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In His Own Words

Alexander Neef, General Director


4/25/2010

A True Sense of Occasion

There was a true sense of occasion yesterday evening at the Four Seasons Centre for the opening night of our Flying Dutchman. For the first time, «mon Johannes» (as I call him when I speak with my wife) stepped in the pit to conduct a performance as the COC's Music Director. From the company box on the Grand Ring I have an excellent view of the pit and it was wonderful to observe our musicians' commitment and response to their new leader's generous music-making during the performance.


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11/17/2009

Two wonderful singers, a writer and a quiz

At lunchtime today at the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, we were very lucky to host the launch of the great Adrianne Pieczonka's latest CD, a program of exquisite Puccini arias of which she sang a few. What a treat to have the reigning Canadian dramatic soprano perform in our Free Concert Series!

Adrianne also gave us a wonderful talk on her love for Puccini's melodies, the challenges of carefully constructing a career and many other things. Being the discreet person she is she prudently didn't reveal her projects with the COC, so it is up to chatty me to tell you that we will be proud to have her back every year as of next season. If you want to guess what her roles will be: so far there are two she is famous for all over the world and two she will sing for the first time at the COC.


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10/25/2009

Catch up on a calm Sunday afternoon

Before I have to leave for the opera house for my intermission duty at today's performance of Mamada Butterfly I profit from a calm early Sunday afternoon to catch up with the blog.
 
Since my return from New York on Tuesday afternoon it has been a wonderfully busy week filled with cultural events of all kinds.


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