess* Sarah Sutherland* Corey Gemmell* Tom Hazlitt Scott Wevers* Elizabeth Johnston Paul Langley Clara Lee* Eric Lee* WAGNER TUBAS Lynn Kuo* Reuven Rothman* Roslyn Black* MUSIC LIBRARIAN Alexei Pankratov* Robert Wolanski* Bardhyl Gjevori Wayne Vogan Louise Tardif Gary Pattison Marianne Urke (leave of absence) FLUTE David Quackenbush* ASSISTANT MUSIC LIBRARIAN Joanna Zabrowarna Douglas Stewart, Principal Ondrej Golias Leslie Newman* TRUMPET VIOLA Maria Pelletier* Alper Çoker, Acting Principal* STAGE LIBRARIAN Keith Hamm, Principal Michael Fedyshyn* Paul Langley Joshua Greenlaw, Assistant PICCOLO Robert Weymouth Principal Shelley Brown PERSONNEL MANAGER Carolyn Blackwell* BASS TRUMPET Ian Cowie Madlen Breckbill** OBOE David Pell* Catherine Gray Mark Rogers, Principal * extra musician Emily Eng* Jasper Hitchcock* TROMBONE ** Orchestra Academy member, Ethan Filner* Lief Mosbaugh* Charles Benaroya, Principal performing opening night only Ian Cowie

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY CHORUS

SOPRANOS MEZZO-SOPRANOS TENORS BARITONES/BASSES Lindsay Barrett Sandra Boyes Vanya Abrahams Grant Allert Margaret Evans Wendy Hatala Foley Tonatiuh Abrego Kenneth Baker Ingrid Martin Lilian Kilianski Fabian Arciniegas James Baldwin Jennifer Robinson Anne McWatt Stephen Bell Peter Barnes Teresa van der Hoeven Karen Olinyk Taras Chmil Bradley Christensen Sam Chung Sung Chung Stephen Erickson Jesse Clark William Ford Bruno Cormier Ryan Harper Michael Downie Patrick Jang John Holland John Kriter Keith Lam Jason Lamont Olivier Laquerre James Leatch Constantine Meglis Stephen McClare Jason Nedecky Derrick Paul Miller Michael Sproule Eric Olsen Michael Uloth Conrad Siebert Jan Vaculik Joshua Wales Peter Wiens Marcus Wilson Dylan Wright Gene Wu 20 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 Michael York MUSIC STAFF ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS UNDERSTUDIES Eric Weimer (Head of Music Preparation) Joanna Barrotta Gutrune Samantha Pickett Anne Larlee Tiffany Fraser Aviva Fortunata Hyejin Kwon (Ensemble Studio Intern Coach) First Norn Megan Quick ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNERS Second Norn Lauren Eberwein ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR Davida Tkach Third Norn Samantha Pickett Derek Bate Chris Malkowski Aviva Fortunata Hagen Simon Wilding GERMAN DICTION COACH Woglinde Jacqueline Woodley Adreana Braun Wellgunde Emily D’Angelo

Susan Bullock as Brünnhilde and Christian Franz as Siegfried in the COC’s 2006 production.

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 21 GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG AND THE TWILIGHT OF OUR IGNORANCE

BY STEPHAN BONFIELD

When we last left off in Siegfried, love concerned with pedestrian matters with godhood. Here lies the true curse had triumphed, and so apparently, had such as how to consolidate their power of the ring for Brünnhilde. She loses Wagner’s fans who had successfully along the Rhine by finding strong and immortality and must experience coerced the notoriously idealistic suitably attractive mates—Siegfried for inexorable death via the same composer into writing the one type his sister, Gutrune, and Brünnhilde for poisonous feelings that caused the ring of music he despised more than any Gunther himself. to be cursed in the first place. other—a love duet. And slithering among them, Time is made into an alien and dark But it is that love, tenuous and proposing how to make it all possible, phenomenon with the collapse of the tentative at best, that articulates is Gunther’s ever-treacherous half- World Ash Tree. At the beginning of most clearly the central premise of brother Hagen, plotting everyone’s Götterdämmerung, it is revealed that Götterdämmerung. If there is one downfall so that he can obtain the Wotan had whittled the tree down so matter upon which humanity is ring for himself. Although Hagen much that it fractured and broke apart absolutely reliant, it is that love is and Gunther share the same mother, the fate of all to such a degree that the the most precious gift that graces Hagen’s father is the dwarf Alberich, future of the universe could no longer nearly all our lives. But if love is to who renounced love in order to steal be read by the Norns. In such a world, succeed, it must be at once as deep in the gold in the opening scene of Das we lose our own sense of certainty and foundational commonalities between Rheingold, the prequel to Wagner’s innocence, and above all, we fall prey its participating partners as it is both epic cycle, wherein he attempted to to corruption and desire for temporal broad and secure in the social milieu wield its measureless power. When power as psychological compensation. where it takes root. Wotan, king of the gods, in turn stole This is due as much to the curse of the the gold to secure absolute dominion ring as the preternatural insecurities Siegfried and Brünnhilde’s love for over everything as payment for his of Wotan, a king of the gods whose one another carries neither of these heavenly fortress Valhalla, Alberich hypocrisy drives his quest for absolute crucial ingredients. They live on a pronounced a curse that promised unassailability resulting in the rocky outcropping far from the cares of destruction to all who come in contact destruction of the universe, the very everyday life and know scarcely little with the ring. thing he created. of human concerns and much less, tragically, of the possibilities inherent It is that very curse that ultimately Wagner saw both creation and Wotan, in humanity’s darkest side: namely its dooms the love between Siegfried its creator, as flawed; a crack in the all-too precarious flirtations with greed and Brünnhilde. Torn apart via usury cosmos permeating all the way down and treachery. and deceit, both suffer the ultimate into the human world. The curse of the displacements from each other: ring stood as the outward appearance Götterdämmerung is Wagner’s longest Siegfried is ripped from Brünnhilde of an eternally flawed creation that opera in the Ring Cycle but in terms of by having his memory shrouded required annihilation in order to be storytelling it is also his simplest. In (already a problem we saw in Siegfried) fixed. this, the central story of the epic poem and Brünnhilde, no longer a god, The Ring of the Nibelung, the world is torn from Siegfried by being But how to undo a curse that binds of the gods is thrown off (apart from exposed to the ravages of finite time gods and mortals? The only solution is one exchange between Waltraute, a known to all mortals. Brünnhilde to awaken to the fact that one cannot, Valkyrie who implores Brünnhilde to is dragged through the darkest and that the awesome creative power renounce the ring to save Wotan and of human experiences: betrayal, of the entire universe, symbolized in the gods), and instead we live inside humiliation, insatiable vengeance the gold itself, cannot ever be captured the human world of the Gibichungs and undiluted anger—the very single-handedly nor apprehended and their leitmotif of stuffy politics. emotions that ultimately steal away whole-mindedly by any one being. Conversation in Gunther’s hall is only the transcendental bliss associated Indeed, the twilight of the gods

22 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 Mats Almgren as Hagen with the men of the COC Chorus in the COC’s 2006 production.

is the realization that such lust to act, one of many important tenets version, the end of Götterdämmerung power must be overturned. Power, as found in the Greek tragedies Wagner came to symbolize, in the most Wagner witnessed it in his own time, studied assiduously and emulated glorious of über-Romantic thinking, was inherently self-blinded to the devotedly in his music dramas. The how we annihilate our own past flaws nefariousness of our own defective premise of Wagner’s original title for and begin anew in a future of our own individual and collective will, just as it Götterdämmerung—Siegfrieds Tod making; what Wagner described as is for any would-be gods today, whether (The Death of Siegfried)—becomes redemption from death via art of the they be ancient mytho-poetical prescriptive for redemption through “innermost soul of the world.” characters of the distant past or the his primary character exponent, many narcissistic political incarnations Brünnhilde. Wagner pronounced Therefore, the Ring, with its optimistic of the present. that his Ring Cycle was created ending leitmotif—a transformation of for Brünnhilde’s “glorification,” a the Brünnhilde “love” leitmotif which Götterdämmerung arguably presents constitutive means and a proxy for began Act I—contains a grand but a somewhat nihilistic view of a world us to contemplate our own mortality uncomplicated message: humanity can gone bad, absolutely corrupted by a within a flawed universe that is not escape its past instincts, inherited from will to absolute power. But through all infinite and unassailable at all, but is a flawed creation, and wish for a more of it, Wagner wished to present a clear itself just as subject to the cosmic laws hopeful future. But Wagner leaves it for message to us: to be redeemed from of finitude. us to decide just how that future will such a world requires an awakening to look. self-awareness from the protean dream Wagner had trouble ending the Ring state found in Siegfried’s naturalistic Cycle, setting at least five different naïveté. texted versions to different music. Stephan Bonfield is a frequent speaker Indeed, after he had chosen his ending at the COC and other opera companies Hence, the awakening of Brünnhilde, he was not satisfied with it for a time, across Canada and is the opera and and our awakening too, comes but eventually came to believe it to ballet critic for The Calgary Herald through death itself as a purgative be the best compromise. In its final and Edmonton Journal.

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 23 Two artists, who have taken this Ring journey together over the last three seasons, leave us with unforgettable Q& A musical and theatrical memories.

JOHANNES DEBUS Conductor and COC Music Director

Not only does our audience’s Siegfried’s Funeral March and for all who want to hear some of journey with Wagner’s Ring Brünnhilde’s Immolation Scene the world‘s leading singers in this Cycle come to an end with are my obvious choices for the repertoire. I, for my part, can‘t wait! Götterdämmerung but this will most compelling moments in conclude your first time conducting Götterdämmerung. Hands down: is This cycle has been a huge the cycle. What have you there anything more ecstatic and achievement for the COC discovered about Wagner’s music mind-blowing than this music?! Orchestra—what has the journey dramas as you’ve worked through been like for them over the past them to their conclusion? What are some of the more three seasons? universal themes treated by Most people would probably Wagner in this story that make it Götterdämmerung marks the agree that “monumental” is an apt relevant today? conclusion of our Ring journey but descriptor of Wagner’s Ring Cycle. also coincides with the anniversary But even if you’ve encountered this Wagner‘s Ring is rich in manifold of the opening of our magnificent “monumentality” in smaller doses as universal themes and everlasting hall 10 years ago. On the program we have at the COC these past three human questions. To name a few: the then: Wagner‘s Ring. I‘m sure successive seasons, you will not miss cycle of creation and destruction; that for those who played in the that dimension, either sitting in the the dichotomy of power and orchestra 10 years ago, this will be a audience, playing in the orchestra powerlessness; self-determination very special moment to revisit and pit, performing on stage or working and heteronomy; and the relive fond memories of that pivotal backstage. Wagner requires a consequences of our own actions. moment for the company. Likewise, “monumental” buy-in from everyone We could also add themes like world for those who joined the company involved no matter what role we order; nature versus civilization; and its orchestra since then—and play in the experience. Yet despite past, present and future. It has lost I include myself in that number—it its larger-than-life qualities, the Ring nothing of its up-to-dateness and will prove to be a memorable and captivates me through its clarity relevance. special encounter with Wagner‘s of conception, composition and monumental opus. By revisiting structure. Wagner‘s great sense for Can you comment on some of the the Ring scores, our ensemble proportion makes the epic length major casting choices­—what can we builds its collective identity—what feel humanly measured. look forward to with this fantastic I like to call an “orchestral DNA.” team of singers? Wagner discovered and developed If you had to choose the most what we now view as the “modern” compelling musical moments in With Christine Goerke at the helm orchestra by exploring its full range Götterdämmerung, what would of our cast, Toronto should turn into of possibilities. He makes you they be, and why? a mecca for die-hard Wagnerites understand better than any other as well as the go-to destination composer what it means to play 24 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 together as an orchestra. “Wagner’s Ring is rich in manifold universal themes and everlasting human questions. To name a few: the cycle of creation and destruction; the dichotomy of power and powerlessness; self-determination and heteronomy; and the consequences of our own actions.” Johannes Debus

CHRISTINE GOERKE Brünnhilde

What distinguishes the Götterdämmerung Brünnhilde Do you have a favourite moment for Brünnhilde in this vocally from her other two iterations in the Ring Cycle? opera—if so, why?

