MEDIA CENTRE
Welcome to the Canadian Opera Company Media Centre. It contains resources for the media including media releases and downloadable photos of COC leadership and productions for publication where relevant. The images are available to members of the media for print and online promotion of the Canadian Opera Company and its events only.
For general inquiries, including interview requests, please contact:
Avril Sequeira, Director of Public Relations
[email protected]
416-306-2387
Davin Leivonen-Fok, Communications Coordinator
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416-306-2330
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DON PASQUALE GETS A COLOURFUL MID-CENTURY MAKEOVER AT THE CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY
By Public RelationsRead the PDF version here.Posted In Press Releases
Toronto – The Canadian Opera Company ushers in spring with a feel-good comedy that hasn’t been seen on the COC stage in 30 years: Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti. This colourful adaptation from acclaimed French-Canadian creative duo Barbe & Doucet transposes the opera’s storyline to 1960s Rome, where the eccentric owner of a crumbling hotel is wreaking hilarious havoc on his nephew’s love life, together with a rag-tag group of staff that includes a chain-smoking chambermaid, a greasy cook, and a positively prehistoric porter.
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FIVE NEW PRODUCTIONS AND A COC FAVOURITE HEADLINE 2024/2025 SEASON
By Public RelationsRead the PDF version here.Posted In Press Releases
Lineup includes the first-ever COC staging of Verdi’s Nabucco and Toronto premiere of La Reine-garçon
Toronto – The Canadian Opera Company announced its 2024/2025 season today with exciting programming comprised almost entirely of new-to-Toronto productions including the first-ever COC staging of Verdi’s Nabucco, the world premiere of a new production of Gounod’s Faust, and the Toronto premiere of La Reine-garçon, a new creation from Canadians Julien Bilodeau and Michel Marc Bouchard. Other featured operas include Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Berg’s Wozzeck and Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, as well as a one-night-only concert presentation of Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana.
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EXPERIENCE MOZART’S DON GIOVANNI AS NEVER BEFORE IN A BREATHTAKING NEW PRODUCTION
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Toronto – One of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s most powerful and brilliant operas is transformed into a spectacle for the senses and a deeply thought-provoking experience in the Canadian Opera Company’s winter production of Don Giovanni. The twisted comedic masterpiece thrusts audiences into the darkly glamorous world of entitled aristocracy, where the womanizing title character has grown used to getting away with murder–that is, until his latest seduction spirals out of control and leads to an actual murder, setting off a supernatural chain of events that sees karma come calling. Don Giovanni runs for seven performances at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts on February 2, 4, 7, 9, 15, 17, and 24, 2024.
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