Heat up your winter with the Canadian Opera Company’s bash Operanation 6, Habanera, which lights up the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto on Feb. 26, 2010. Operanation, the company’s annual fundraiser, is the must-attend event of the year that brings together classic culture and young urban professionals who share a love of the arts and a great party! This year the exclusive cocktail reception celebrates the essence of Bizet’s sizzling-hot opera Carmen. 

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The reviews are in for Carmen!

Ken Winters, Globe and Mail

"Israeli mezzo-soprano Rinat Shaham was a stunning Camen - to see, to hear, to experience dramatically, New Orleans tenor Bryan Hymel turned in a passionate and thrillingly sung Don José. Canadian soprano Jessica Muirhead was a persuasive and touching Micaëla. The three, beautifully abetted by the COC orchestra under Scottish conductor Rory Macdonald and the COC chorus trained by Sandra Horst, provided a stirring musico-dramatic core, which sustained us through this astonishing, beautiful and still-upsetting work."

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Toronto, Ontario—The Canadian Opera Company announced today that young Georgian mezzo-soprano, Anita Rachvelishvili will make her COC debut singing the last four performances of Carmen on Feb. 17, 20, 23, 27, 2010 at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts.  Israeli mezzo-soprano Rinat Shaham was previously announced to sing the first six performances, but will instead perform the first eight on Jan. 27, 30, Feb. 2, 5, 7, 9, 11, 14, 2010.

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