The vocal writing for Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung is For me, it is when Brünnhilde explains to Waltraute how the culmination—a compilation—of everything that has her punishment has become her reward. gone before. We can hear her youthful glee, but we also hear something from her that we haven’t heard before: What have you learned about Brünnhilde as she (and Wotan’s anger. It’s something that has been latent within you) complete this Ring journey? her, the emotional and musical part of the character that has been missing until now. I’ve learned that art most certainly imitates life (and vice versa!)... Take the gods and magic away from the Ring What dramatic challenges are you faced with in this Cycle and you will find very “human” relationships. role? What in particular are you most looking forward to Dramatically, this Brünnhilde is a gift. Every emotion is about making your debut in this role with the COC there, ripe for the picking. People might like to talk about Orchestra and Johannes Debus? how this is a vocally exhausting role, but it’s quite a ride emotionally as well! I am looking forward to ending this incredible journey with the friends with whom this all began.

COC JOIN US FOR OPERA INSIGHTS 365 GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG FROM SCRATCH: A NOVICE’S GUIDE RESERVE YOUR PLACE AT Monday, February 6, 2017, 7 – 8:30 p.m. THIS FREE EVENT AT Education Centre, Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts coc.ca/OperaInsights 145 Queen St. W. (at University Ave.)

Join COC Music Director Johannes Debus as he leads you through the score of the final instalment of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, Götterdämmerung. No musical background necessary!

GIVING THE FUTURE OF OPERA THE REAL EXPERIENCE BY JENNIFER PUGSLEY

COC Six finalists and Johannes Debus (far right) 365 congratulate Simone McIntosh (second from right) on her First Prize win at Centre Stage, 2016.

Since 1980, with the formation of the the piloted programs formulated to Cash prizes ranging in value from Ensemble Studio, the Canadian Opera date while securing a stable source of $1,500 to $5,000 were presented, but Company has invested in fostering funding so that in the long-term the the bigger and, some would say, more operatic talent. The bulk of those COC can not only make all the current coveted reward was the offer of a spot efforts have focused on the training projects permanent but expand its in the 2017/2018 Ensemble Studio, two of singers and opera coaches, but in training efforts. of which were made: to mezzo-soprano recent years, the scope of the COC’s Simone McIntosh of Vancouver, who training efforts has broadened to “Apprenticeships are standard fare took home First Prize (the Chair’s include instrumentalists through the in so many professional careers— Prize), and baritone Samuel Chan of Orchestra Academy, created in 2014, medicine, law, engineering—why not Calgary, who won Second Prize. and emerging opera companies with opera?” points out Nina. “What we can the Company-in-Residence initiative, offer as a company is to build a more “What’s really impressive about launched this past fall with indie opera sustainable infrastructure for the art Simone as an artist is her willingness collective Against the Grain Theatre as form.” to take risks. She’s a fearless the inaugural participant. performer,” shares Nina. “Samuel Nurturing Canada’s future operatic impressed us from the first words he “What we’ve learned from all these singing talent is an area in which sang, even in his audition DVD. He has programs is just how great the need the COC already plays a visible role, an incredible artistic sensitivity and really is. To work in opera, at the level especially since taking its annual connection to text.” of a company like the COC, on par Ensemble Studio auditions public with the major international opera through a competitive vocal showcase “Both of them, across the board, were companies, it’s essential to have hands- in 2011 that swiftly grew in scale so responsive. Everything you said to on experience,” asserts Nina Draganic, to anchor the COC’s Centre Stage them in the sessions leading up to the Director of the COC Ensemble Studio fundraising gala. On November 3, actual competition just fell on fertile and Orchestra Academy. seven finalists were selected from a soil and blossomed.” pool of 119 applicants for the 2017/2018 It’s in that spirit the COC inches closer Ensemble Studio to perform in the Simone and Samuel, as well as to realizing an ambitious future for an Ensemble Studio Competition at incoming pianist/coach Rachael Kerr, all-encompassing training program Centre Stage. It was a night that are slated to join the Ensemble Studio that includes the various branches focused a spotlight on some of the training program next fall and may one of young artists that come through country’s best and brightest young day be counted among the program’s the world of opera. The hope in the stars. illustrious graduates. short-term is to keep learning from

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 27 But there’s no tenor next season? players take part in an intensive three- It marks an exciting evolution in week training program that features, the development of the Orchestra “People often ask why we don’t take among other opportunities, playing Academy, allowing the COC to go two tenors, two sopranos, two mezzos, opening night of Götterdämmerung beyond the borders of Toronto when two baritones, etc., as many young with the COC Orchestra, conducted by connecting with student players. artist programs do. It would certainly COC Music Director Johannes Debus. make our lives much easier on so many “There’s a palpable excitement from levels,” says Nina with a rueful grin. The student players are paired up with these students about the opportunity “But that’s not our priority. Our priority mentors from the COC Orchestra: offered through our program,” shares is to take the artists we feel have the Sandra Baron, first violin; Elizabeth Nina. “There are orchestra academies most potential, however that may play Johnson, second violin; Sheila Jaffé, elsewhere in the world, in Toronto out.” viola; Paul Widner, cello; and Robert even. What distinguishes ours is the Speer, bass, learning from them in connection to the human voice. We On January 8, 2017, the COC welcomed a one-on-one capacity. Orchestra give them opportunities and valuable a new class of student musicians to the Academy members also take part in hands-on experience that they can’t get 2017 Orchestra Academy: violinists a variety of public performances and elsewhere.” Jung Tsai from the Schulich School participate in masterclasses and private of Music at McGill University and sessions with opera singers, production As is the case with everything the Heng-Han Hou from the University of personnel and visiting music staff. COC currently offers to young artists, Toronto’s Faculty of Music, as well as says Nina, “it’s about having the real violist Madlen Breckbill, cellist James This year’s academy auditions featured experience.” Churchill, and bassist Jesse Dietschi a wider pool of candidates with the from The Glenn Gould School at the Schulich School of Music on board as Royal Conservatory of Music. The five one of the collaborating organizations. Jennifer Pugsley is the COC’s Media Relations Manager.

17/18 ENSEMBLE STUDIO

SAMUEL CHAN EMILY D’ANGELO LAUREN EBERWEIN RACHAEL KERR DANIKA LORÈN Baritone Mezzo-soprano Mezzo-soprano Pianist Soprano

STÉPHANE MAYER SIMONE MCINTOSH SAMANTHA PICKETT MEGAN QUICK BRUNO ROY Pianist Mezzo-soprano Soprano Mezzo-soprano Baritone

2017 ORCHESTRA ACADEMY

MADLEN JAMES CHURCHILL JESSE DIETSCHI HENG-HAN HOU JUNG TSAI BRECKBILL Cello Bass Violin Violin Viola

28 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 OUR NEW ROOMMATES: AGAINST THE GRAIN BY GIANMARCO SEGATO

Over the course of this season and Four months into the residency, AtG’s our growth, and allows us to make a next, the COC has invited indie opera founder and artistic director Joel Ivany meaningful contribution to the opera collective Against the Grain Theatre is “already seeing the changes that are ecosystem.” (AtG) to be part of a pilot Company- happening at AtG. With a ‘home base’ in-Residence program. This new we have a regular and familiar location As the relationship between AtG residency program is specifically aimed for board meetings, collective meetings, and the COC develops, Joel has at young opera companies and offers, and weekly leadership meetings. I “hopes and plans for workshops, in addition to dedicated administrative can’t stress how important this is for experimenting with new projects and space and resources, mentorship organizing and planning.” further developing relationships with involving different departments and COC staff members. We’ve dreamed opportunities for job shadowing, as “Building a company is tough in any of doing workshops and now we have well as invitations to observe and/or industry, but especially in opera,” says the feasibility to do them. This is participate in company meetings and AtG administrative advisor Joanna invaluable.” events. Barrotta. “The COC's leadership in mentoring young companies like ours gives us a stable platform to continue Gianmarco Segato is the COC’s adult programs manager.

Below left: In 2013, AtG rehearsed AtG’s Messiah in one of the studios at the COC’s administrative complex at the Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Opera Centre. Below centre and right, and at the top of the page: in 2014, the company rehearsed and performed their production of Pelléas et Mélisande at the same location, in the beautiful Max Tanenbaum Courtyard.

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[1] Roy and Marjorie Linden (far left and far right) and Brian [3] Backstage after the opening night performance of Norma, Wilks (centre right) have been supporting the young artists of the American tenor Russell Thomas (second from right) meets with Ensemble Studio for many years. This season, they are collectively (l–r) COC Board Vice Chair Justin Linden, Stephanie Orleans, and sponsoring the work of (left to right) intern coach Stéphane Mayer, Roya and Rick Diradour. mezzo-soprano Lauren Eberwein, and intern coach Hyejin Kwon. The Lindens are also underwriting An Evening with the Ensemble [4] The cast and creative team of Ariodante celebrated their Studio on February 23, a mainstage showcase of Ensemble artists in opening with a post-performance toast. a program of Handel and Mozart. [5] A moment to relax after the Ensemble Studio Competition [2] Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky and her husband/manager and before the gala dinner: pictured are Third Prize winner baritone Duncan Lear celebrate the opening night of Norma with COC Geoffrey Schellenberg, First Prize winner mezzo-soprano Simone supporters. McIntosh, Audience Choice Award winner soprano Myriam Leblanc, and Second Prize winner baritone Samuel Chan.

