Not only, but especially, in these challenging economic times it is very important to maintain the COC's capacity to produce new works and new productions of existing operas.
Over the years, the COC has built an international reputation for performing unusual repertoire extremely well. The Nightingale and Other Short Fables is just the latest example. But we also need to build new productions of the most important pieces of the standard repertoire, i.e. the 10 to 15 most popular operas by Mozart, Verdi, Puccini and a few other composers.
If we own productions of these pieces, they are between 15 and 30 years old and many of our subscribers and patrons have seen them many times. They deserve to rediscover these pieces in more recent production of the highest quality. This will be a major focus of our programming over the next 10 years while we continue to explore the endlessly fascinating universe of unusual works, works that have never been performed by the COC or haven't been performed by the COC in a very long time.
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