Opera Connect

Thursday April 4, 2013. 12:15 p.m. AND 1:15 p.m. – Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti

Location: Waterfall Stage, First Canadian Place, 100 King Street West, Toronto

For this FREE, lunch-time event, CBC Radio’s Brent Bambury sits down with COC artists Teiya Kasahara (soprano), Adam Luther (tenor), Peter Barrett (baritone) and Christopher Mokrzewski (piano) to explore the bel canto masterpiece Lucia di Lammermoor – presented on the COC mainstage this spring.  The event will include musical samplings from the dazzling opera. 

Sunday, May 26, 2013 – Salome: Two Perspectives

Location: TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King St. W., Toronto

Time: 1:00-3:30 p.m.

FREE tickets will be distributed at the door one half hour before the event on a first-come, first-serve basis.

A trans-Atlantic discussion about Richard Strauss’s viscerally shocking opera Salome.  For this FREE event, CBC Radio’s Brent Bambury interviews celebrated Canadian filmmaker and director Atom Egoyan, who directed the COC’s production running in performance April 21 – May 22 this spring, as well as Norwegian stage director Stefan Herheim, whose own take on the opera is being mounted by the Norwegian Opera & Ballet from May 25 to June 23.  Herheim will participate from Oslo via video-link as the two directors share their individual approaches to this notoriously scandalous work.