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[6] Famed Canadian soprano—and next season’s Artist-in- [12] The COC Ensemble Studio School Tour visited Kingston Residence—Jane Archibald shows her daughter Audrey around the on its journey around Ontario this past fall, and met with members opera house after the opening night performance of Ariodante. of the Kingston Opera Guild. [13] And here’s the bus that transported the cast, set and costumes! [7] Before the public performance of the Ensemble Studio School Tour production of Second Nature, young audience members and [14] Ensemble Studio mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo relaxed their parents enjoyed pre-show activities in the Imperial Oil Opera after her Koerner Hall debut in November, part of the Generation Theatre. Next event.

[8] Centre Stage Co-Chairs Julie Lassonde and Michael Gibbens [15] Pictured are winners of a draw at Polycultural Immigrant and with COC General Director Alexander Neef and Clare Neef on Community Services. The prizes? Tickets to COC performances, stage of the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts following through the COC’s Share the Opera program. the Ensemble Studio Competition. [16] Ensemble Studio artist Lauren Eberwein shows off her skills COC Music Director Johannes Debus made his Metropolitan on the glockenspiel at the annual Cocktails and Carols holiday Opera debut conducting Salome in December 2016. [9] Alexander party for COC supporters. Neef, along with a contingent of COC supporters, made the trip to watch the performance and celebrate with Johannes and the Visit our website at coc.ca to learn more and Salome cast, which included [11] Patricia Racette (Madama get involved in all the COC has to offer! Butterfly with the COC in 2014) in the title role.[10] Johannes also reunited with former COC technical director Dave Feheley (now technical director at the Met).

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 33 BIOGRAPHIES: THE MAGIC FLUTE

PHILLIP ADDIS INGMAR BECK MATT BOEHLER AMBUR BRAID MYUNG HEE CHO Baritone (Stratford, ON) (Vienna, Austria) Bass (Minneapolis, MN, USA) Soprano (Terrace, BC) (Beverley Hills, CA, USA) Papageno Assistant Conductor Sarastro The Queen of the Night Set and Costume

COC CREDITS: Pyramus/Tancredi, COC DEBUT COC CREDITS: Raleigh, Roberto SELECT COC ROLES: Dalinda, Designer Pyramus and Thisbe with Lamento Devereux (2014) Ariodante (2016); Adele, Die COC CREDITS: The Magic Flute d’Arianna and Il combattimento RECENT: J. Strauss II’s One Night in Fledermaus (2012); Stella, The Tales (2011) di Tancredi e Clorinda (2015); Venice (Opéra de Lyon); Béatrice et RECENT: Bertrand, Iolanta of Hoffmann (2012); Amore, Orfeo ed Schaunard/Marcello, La Bohème Bénédict (Aspen Music Festival) (Metropolitan Opera); Il Cieco, Iris Euridice (2011) RECENT: The Thieving Magpie (2013) (Bard Summerscape); Baron Ochs, (Glimmerglass Opera); Golden UPCOMING: Nuremberg Symphony Die Rosenkavalier (Victory Hall RECENT: Queen of the Night, The Fairytale Fanfare (Shanghai Disney RECENT: Marcello, La Bohème Orchestra; Assistant Conductor Opera); Soloist; Donkey, Becoming Magic Flute (English National Opera, Resort); Set Designer, The Trojan (Opéra de Québec); Pelléas, Pelléas (Aspen Music Festival) Santa Claus (Dallas Opera—world Calgary Opera, Frankfurt Oper); Anne Women (National Theatre of Korea); et Melisande (Staatsoper Hamburg); premiere) Truelove, The Rake’s Progress (Teatro Costume Designer, The Marriage of Count Almaviva, The Marriage of de São Carlos); Konstanze, The Figaro (Washington National Opera) Figaro (Semper Oper Dresden) UPCOMING: Uncle, Elizabeth Cree Abduction from the Seraglio (Opera (Opera Philadelphia—world premiere); Atelier); Violetta, La Traviata (Arizona UPCOMING: Set Designer, Trans UPCOMING: Count Almaviva, The Mr. Mister, The Cradle Will Rock Opera) Script (American Repertory Theater); Marriage of Figaro (Vancouver Opera); (Opera Saratoga) In the Body of the World (Manhattan Soloist, Carmina Burana (Toronto UPCOMING: Oksana G., Oksana G. Theater Club; Arena Stage; Young Vic) Symphony Orchestra) (Tapestry Opera)

MICHAEL COLVIN ASHLIE CORCORAN NEIL CRAIGHEAD EMILY D’ANGELO AVIVA FORTUNATA Tenor (Toronto, ON) (White Rock, BC) Bass-baritone (Calgary, AB) Mezzo-soprano (Toronto, ON) Soprano (Calgary, AB) Monostatos Revival Director Second Armed Man Second Lady First Lady

SELECT COC CREDITS: Basilio, The SELECT COC CREDITS: (as director) SELECT COC CREDITS: Dr. Grenvil, COC DEBUT COC CREDITS: Clotilde, Norma Marriage of Figaro (2016); Dr. Caius, Second Nature (Ensemble Studio La Traviata (2015); Nottingham’s (2016); The Countess, The Marriage of Falstaff (2014); L’Aumônier, Dialogues School Tour [ESST], 2016); Operation Servant, Roberto Devereux (2014); RECENT: Soloist, Generation Next Figaro (Ensemble Studio performance des Carmélites (2013); Ferrando, Così Superpower (ESST, 2015); (as Publio, La clemenza di Tito (Ensemble (Koerner Hall); Cherubino, The [ESP], 2016); Annina, La Traviata fan tutte (2006); Count Almaviva, The assistant director) Tosca (2012) Studio Performance, 2013) Marriage of Figaro (Spoleto Festival (2015); Berta, The Barber of Seville Barber of Seville (1999) dei Due Mondi) (2015); Helmwige, Die Walküre (2015); RECENT: (as director) Mustard RECENT: Pietro, Simon Boccanegra Fiordiligi, Così fan tutte (ESP, 2014) RECENT: Duke of Cornwall, Lear (Tarragon Theatre); Das Ding (The (Pacific Opera Victoria); Leporello, UPCOMING: Annio, La clemenza di (Opéra National de Paris); The Thing) (Theatre Smash/Canadian #UncleJohn (Against the Grain Tito (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis) UPCOMING: Donna Elvira, Don Painter, Lulu (English National Opera); Stage/Thousand Islands Playhouse Theatre); Sarastro, The Magic Flute Giovanni (Saskatoon Opera) L’Aumônier, Dialogues des Carmélites [TIP]); The Gay Heritage Project (Edmonton Opera) ADDITIONAL: Winner of 2016 (Dutch National Opera); Rodolphe, (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and Metropolitan Opera National Council ADDITIONAL: Song Prize Finalist in Guillaume Tell (Royal Opera House) National Tour) UPCOMING: O’Donaghue/B. B. Osler, Audition Finals 2015 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World; Louis Riel (COC/National Arts Centre) Finalist, Operalia Competition, 2016 UPCOMING: Thomas Scott, Louis UPCOMING: Kiss (Theatre Smash/ Riel (COC); Duke of Cornwall, Lear Canadian Stage/ARC), Me and My Girl (Salzburg Festival); Vlaamse Opera (Shaw Festival), Leading Ladies (TIP) (2017); Opéra Monte Carlo; Royal Opera House (2018); Opéra National ADDITIONAL: Artistic Director (TIP); de Paris (2019). Artistic Producer (Theatre Smash)

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Date: Nov 22, 2016 Filename_ Version# COC162369 TDVisa_HouseProgram_03 Client: COC Artist: JM Desc: AD Acct. Mgr: CQ Pub: House Program Insertion Date: Winter 16/17 559 College Street, Suite 401 Trim: 8.375" x 10.875" Ship Date: Nov 25, 2016 Toronto, ON M6G 1A9 # Colours: 4C 416-323-3282 Bleed: .25" Safety/Live: 7.875" x 10.375" File Built at: 100% (1:1) PMS PMS INK DENSITY FOR NEWSPAPER: 240 INK DENSITY FOR MAGAZINE: 300 MARTIN GANTNER ANDREW HAJI JOSHUA HOPKINS SANDRA HORST GORAN JURIĆ Baritone (Freiburg, Germany) Tenor (London, ON) Baritone (Pembroke, ON) (Toronto, ON) Bass (Karlovac, Croatia) The Speaker (Also Gunther Tamino/First Armed Man Papageno Chorus Master Sarastro in Götterdämmerung) COC CREDITS: Alfredo, La Traviata COC CREDITS: Figaro, The Barber of SELECT COC CREDITS: Norma COC DEBUT COC CREDITS: Jochanaan, Salome (2015); Count Almaviva, The Barber of Seville (2015); Marcello, La Bohème (2016, 1998); Ariodante, Carmen, (2013) Seville (Ensemble Studio performance (2013); Morales, Carmen (2005) Maometto II, The Marriage of Figaro RECENT: Raimondo, Lucia di [ESP], 2015); Ferrando, Così fan (2016); La Traviata, Pyramus and Lammermoor; Ferrando, Il Trovatore; RECENT: Wolfram, Tannhäuser tutte (ESP, 2014); Rodriguez, Don RECENT: Valentin, Faust and Harry Thisbe with Lamento d’Arianna and Il Oroveso, Norma (Bayerische (Teatro de la Maestranza, Seville); Quichotte (2014) Bailey, It’s a Wonderful Life (Houston combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda Staatsoper); King Heinrich, Lohengrin Sixtus Beckmesser, Die Meistersinger Grand Opera); Count Almaviva, The (2015) (Teatro Real Madrid); Sarastro, The von Nurnberg (Bayerische RECENT: Rodolfo, La Bohème (Opera Marriage of Figaro (Washington Magic Flute (La Fenice) Staatsoper); Herr von Faninal, Theatre of Saint Louis and Centre National Opera); Olivier, Capriccio RECENT: Conductor, The Machine Der Rosenkavalier (Lyric Opera of for Opera Studies in Italy); Hélios, (Santa Fe Opera); Mercutio, Roméo et Stops and Paul Bunyan (UofT Opera) UPCOMING: Sarastro, The Magic Chicago; Münchner Opernfestspiele; Herculanum (Wexford Festival Opera); Juliette (Lyric Opera of Chicago) Flute (Opera di Firenze); Mosè, Mosè Opéra National de Paris) Soloist, Verdi’s Requiem (Grand River UPCOMING: Louis Riel, Tosca (COC); in Egitto (Bregenz Festival) Chorus and Cambridge Symphony UPCOMING: Don Giovanni, Don Prima Zombie: The Diva that just UPCOMING: Kurwenal, Tristan und Orchestra) Giovanni (Utah Opera); Dr. Falke, Die wouldn’t stay dead (UofT Opera) Isolde (Teatro Regio); Dr. Schön, Fledermaus (Santa Fe Opera) Lulu (Teatro dell’Opera di Roma); UPCOMING: Gabriel Dumont, Louis ADDITIONAL: Director of Musical Telramund, Lohengrin (Opernhaus Riel (COC) Studies at UofT Opera Zürich)

