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During the 2018/2019 season Pacific Opera staged three distinctive productions in the Royal Theatre and presented a gripping multi-cultural song cycle in the Baumann Centre. The season also brought a continued expansion and even greater variety to Pacific Opera’s suite of community engagement and youth education initiatives.
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“Tenor Brent Reilly Turner was a force of nature as Florestan. Remarkably strong and dynamic in vocal performance, his moment in prison of chasing a single beam of light across his cell was heartbreaking.
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2 “The POV chorus deserves a huge shoutout for this production, the chorus numbers were incredibly precise, blended perfectly, and the choreography in the large number of dance routines they were given was brilliant.... They were a constant source of fun and endlessly entertaining.” Melissa Ratcliff, Schmopera
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