ROB KEMPSON BERNARD LABADIE KIRSTEN MACKINNON STEPHANIE MARRS OWEN MCCAUSLAND (Kingston, ON) (Quebec City, QC) Soprano (Squamish, BC) (Toronto, ON) Tenor (Saint John, NB) Assistant Director Conductor Pamina Stage Manager Tamino/First Armed Man

COC DEBUT COC DEBUT COC DEBUT SELECT COC CREDITS: Ariodante; SELECT COC CREDITS: Lurcanio, Carmen (2016); La Traviata (2015); Ariodante (2016); Testo, Pyramus and RECENT: (as writer/director) RECENT: Engagements with the RECENT: Helena, A Midsummer Madama Butterfly (2003, 2014); Thisbe with Lamento d’Arianna and Il Mockingbird (Next Stage Theatre Metropolitan Opera; Gran Teatre del Night’s Dream (Aix-en-Provence/ Hercules (2013); Assistant Stage combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda Festival); SHANNON 10:40 Liceu; Santa Fe Opera; Cincinnati Beijing Festival); Mimì, La Bohème; Manager, Siegfried (2016) (2015); Juan, Don Quichotte and Lord (timeshare); #legacy (Harbourfront Opera; Glimmerglass Festival; New Die Gräfin, Capriccio; Countess, The Cecil, Roberto Devereux (2014); Tito, Centre); (as director) Violet’s the Pilot York and Los Angeles Philharmonic; Marriage of Figaro (Curtis Opera RECENT: 7sould presents Underneath La clemenza di Tito (2013) and Rose’s Clothes (Thousand Islands Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Theatre); Annina, La Traviata (Opera (The Beaches Jazz Festival); Playhouse) Saint Louis, Houston, Melbourne, Philadelphia) Apocalypsis (Luminato Festival); RECENT: Arturo, Lucia di and Toronto symphonies; Academy Panamania (Pan Am Games 2015 Arts Lammermoor (Pacific Opera Victoria); UPCOMING: (as writer/director) of Ancient Music; Orchestra of the UPCOMING: Fiordiligi, Così fan tutte and Culture Festival) Soloist, AtG’s Messiah (Against the Trigonometry (Factory Theatre Studio); Age of Enlightenment; Cleveland, and (Glyndebourne Tour); Countess, Grain Theatre) (as director) Million Dollar Quartet and Philadelphia orchestras; Bayerische The Marriage of Figaro (Garsington UPCOMING: Louis Riel (COC) Maggie and Pierre (Thousand Islands Rundfunk; Orchestre National de Opera); Ines, L’Africaine (Frankfurt UPCOMING: Soloist, The Seven Playhouse) France Opera) Deadly Sins (Toronto Symphony Orchestra) ADDITIONAL: Associate Artistic ADDITIONAL: Founder/Music Director, Director (Thousand Islands Playhouse) Les Violons du Roy and La Chapelle de Québec

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 37 DIANE PAULUS BRUNO ROY LAUREN SEGAL CHARLES SY ELENA TSALLAGOVA (New York City, NY, USA) Baritone (Montreal, QC) Mezzo-soprano (Toronto, ON) Tenor (Toronto, ON) Soprano (Vladikavkaz, Russia) Director Second Priest Third Lady First Priest Pamina

COC CREDITS: The Magic Flute COC DEBUT SELECT COC CREDITS: Flora, La COC CREDITS: Flavio, Norma; COC DEBUT (2011) Traviata (2015); Meg Page, Falstaff Condulmiero, Maometto II (2016); RECENT: Mercutio, Roméo et Juliette (2014); Nicklausse/Muse, The Tales Gastone, La Traviata (2015) RECENT: Adina, The Elixir of Love; RECENT: Waitress (Broadway at the (Canadian Vocal Arts Institute); Matt, of Hoffmann (2012); Third Lady, The Pamina, The Magic Flute; Gilda, Brooks Atkinson Theatre); Finding Crush (Banff Centre); Belcore, The Magic Flute (2011, 2006) RECENT: Adolfo, La Rondine (Opera Rigoletto; Micaëla, Carmen; Oscar, A Neverland (Broadway/National Tour), Elixir of Love (Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra Theatre of Saint Louis); Mr. Owen, Masked Ball (Deutsche Oper Berlin); Tony Award-winning revivals: Pippin, de Montréal and Opera McGill); John RECENT: Meg Page, Falstaff Postcard from Morocco (UofT Opera); Mélisande, Pelléas et Mélisande Porgy and Bess, Hair (Broadway); Brooke, Little Women; Count Almaviva, (Manitoba Opera [MO]); Soloist, Tamino, The Magic Flute (Chautauqua (Opéra National de Paris); Bystrouska, Crossing and In the Body of the The Marriage of Figaro (Opera McGill) The Diary of One Who Disappeared Institution and Hawaii Performing Arts The Cunning Little Vixen (Opéra World (American Repertory Theater); (Ottawa International Chamber Festival) National du Rhin and Glyndebourne Amaluna (Cirque du Soleil) UPCOMING: Poundmaker/Roy, Louis Music Festival with Against the Grain Festival); Marfa, The Tsar’s Bride Riel; the Jailer, Tosca (COC) Theatre); Emilia, Otello (Opéra de UPCOMING: Ambroise Lépine, Louis (Berlin Staatsoper) ADDITIONAL: Artistic Director of Montréal); Hermia, A Midsummer Riel (COC) the American Repertory Theater at Night’s Dream (Pacific Opera Victoria) UPCOMING: Liù, Turandot (Deutsche Harvard University; Tony Award for Oper Berlin); La Calisto, La Calisto Best Direction of a Musical (Pippin, UPCOMING: Charlotte, Werther (MO); (Opéra National du Rhin); Micaëla, 2013); 2014 TIME 100, TIME Soloist, Mendelssohn’s Elijah (Choeur Carmen (Bregenz Festival) Magazine’s annual list of the 100 most St-Laurent with McGill Chamber influential people in the world Orchestra)

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Papagena COC CREDITS: The Magic Flute (2011); Lucia di Lammermoor (2004) SELECT COC CREDITS: Forest Bird, Siegfried (2016); Cherubino, RECENT: Trojan Women (National The Marriage of Figaro (Ensemble Changgeuk Opera of Korea); Turandot Studio Performance [ESP], 2016); Iris, (Opera Australia); Miss Fortune FOOD AND BEVERAGE SERVICE Semele (ESP, 2012); Papagena, The (Bregenz Festival/Royal Opera Magic Flute (ESP, 2011) House); Red Waters (Opéra de We are pleased to offer, for the convenience of all our patrons, a Rouen Haute-Normandie); La Traviata RECENT: Dafne, Apollo e Dafne (Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet pre-order system for intermission purchases. Our pre-order system (Toronto Masque Theatre); Soloist, Theatre); Matsukaze (Lincoln Centre/ is designed to decrease your wait time at the bar during intermisison Magnificent Mozart (Edmonton Spoleto Festival) and we invite you to make use of it at every COC performance. Bars Symphony); Milice-Bride, Svadba- Wedding (San Francisco Opera); UPCOMING: Charlie Parker’s Yardbird are located throughout the Isadore and Rosalie Sharp City Room’s Dahlia, M’Dea Undone (Tapestry (Lyric Opera of Chicago; English many levels. Opera) National Opera); Eugene Onegin (Spoleto Festival) UPCOMING: Nataliya, Oksana G Food and beverages are not permitted in R. Fraser Elliott Hall. (Tapestry Opera)

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Six years ago, the B.C.-born soprano Ambur Braid was lying on the floor of a dressing room backstage at the Four Above: Peter and Ambur take in a Toronto Raptors game. Seasons Centre and thinking, “Oh my God, I can’t do this.”

She was in her first year as a member of the COC’s Ensemble “I was very impressed with Ambur’s commitment to opera Studio and about to appear in the training program’s annual and I watched how hard she worked,” he recalls. “I wouldn’t showcase as the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s The Magic last a week in the Ensemble.” Flute. Peter is a prominent financial services professional on Bay The Queen is a haunted role—peopled by voices of countless Street and the founder of Hampton Securities, a leading singers who have come before—and its famous run of high Canadian investment firm. Trained as a pianist, he has notes sometimes stifles young artists into rote imitation maintained an interest in classical music and opera for most rather than the individual work of shaping a living character of his life, but became more involved with the art form when out of all that coloratura. former Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion personally invited him to join the Opera Mississauga Board of Directors Ambur, however, didn’t seem stifled. in 2002 to advise the company on its financial position—an experience that turned out to be much more than that, as “This soprano turned a stock figurine into a scary, knife- Peter realized the extent of his commitment to ensuring a wielding matriarch,” reported the National Post, praising future for the art form. the originality of Ambur’s reading. Another reviewer, in La Scena Musicale, couldn’t help noting that “perhaps the A few years later he and Ambur met through mutual friends loudest ovations of the evening were reserved for the Queen and the two quickly hit it off. “He knew me before the of the Night.” Ensemble and there was a massive learning curve when I went in. I mean I had no idea what I was doing,” Ambur jokes. Ambur’s close friend Peter Deeb was in the opera house that “But he supported me from day one. He was a touchstone.” evening, clapping alongside 2,000 other opera fans. In 2016/2017, Peter extends that support by becoming He was better equipped than most of them to appreciate how Ambur’s artist sponsor. “It means the world to me to see hard the road to the stage really is. Ambur doing what she’s doing now,” he says of her trajectory, which has taken her to international destinations like Since the early 2000s, Peter Deeb has been one of the COC’s Frankfurt Opera and English National Opera. “I’m just so major supporters and is currently serving on the Board as proud of her and what she’s accomplished.” well as underwriting, in part, the Ensemble Studio training program through a multi-year commitment. He has also He will be in the audience with high expectations as Ambur been Ambur’s friend for the better part of a decade and returns to reprise her role in Flute this winter. And while seen first-hand the sacrifice and toil of a career in the arts: six years have brought lots of change and artistic success, the moments of overwhelming anxiety and the elusive Ambur says “I’m probably going to be just as nervous this breakthroughs, the hours of coachings and vocal exercise time around.” behind any performance.

Nikita Gourski is the COC’s Development and 46 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 Communications Officer ART FOR ART A REMARKABLE GIFT FOR THE COC ARCHIVES BY NIKITA GOURSKI

In October 2016, the COC received championed interdisciplinary art; he a unique gift from author, artist, played in art museums, home salons, and child psychologist Dr. Gabrielle and other venues—like a friend’s Israelievitch: a portfolio of eight, painting class at OCAD University—to limited edition lithographs and encourage the productive combination screen-prints commissioned by the of art forms that might not otherwise Metropolitan Opera in 1978. interact. In the same spirit, the Israelievitch family established the The collection of original graphic Jacques Israelievitch Endowment for works features eight artists of diverse Violin/Viola and Interdisciplinary Arts backgrounds and practices, each of at York University. whom was asked to interpret an opera through their own unique visual The donated portfolio—which also language. While the artists gathered features Richard Lindner, Marino for the project might not be household Marini, André Masson, Paul names, all of them played an important Wunderlich, and Jamie Wyath—is full role in the development of visual art in of artists who were open to technical the 20th century. experimentation and often moved freely across disciplines; many The Argentine-born Italian painter designed sets and costumes for theatre Leonor Fini, for example—whose and opera; others collaborated with rendition of Wagner’s Tristan und filmmakers and poets; some worked as Isolde evokes the detail and realism commercial illustrators. It is perhaps of an Old Master drawing—was shown especially appropriate then that the alongside Salvador Dali and Max Ernst portfolio should come to reside with at the seminal MoMA show, Fantastic the COC—an institution that is by Art, Dada, Surrealism (1937), and its very mission committed to the collaborated with Federico Fellini on combinatory possibilities of all the the film,8 ½. American Larry Rivers arts. (interpreting Madama Butterfly), who was also an accomplished jazz musician, created paintings and The prints are housed in the sculptures that found a home at Joan Baillie Archives of the COC museums and galleries like the MoMA, and available for public viewing the Whitney, and the Hirshhorn. by appointment. To find out Catalan Antoni Clavé, whose Cubist more, contact Archivist Birthe fragmentations take apart the imagery Joergensen at 416-306-2328 or of Carmen, was one of Spain’s best- [email protected]. known artists.

Dr. Israelievitch made the generous Nikita Gourski is the COC’s gift in memory of her husband Development and Communications Jacques, the renowned violinist and Officer former concertmaster of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, who appeared several times with the COC as part of Images from top to bottom: the Free Concert Series in the Richard Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Lindner. Bradshaw Amphitheatre. Throughout Tristan und Isolde by Leonor Fini. his career Mr. Israelievitch La Traviata by Marino Marini. LOOKING TO LOUIS RIEL BY GIANMARCO SEGATO

At a concept and design presentation The creative muscle behind given to COC artistic and Hinton’s production derives from administrative staff in late October, its most considerable challenge: Louis Riel stage director Peter Hinton “the Eurocentric tradition of Opera referenced Canadian author John as a form and its collision with the Ralston Saul whose bestseller A voice, culture and representation of Fair Country redefines Canada as a indigeneity in this history.” “Métis nation.” Ralston Saul rejects the conventional notion that our To clarify the complex web of nation’s history and character were competing political interests at shaped mainly by its British and the heart of Louis Riel Hinton French colonial “founders” but instead, has separated the opera’s various acknowledges that “what we are today personages into four groups: the Land has been inspired as much by four Assembly, the Parliamentary chorus, centuries of life with the indigenous the politicians of Ottawa, and the Métis civilizations as by four centuries of settlers. immigration. Perhaps more. Today we are the outcome of that experience. Preliminary costume sketches are by As have Métis people, Canadians in designer Gillian Gallow. Preliminary general have been heavily influenced set maquettes are by designer Michael and shaped by the First Nations. We Gianfrancesco. still are. We increasingly are. This Right: preliminary costume sketches for influencing, this shaping is deep within Louis and Marguerite Riel us.”

It is in this revisionist spirit that Hinton and his team have approached THE LAND ASSEMBLY. Portrayed by over 30 indigenous women Harry Somers’ 1967 Centennial and men, the Land Assembly are directly affected by the outcomes, project opera, conscious of the need victories and losses of the action. On stage throughout the opera, they to reconsider the piece in light of are a silent chorus in protest who challenge, retaliate and stand for the the new information and changing people and groups fighting for representation by Riel. They are the attitudes that have accumulated since people for whom the opera has not provided a voice. They are the blood its 1967 premiere. In the 50 years since and human life of what is at stake. its world premiere, Louis Riel has become the quintessential Canadian opera, and yet it has not been revived professionally since 1975. As Hinton says, “Somers’ and Moore’s defining history of struggle and representation in Canada’s west against colonialist and centralist objectives is not only a metaphor for the conflicts which forged the idea of confederation, but also serves as a challenge for present and future understandings of our country.”

48 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 THE PARLIAMENTARY CHORUS. Portrayed by members of the COC Chorus, they comment on the action but do not act. They are at once settler and immigrant men and women who sing in commentary to Riel, debating what should take place, as well as the modern members of parliament who legislate and validate the struggles of all Canadians in Ottawa.

THE POLITICIANS OF OTTAWA. Real historical personalities such as Sir John A. Macdonald (left), Sir George-Étienne Cartier and William McDougall whose motivating vision is Canadian unity, symbolized by the huge, long, indivisible table around which they make their decisions.

THE MÉTIS. These are the indigenous people led by Gabriel Dumont who historically hunted buffalo on the land that is present day Manitoba. In 1869 they seized Fort Garry (today’s downtown Winnipeg) in order to stake their land claim in the face of Sir John A. Macdonald’s nationalist agenda.

Louis Riel himself is situated in the midst all of these competing factions. As Canadian author Joseph Boyden has “If it were written today, certainly there would be more pointed out in Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont (2010), Riel Indigenous participation and involvement in its creation represents the “European” in the Métis: university-educated and its expression” Hinton explains. “It is my intention that and deeply Catholic, he never seemed fully comfortable in a more inclusive and expansive history shall be restored and the wilderness and instead continually strove for a way to amended [in] our 2017 production. It is a delicate balance of build his vision of a new church, a new society, in the wilds renewing the original spirit of the opera with contemporary of the West. It was this world view of a truly united Métis perspectives in order to revise the opera’s colonial biases and people that Sir John A. Macdonald quickly recognized as a bring forward its inherent strengths and power.” threat to his own vision of Canada.

Mavor Moore’s libretto and the original 1967 COC Gianmarco Segato is the COC’s adult programs manager. production (available on a Centrediscs DVD) were informed The COC’s production of Louis Riel is generously underwritten by the cultural practices of the time of their creation— by The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation, Philip Deck Hinton’s new COC production seeks to spark a dialogue that and Kimberley Bozak, Asper Foundation, and The Max Clarkson will encourage today’s audiences to reconsider historical Family Foundation perceptions of Riel as well as those of the Métis today. CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 49 HEARING RIEL A FREE SYMPOSIUM Don’t miss this day-long event delving into the fascinating biographical, historical and political terrain of Harry Somers’ opera, Louis Riel

When composer Harry Somers and librettist Mavor Moore Given the opera’s timely resonance, the COC, along with were commissioned to write an opera to commemorate organizing partners from the University of Toronto’s Faculty Canada’s Centennial celebrations in 1967, they freely chose of Music and the Humanities Initiative of the Munk School as their subject one of our nation’s most tragic episodes: of Global Affairs, presents Hearing Riel, a multi-disciplinary Louis Riel’s frustrated attempt to strike a fair deal for the exploration of the opera itself, its fraught historical subject Métis people of Western Canada in the face of the nation- matter, and its political implications for today. Presenters building juggernaut spearheaded by Prime Minister Sir include Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada; John A. MacDonald. The opera Louis Riel weaves together John Ralston Saul, author of A Fair Country; Jody Wilson- a myriad of timely thematic threads that are more relevant Raybould, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of than ever in this sesquicentennial year. The figure of Riel and Canada; Métis activist and lawyer Jean Teillet, grand-niece the ongoing question of Canada’s relationship to the Métis of Louis Riel; Adam Gaudry, assistant professor of Native people have once again been foregrounded by the federal Studies, University of Alberta; and Peter Hinton, director of government’s recent commitment to reach meaningful the COC’s new production of Louis Riel. reconciliation with the Métis Nation, provinces and territories as part of its ongoing plan to renew the nation’s relationship with indigenous peoples. COC 365 Tickets for this one-time only, one-day event will be HEARING RIEL available at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 4. To reserve a Friday, April 21, 2017, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. FREE ticket, visit coc.ca/HearingRiel or call the COC Box Office at 416-363-8231. There is a limit of one ticket per person. As this is a free event, our policy is to overbook. In Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave, Toronto, ON case of a full program, your reservation may not guarantee (St. George Campus, University of Toronto) admission. Unclaimed reservations will be released to standby customers 10 minutes prior to the start of the program. We recommend that you arrive early. General Nearest subway station: St. George admission seating will be in effect. JOIN US AGAIN IN 2017/2018!

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CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 51 COC BOARD OF DIRECTORS

OFFICERS Ms. Nora Aufreiter Mr. Timothy Loftsgard Ms. Colleen Sexsmith, Chair Ms. Marcia Lewis Brown Ms. Anne Maggisano Mr. Justin Linden, Vice-Chair Ms. Helen Burstyn Ms. Judy Matthews Mr. Paul A. Bernards, Treasurer Mr. Philip C. Deck Mr. Jonathan Morgan Mr. John H. Macfarlane, Secretary Mr. Peter M. Deeb Mr. James (Jim) Nicol Mr. Alexander Neef, Mr. George S. Dembroski Ms. Frances Price General Director (ex officio) Mr. William Fearn Mr. Jeffrey Remedios Mr. Robert Lamb, Mr. David Ferguson (ex officio) Mr. J. Allen Smith Managing Director (ex officio) Mr. Michael Gibbens Mr. Philip S. W. Smith Mr. Peter Hinman Mr. Paul B. Spafford MEMBERS Dr. Linda Hutcheon Ms. Kristine (Kris) Vikmanis Ms. Yael Woodward Amaral Ms. Carolyn Jarvis Mr. Graham Watchorn Mr. Tony Arrell Mr. Jeff Lloyd Mr. John H. (Jack) Whiteside

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Mr. Tony Arrell Mr. Philip C. Deck, Chair Ms. Colleen Sexsmith Mr. Jonathan Bloomberg Mr. Christopher Hoffmann Mr. David Spiro, Secretary Mr. J. Rob Collins

CREDITS AND COC OPERA GUILDS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Brantford Opera Guild ~ David M. Cullen, President Kingston Opera Guild ~ Grace Orzech, President The Canadian Opera Company would like to thank all those London Opera Guild ~ Ernest H. Redekop, President who volunteer both on a daily basis and for special events Muskoka Opera Guild ~ Dr. Hans Heeneman, President with the company. Sudbury Opera Guild ~ Dianne Moore, President

Michael Cooper, Official Photographer For more information, visit coc.ca/Guilds.

Musical excerpts provided by Universal Classics SUPERNUMERARIES The COC is a member of Opera America, Opera.ca and TAPA. GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG The COC operates in agreement with Canadian Actors’ Mark Garlin Equity Association. Sarah McNaughton Vladimir Pajovic The COC operates in agreement with I.A.T.S.E., Local #58, Ryan Reeves Local #822, Local #828.

William DVORAK Cello Concerto Molina-Cestari with William Molina-Cestari Masters Series Headliner - extraordinary cellist, William Molina-Cestari, joins internationally renowned MAESTRO MARCO PARISOTTO & OP for the Cello Concerto Sun. Jan. 29, 2017 3pm RCM’s in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191 in this rousing masterwork in Part II. Koerner Hall (Toronto) Call: 416-408-0208 In Part I, OP debuts the Canada 150 Mosaic Series (in collaboration with TSO), Online: performance.rcmusic.ca Launch! For Orchestra 2016, by Canadian composer, Vivian FUNG. www.ontariophil.ca LIZST’s Les Préludes, S 97 (Symphonic Poem No. 3) and DVORAK’s Marco Parisotto, Music Director 1-844-858-6711 Slavonic Dance No. 2, Op. 72 in E minor continue the momentum.

ONP 005 Dvorak Cello Concerto Can Opera Ad1/4_FNL_r1.indd 1 2016-12-13 10:11 AM 16_3626_FSCOR_COC_Support_Ad_FA_Outline.indd 1 2016-07-14 10:13 AM ADMINISTRATION AND STAFF ALEXANDER NEEF, General Director

Managing Director PRODUCTION Robert Lamb Director of Production Music Director Chuck Giles Johannes Debus Technical Director Mike Ledermueller EXECUTIVE OFFICE Executive Assistant to the Production Manager General Director Michael Freeman Marguerite Schabas Lighting Co-ordinator NEW & Daniele Guevara MUSIC AND ARTISTIC ENHANCED ADMINISTRATION Assistant Technical Directors Autumn Coppaway BENEFITS! Director of Music & Artistic Jake Gow Administration Melynda Jurgenson Renew or join by Roberto Mauro Assistant Production Manager June 30, 2017 Contracts Manager Shawna Green Karen Olinyk to save! Head Electrician Company Manager Joe Nalepka Olwyn Lewis Assistant Electricians Chorus Master Ashley Rose Sandra Horst Joel Thoman

Assistant to the Music Director Head of Sound Derek Bate Bob Shindle

Scheduling Manager Assistant Sound Kathryn Garnett Craig Kadoke

Production Assistants Head Carpenter Katherine Belyea Paul Watkinson Andréane Christiansen Assistant Carpenter Orchestra Personnel Manager David Middleton Ian Cowie Head Flyman Music Librarian, Coach David Alexander Wayne Vogan Head of Properties Assistant Music Librarian Daniel Graham Ondrej Golias Head of Front of House Music Staff Alex Maitland Rachel Andrist (The Magic Flute) Ingmar Beck (The Magic Flute) Core Crew Anne Larlee (Götterdämmerung) Doug Closs Michael Shannon (The Magic Terry Hurley Flute) Paul Otis Eric Weimer (Götterdämmerung) Gregg Feor

Scene Shop Co-ordinator COC ENSEMBLE STUDIO AND Amy Cummings ORCHESTRA ACADEMY Head Scene Shop Carpenter Director, COC Ensemble Studio David Retzleff and Orchestra Academy Nina Draganic Assistant Scene Shop Carpenter Andrew Walker Head of the Ensemble Studio & Coach Head Scenic Artist Liz Upchurch Richard Gordon

Head Vocal Consultant Assistant Head Scenic Artist Wendy Nielsen Katherine Lilley

Performance Kinetics Consultant Rehearsal Head Technician Jennifer Swan Scott Williamson

COC Ensemble Studio Properties Supervisor Emily D’Angelo Wulf Higgins Lauren Eberwein Hyejin Kwon Resident Properties Builder/ Danika Lorèn Co-ordinator Stéphane Mayer Stephanie Tjelios Samantha Pickett Megan Quick Resident Properties Buyer/ Bruno Roy Co-ordinator Aaron Sheppard Kathy Frost Charles Sy Properties Builder/Co-ordinator 416-847-4949 Tracy Taylor Properties Builder coc.ca/Friends Carolyn Choo

Sondra Radvanovsky in Norma (COC, 2016), photo: Michael Cooper.

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Foundation Development EDUCATION AND OUTREACH IT Services Assistant Building Operators Janet Stubbs Tony Sandy Dan Bisca Associate Director, Education & Dan Popescu Director of Development Outreach Archivist, Joan Baillie Archives Adrian Tudoran Stephen Gilles Katherine Semcesen Birthe Joergensen Eurest Services Supervisor Senior Manager, Advancement Program Manager, Free Concert Receptionist/Switchboard Paula Da Costa Operations Series Katarina Božovic Peter Hussell Dorian Cox Eurest Services Team Mailroom Clerk/Courier Jennifer Barros Senior Manager, Events & Adult Programs Manager Branka Hrsum Nash Lim Engagement Gianmarco Segato Jimmy Pacheco Tracy Abergel Sugey Torres School Programs Manager FOUR SEASONS CENTRE FOR Senior Development Officer, Vanessa Smith THE PERFORMING ARTS Events & Engagement Erin Koth Children & Youth Programs Director, Four Seasons Centre for Co-ordinator the Performing Arts Amber Yared Alfred Caron CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 55 MANY THANKS TO OUR SUPPORTERS Life Trustees Council The Canadian Opera Company salutes the leaders of the COC community whose efforts have been integral to the company’s artistic evolution and transformative history of accomplishment. Earlaine Collins Jerry and Geraldine Heffernan Adrianne Pieczonka J. Rob Collins Ben Heppner Arthur R. A. Scace, C. M. David Ferguson (Chair) Henry N. R. Jackman David Stanley-Porter

Emeritus Council Executive Committee The COC Emeritus Council, led by the Executive Committee, salutes those Board Members who have completed their term and whose leadership efforts have been integral to the company’s artistic evolution and transformative history of accomplishment. Michael Gough (Co-Chair) The Hon. Barbara McDougall Sue Mortimer Catherine Fauquier Jack Whiteside (Co-Chair)

E. Louise Morgan Society The E. Louise Morgan Society was created to reflect the vision and commitment of its founder and the members who have created a legacy of leadership, passion and philanthropy in support of the goals of the Canadian Opera Company.

Each of these donors has contributed a cumulative total of more than one million dollars over the past 15 years. Their support is critical to the company’s success and we are forever indebted to their commitment and generosity.

Tony and Anne Arrell Kolter Communities The Estate of Dr. Larry M. Agranove The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation ARIAS: Canadian Opera Student Development Fund Roger D. Moore The Gerard & Earlaine Collins Foundation E. Louise Morgan The late John A. Cook Tim & Frances Price The Estate of Horst Dantz and Don Quick Colleen Sexsmith Philip Deck & Kimberley Bozak Joey & Toby Tanenbaum Jerry and Geraldine Heffernan Anonymous (3) The Henry White Kinnear Foundation

Major Gifts and Special Projects The COC offers its sincere thanks to the individuals listed below for their extraordinary support.

PRODUCTION $25,000 – $99,999 Marjorie and Roy Linden $1,000,000+ UNDERWRITERS Earlaine Collins Roger D. Moore Jerry and Geraldine Heffernan Demonstrating their leadership Robert Sherrin The Stratton Trust The Henry White Kinnear and generosity, these donors The Tauba and Solomon Spiro Foundation have underwritten the COC’s Family Foundation Up to $24,999 Tim & Frances Price mainstage productions. Kristine Vikmanis & ARIAS: Canadian Opera Anonymous (1) Denton Creighton Student Development Fund $500,000 + Anonymous (1) Marcia Lewis Brown $100,000+ The Catherine and Maxwell Margaret Harriett Cameron and Anne & Tony Arrell Meighen Foundation Up to $24,999 the late Gary Smith Colleen Sexsmith J. Hans Kluge Ninalee Craig Up to $24,999 Marjorie and Roy Linden Catherine Fauquier Bruce C. Bailey $100,000 – $499,999 Patrick Hodgson Family James & Christine Nicol Philip Deck & Kimberley Bozak ENSEMBLE STUDIO Foundation Simon Nyilassy SUPPORTERS Peter & Hélène Hunt $10,000 – $99,999 Encouraging the next Jo Lander ENDOWMENT SUPPORT Asper Foundation generation of artists, these Colleen Sexsmith Making a gift to the The Max Clarkson Family donors support the COC The Budd Sugarman Endowment ensures the long- Foundation in honour of Ensemble Studio. Foundation term stability for the COC and Harry Somers Kristine Vikmanis & its artists. $1,000,000 Denton Creighton PERFORMANCE AND ARTIST Peter M. Deeb Toronto Wagner Society $100,000 + SPONSORS Brian Wilks Hon. Henry N. R. Jackman The following donors extend $500,000 – $999,999 their generous support The Slaight Family Foundation GENERAL PROGRAM $25,000 – $99,999 to individual artists and SUPPORTERS Dr. Rodney C. Ellis productions $25,000 – $499,999 Providing general program Michael & Linda Hutcheon Ethel Harris & the late support is critical to the COC’s Michael W. & Wanda Plachta $100,000 + Milton E. Harris artistic mission. Janet Stubbs George & Kathy Dembroski Hal Jackman Foundation Jack Whiteside Barbara Keenan Up to $24,999 Scott Irvine† & Joan Watson David E. Spiro 56 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 LEGACY AND BEQUEST GIFTS MEMORIAL AND HONORARY Dina Lieberman Michael Gibbens & The COC honours the memory DONATIONS Patricia Martin Julie Lassonde of the following patrons whose The COC expresses its sincere Dr. Samuel A. Ojo Nancy Gibson vision and generosity has appreciation to all donors Emily Rankin Rochelle Krivy provided lasting support. who have made memorial and John & Norma Rogers Robert Morassutti honorary donations. Abraham (Bram) Smit Colleen Sexsmith Estate of James Drewry Stewart Dr. David Stanley-Porter Estate of Norma Yvonne In Memory of In Honour of Peter Tolnai & Emily Murray’s Sawden‡ James A. Bradshaw Nora Aufreiter Wedding Estate of Nancy Faye Wood Joan Chalmers Ninalee Craig Sylvia Langley ‡ designates funds directed to the Jean Edwards COC’s Endowment

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Graham & Riki Turofsky & Charles Petersen** Rose & Roger Goldstein**** June Shaw & the late Mrs. Catherine Graham**** Ms Kristine Vikmanis & Michael & Anne Gough**** Dr. Ralph Shaw**** Rennie & Bill Humphries**** Mr. Denton Creighton**** Dr. Noëlle Grace & The Shohet Allan & Helaine Shiff**** Ronald Kimel & The Youssef-Warren Foundation**** Family**** David & Hilary Short**** Vanessa LaPerriere**** Ronald & Birgitte Granofsky**** Hume Smith**** Susan Loube & William Acton** Douglas & Ruth Grant* Dr. Harley Smyth & Judy & Wilmot Matthews** PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL John & Judith Grant** Carolyn McIntire Smyth** James & Christine Nicol John Groves & Vera Del Vecchio**** Mr. Philip Somerville** Jack Whiteside*** TRUSTEE, $7,500 – $12,499 Dr. Albert J. Haddad Dr. John Stanley & Anonymous (1) à la Carte Kitchen Inc. 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Anne Mackay**** Mr. Carmen & Dr. & Mrs. Steven Millward** Dr. M. L. Thurling Mrs. Janet Maggiacomo** Mrs. Vittoria Guglietti** Mr. David Milovanovic & Mr. Ronald L.W. Till**** Mary McClymont**** Ellen & Simon Gulden**** Dr. Cinda Dyer Elizabeth Tory**** Janina Milisiewicz**** James & Joyce Gutmann**** Florence Minz Mr. Alex Tosheff* Mr. Carl Morey**** Dan Hagler & Family*** Audrey & David Mirvish*** Dita Vadron & Jim Catty** Sean O’Neill & Victoria Cowling****

58 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 Dr. F.E. Perera Christopher Kowal* Gifts planned today, that will Mr. & Mrs. James D. Patterson Ms Victoria Pinnington*** Dr. Milos Krajny**** ultimately affect your estate, allow Mervyn Pickering Dr. Alice Pitt & Mr. James R. Lake**** you to make a statement of support Gunther & Dorothy Piepke Dr. Deborah Britzman Harry Lane*** that will become a lasting legacy to Sheila K. Piercey Mr. Andrew Prodanyk Alan & Marti Latta**** Dr. Zitamaria Pinto Dr. Peter Ray**** Giles le Riche & the COC. Wanda Plachta Dr. Shelley Rechner**** Rosemary Polczer*** Ms Georgia Prassas Robert & Dorothy Ross**** Claus & Heather Lenk** The Canadian Opera Company K. F. Read Ken & Helen Rotenberg** Yakov Lerner†* gratefully acknowledges and thanks Dr. John Reeve-Newson Ms Elisabeth Scarff**** Dr. David Levine* the following individuals who have Florence Richler Judge Nancy M. Siew Susan Lockwood* included the COC in their estate John & Norma Rogers Dr. & Mrs. W. K. Stavraky*** Gil & Dorota Lorenson planning: Mrs. Margaret Russell Helga & Klaus Stegemann*** Dr. Francois Loubert** Sharon Ryman† Anna Talenti**** Deidre Lynch & Thomas Keirstead* Marie Agay Cookie & Stephen Sandler Mr. & Mrs. David G. Trent**** David Macfarlane Susan Agranove & Estate of Fred & Mary Schulz Mr. John M. Welch**** Mary P. MacLean*** Dr. Larry M. Agranove John & Helen Scott Nina & Norman Wright*** Karen & Craig** Ken R. Alexander Colleen Sexsmith Zorzella Family Kathy Marton* Isobel Allen Claire Shaw Anonymous (2) Mary McGowan**** Ms Sandra Alston June Shaw, in memory of Jil McIntosh** Ms Ann Andrusyszyn Dr. Ralph Shaw CONTRIBUTING FRIENDS Mr. Bruce McKeown**** Callie Archer R. Bonnie Shettler $700 – $1,099 Sylvia M. McPhee**** Renata Arens & Elizabeth Frey Dr. Joseph So Sean Adams Dr. Alan C. Middleton*** Mrs. Rosalen Armstrong William Siegel & Margaret Swaine Ms Jessie Albanese Mr. James Milligan** Tony & Anne Arrell Paul Spafford Nancy and Arthur Ameis Charitable Randy Mills* Ron Atkinson & Bruce Blandford David E. Spiro Fund** Kamini & Lynne Milnes* Mr. L. H. Bartelink Dr. D. P. Stanley-Porter Leila Appleford*** John Mogan* J. Linden Best & James G. Kerr Doreen L. Stanton Dr. I. L. Babb Fund at the Toronto Frank & Anne Moir*** Mr. Philip J. Boswell Drs. W. & K. Stavraky Community Foundation**** Marilyn & Amy Mushinski† David Bowen Lilly Offenbach Strauss In memory of M. Baptista*** Peter Naylor Marnie M. Bracht Janet Stubbs† Mrs. Alyson Barnett Cowan* Liviu Constantin Nicolescu Gregory Brandt Ann Sutton Peter & Leslie Barton*** Mrs. Sara Nixon Ms Cindy Breslin-Carere Ronald Taber Mrs. Lynn Bayer*** Ms Cristina Oke*** Marcia Lewis Brown Susanne Tabur Jeniva Berger**** Karen Olinyk†* Brian Bucknall & Mrs. Ann C. Timpson Anthony Bird**** Miroslava Ondrack & Mary Jane Mossman Riki Turofsky & Charles Petersen Gabrielle Bray Bryn Greer-Wootten**** Dita Vadron & Jim Catty Tony & Mary van Straubenzee Mary Brock & Brian Iler**** Mr. Vlad Ovchinnikov & Mrs. Ann Christie N. Suzanne Vanstone Murray & Judy Bryant*** Mrs. Lesia Menchynska* Earl Clark Marie-Laure Wagner Brian Bucknall & Joan Pape**** Stephen Clarke & Elizabeth Black Hugh & Colleen Washington Mary Jane Mossman**** Mr. James C. Pappas**** The Rt. Hon. Adrienne Clarkson William R. Waters R + J Burkholder* Dr. Wadermar A. Pieczonka**** Brian Collins & Amanda Demers Brian Wilks Ms Judith Burrows*** Mr. John Prezioso Earlaine Collins Marion York Mr. Bill Cameron** Ed & Beth Price*** David H. Cormack Tricia Younger Betty Carlyle**** Robert Radke Ninalee Craig Anonymous (38) Mark Cestnik & Natercia Sousa**** Mrs. Richard Gavin Reid** Anita Day & Robert McDonald George Clark** Mr. Jason Roberts*** Ann De Brouwer Joe T. R. Clarke**** Ms Virginia Robeson** Helen Drake Mr. Philip J. Conlon*** Mrs. Gertrude Rosenthal**** Yvonne Earle Mr. Scott Connell and Joe & Diane Rosenthal in memory** David & Kristin Ferguson Corporate Ms Anouchka Freybe Mr. Anthony Rubin**** Carol Fordyce Anita Corrigan*** Mr. Paul Sabourin Rowland D. Galbraith Matching Partners William Cowan & Elodie Fourquet** Patti & Richard Schabas** Douglas G. Gardner The Canadian Opera Company Mr. & Mrs. Michael Davies**** Front Desk Ltd./Toby Schertzer Susan Gerhard gratefully acknowledges the Don DeBoer & Brent Vickar*** Marlene Pollock Sheff** Ann J. Gibson Mr. Michael Disney** Doug & Devika Short* following organizations that have Tina & Michael Gooding matched gifts by their employees: Mr. Arthur English** Alison Smith & James Morrow Michael & Anne Gough Joe & Helen Feldmann*** Mrs. Pamela Smith*** Donald I. F. Graham Burgundy Asset Management Ltd. Margaret & Jim Fleck* John Spears and Colin Gruchy Canadian Tire Corporation Limited Tom Flemming**** Elisabeth Marsden**** David G. Hallman IBM Canada Ltd. Jennifer & Frank Flower**** Phil Spencer**** George & Irene Hamilton Ivanhoe Cambridge Inc Marie-Lison Fougere** Georgina S. Steinsky Joan L. Harris Angelo Furgiuele & Family* Dr. J. H. Tait* William E. Hewitt Goodman & Company, Investment Hugh Furneaux**** Ms Michelle Tan** James Hewson Counsel Ltd. Douglas G. Gardner**** Larry & Judy Tanenbaum**** John R. Higgins Dr. Hugh Gayler & Terry S. Tator*** Mr. Kim Yim Ho & Ms Eileen Martin**** Dr. Claude Tousignant** Walter Frederic Thommen Mr. M. Gerwin & Mrs. J. Rutledge** Dr. Nancy F. Vogan**** Douglas E. Hodgson Alison Girling & Paul Schabas** Mr. Wayne Vogan†**** Michiel Horn In Memory of Victoria Woods* Halina & Kurt von dem Hagen** Matt Hughes Les & Marion Green**** George Vona & Lark Popov** Michael & Linda Hutcheon Ms Julianna Greenspan Angela & Michael Vuchnich**** Elaine Iannuzziello Dr. & Mrs. Voldemars Gulens**** Dr. O. R. Waler* Dr. Ingrid Jarvis Dr. & Mrs. Brian & Cynthia Hands**** Joan Williams**** Lynne Jeffrey Sandra Hausman** David A. Young Ann Kadrnka Mrs. Hana Havlicek-Martinek* Ms Iris Zawadowski** Ben Kizemchuk W. L. B. Heath**** Yvonne Zhang The above Individual Support Gifts were Kathryn Kossow made as of December 2, 2016 Barbara & John Hepburn* Anonymous (14) Jo Lander Dr. Paul Cooper & Mr. David Hiebert Peggy Lau * five to nine years of support In memory of Pauline Hinch** Marjorie & Roy Linden Sheila Hockin** ** 10 to 14 years of support Tom C. Logan, A.R.C.T. *** 15 to 19 years of support Dr. Elizabeth Hodby* Ms Lenore MacDonald Richard & Donna Holbrook**** The Encore Legacy **** 20 or more years of support The Encore Legacy is the planned Dr. Colin M. Mailer † COC administration, chorus or orchestra Mr. Josef Hrdina** R. Manke In loving memory of giving program of the Canadian member Tim & Jane Marlatt ‡ Endowment Joyce Whitney Hughes* Opera Company. Mr. Shawn Martin James Hughes*** Margaret McKee Despite the staff’s extensive efforts to Mr. Chris Ibey*** Planned giving is making the Sylvia M. McPhee Xiao Jiang avoid errors and omissions, mistakes can decision today to provide a gift for John McVicker & B. W. Thomas occur. If your name was omitted, listed Douglas & Dorothy Joyce**** Dr. Alan C. Middleton Allan J. Fox and Suanne Kelman** the Canadian Opera Company that incorrectly or misspelled, we apologize for may not be realized until after your Eleanor Miller any inconvenience this may have caused. Lilian Kilianski† & Brian Pritchard* Sigmund & Elaine Mintz Mai Kirch**** lifetime. We would appreciate being notified of Donald Morse any errors at 416-847-4949. Mr. & Mrs. I. P. & O. M. Komarnicky*** Sue Mortimer

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 59 2016/2017 Corporate Sponsors and Foundation Supporters

Presenting Sponsor Official Automotive Sponsor Opera Under 30, Preferred Credit Card of the COC at the FSCPA Operanation, and Centre Stage TD® Aeroplan® Visa Infinite Privilege*

Supporter of Ensemble Studio and Centre Stage Presenting Sponsor of Share the Opera

Official Canadian Wine Production Sponsor Production Sponsor Title Sponsor of the COC at the FSCPA Puccini’s Tosca Mozart’s The Magic Flute Children’s Education Programs

Ticket Back Sponsor Preferred Hospitality Sponsor

GOVERNMENT SUPPORT The Canadian Opera Company gratefully acknowledges the generous support through operating grants from these government agencies and departments:

OPERATING SUPPORT ENSEMBLE STUDIO AND ENDOWMENT SUPPORT

an Ontario government agency un organisme du gouvernement de l’Ontario

SPECIAL PROJECT FUNDING For many programs and special initiatives undertaken each year by the Canadian Opera Company, we gratefully acknowledge project funding from: Department of Canadian Heritage Employment and Social Development Canada Ontario Arts Council

60 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 $100,000 + HOSTING SPONSORS Event Sponsors The Slaight Family Foundation Drake One Fifty BT/A Nota Bene Restaurant Cacao Barry $50,000 – $99,999 Chairman Mills Chair-man Mills Inc. PREFERRED FLORISTS CXBO The Hal Jackman Foundation at the Bloom The Flower Company The Knot Group Ontario Arts Foundation Quince Flowers Mill St. Brewery Mount Gay Rum $10,000 – $49,999 Nestle Waters Canada Audrey S. Hellyer Charitable Foundation CENTRE STAGE GALA 2015 Pink Twig Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Ryan Emberley Photography Burgundy Asset Management Limited Platinum Supporters Toronto Life Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP Peter M. Deeb Trius Goldman Sachs Mercedes-Benz Canada 10tation Event Catering Great-West Life Assurance Company RBC and RBC Foundation Wellington Printworks Jackman Foundation Anonymous (2) J.P. Bickell Foundation Opera Under 30 Sponsor Linden & Associates TD Bank Group The Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation SEASON LAUNCH CELEBRATION McCarthy Tetrault Competition Supporter 2016 The Mclean Foundation Hal Jackman Foundation Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP Lead Sponsor Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Gold Sponsors TD® Aeroplan® Visa Infinite Privilege* Card Shangri-la hotel, Toronto Brookfield Asset Management Tesari Charitable Foundation Philip Deck & Kimberley Bozak Anonymous (1) Linden & Associates Scotiabank FINE WINE AUCTION 2016 $5,000 – $9,999 The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Presenting Sponsors Foundation OPERANATI0N 2016 Graywood Group The Hope Charitable Foundation PwC Canada Local 58 Charitable Benefit Fund Presenting Sponsor Michael Gibbens & Julie Lassonde Mill Street Brewery TD Bank Group The Peterson Family Charitable Partnering Sponsors Foundation Entertainment Host Gillam Group Inc. Shinex Window Cleaning Inc. Shangri-La hotel, Toronto RR Donnelley Canada Inc. Unit Park Holdings Inc. Vida Peene Fund at the Canada Council Partnering Sponsor Supporting Sponsor for the Arts Burgundy Asset Management Geoffrey Pennal of CIBC Wood Gundy

$2,500 – $4,999 Supporting Sponsor Event Sponsors Hicks Memorial Fund at the Calgary Globalive Capital 10tation Event Catering Foundation The Cheese Boutique Contributing Sponsors Trius Wines $1,000 - $2,499 Altus Securities Stephen Ranger Conam Charitable Foundation The Catalyst Capital Group Inc. Waddingtons Gill Ratcliffe Foundation Ewing Morris & Co Jarvis & Associates Growth and Income .ca Judith Teller Foundation Milborne Real Estate Inc. Loch-Sloy Holdings Limited Priority Access Realty Corp. The Powis Family Foundation

PHOTO CREDITS COVER: COC props department, photo: COC, 2016. PAGE 3: Alexander Neef, photo: bohuang.ca, 2016. PAGE 4, 6, 8: photos: Michael Cooper. PAGES 10 and 11: photos: Robert C. Ragsdale. PAGES 12 and 13, photos: Michael Cooper. PAGE 14: top: Andrew Haji as Rodolfo in La Bohème (Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 2015), photo: J. David Levy; bottom: photo courtesy of Andrew Haji. PAGE 16: photo: Michael Cooper. PAGE 18: photo: Gary Beechey. PAGES 21, 23: photos: Michael Cooper. PAGE 24: photo: bohuang.ca. PAGE 25: photo: Pierre Gautreau. PAGE 27: photo: Michael Cooper. PAGE 29: photos courtesy of AtG. PAGES 32 and 33: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 15, photos: Gaetz Photography; 5, photo: Michael Cooper; 8: photo: Ryan Emberley; 9, 11, 13, 14 and 16: photos: COC; 10: photo courtesy of Dave Feheley; 12: photo courtesy of Polycultural Immigrant and Community Services. PAGE 38: Photo: Joey Lopez. PAGE 44: Adrianne Pieczonka as Tosca (foreground) with (left to right, background) Mark Delavan as Scarpia and David Cangelosi as Spoletta in Tosca (COC, 2012), photo: Michael Cooper. PAGE 46: photo courtesy of Ambur Braid. PAGE 47: photos: Rick Hiebert Art Consulting. PAGE 51: A scene from The Nightingale and Other Short Fables (COC, 2009), photo: Michael Cooper. PAGE 62: Photo: Joey Lopez

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 61 FOOD AND BEVERAGE SERVICE We are pleased to offer, for the convenience of all our patrons, a pre-order system for intermission purchases. Our pre-order system is designed to decrease your wait time at the bar during intermisison and we invite you to make use of it at every COC performance. Bars are located throughout the Isadore and Rosalie Sharp City Room’s many levels.

Food and beverages are not permitted in R. Fraser Elliott Hall.

PATRON INFORMATION AND POLICIES

COAT AND PARCEL CHECK To uphold the safety of the CHILDREN AND BABES-IN-ARMS All patrons, including building, oversized bags and parcels may be prohibited from children, must have a ticket for the performance. All children entering R. Fraser Elliott Hall. Patrons attending COC must be seated next to an accompanying adult. Young children performances may be offered complimentary parcel check. should be able to sit quietly throughout the performance. If Coat check is located in the Lower Lobby, where the following unable to do so, children and their accompanying adult will services are also available: booster seats, back supports, infrared be asked to leave the auditorium. Babes-in-arms will not be hearing-assistive devices and rental of binoculars, on a first- admitted. come, first-served basis. MEDICAL EMERGENCIES AND FIRST AID A house doctor is GO SCENT FREE In consideration of patrons with allergies, present at all performances. Please contact an usher if medical please avoid wearing perfumed beauty products and fragrances. services are required.

NOISE ETIQUETTE Patrons are reminded that R. Fraser Elliott LOST AND FOUND During performances please speak with an Hall is an extremely lively auditorium and that all audience noise usher or visit Patron Services at the Coat Check in the Lower will be accentuated and audible to other patrons. Turn off all Lobby. Following performances, please e-mail lostandfound@ electronic devices, avoid talking, coughing, humming, moving coc.ca or call 416-342-5200 for information. loose seats, kicking the backs of seats, rustling programs, and unwrapping candies or cough drops. Please remain in your seat TICKET SERVICES until the performance has completely ended and the house Canadian Opera Company subscriptions and individual tickets lights have been turned on. are available through COC Ticket Services ONLINE: coc.ca ELECTRONIC DEVICES The use of mobile and smartphones BY PHONE: 416-363-8231 or long distance 1-800-250-4653 and all other electronic devices is extremely disruptive and Monday to Friday – 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. is strictly prohibited during performances. If a patron has an Saturday – 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. emergency and needs to be contacted during a performance, he IN PERSON: Four Seasons Centre Box Office or she should contact Patron Services for assistance before the 145 Queen St. W. performance. Monday to Saturday – 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. or through first intermission CAMERAS/RECORDING DEVICES The use of cameras, video Sunday (performance days only) – 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. cameras or sound-recording devices of any kind is prohibited or through first intermission in R. Fraser Elliott Hall during performances. If you’d like to get The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Box Office also a picture inside the auditorium, do so before the performance services ticketing needs for The National Ballet of Canada and all begins. However, the design and direction of the production is other Four Seasons Centre events. restricted under intellectual property law, so patrons must have the permission of the COC to take pictures of the production’s GROUP SALES Groups of 10 or more enjoy savings on regular set or the stage before or during performances. Any person individual ticket prices. For more information or to reserve seats using an unauthorized recording device will be required to call 416-306-2356. surrender or erase any recordings, photographic or digital images and may be asked to leave. No refunds will be issued. Be PARKING There is parking on a first-come, first-served basis sure to take a look at our Facebook page for official photos of for about 200 vehicles underneath the Four Seasons Centre. our productions! The entrance is located on the west side of York Street, south of Queen Street. Additional parking is conveniently located just LATECOMERS In the interest of safety and for the comfort steps away in the Green P lot underneath Nathan Phillips Square. of all patrons and performers, latecomers may not enter the For directions visit greenp.com. auditorium or be seated unless there is a suitable break in the performance (usually intermission). Patrons leaving the FOUR SEASONS CENTRE FACILITY TOURS Tours of the Four auditorium during the performance or returning late after Seasons Centre include backstage access! For more information, intermission may not be readmitted or may be accommodated in visit fourseasonscentre.ca. an alternate viewing location. PRE-PERFORMANCE OPERA CHATS COC Education and FOOD AND BEVERAGE Outside food and beverages are Outreach staff and guest speakers offer free, insightful chats prohibited from entering the venue. about the stories, music and background of all COC productions, 45 minutes prior to each performance in the Richard Bradshaw RECORDINGS Patrons consent to appear in recorded material Amphitheatre. Doors open one hour before each performance. by attending FSC performances/events. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first served basis. Please join the line-up early to avoid disappointment. OBJECTIONABLE BEHAVIOUR Management reserves the right to refuse admission without refund, and expel from the premises, SPECIAL EVENTS AND CATERING The Four Seasons Centre any person whose presence or conduct is deemed objectionable. is available for rental for all of your presentation, meeting or special events needs, with spaces accommodating from 20 to 2,000 people and full catering services. For further details visit fourseasonscentre.ca or call 416-342-5233. 62 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2016/2017 From passion to production

Blakes salutes the beautiful combination of rigour and inspiration that brings art to life. We are proud to sponsor the Canadian Opera Company.

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