| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 26-Jan-2013 Salle Wilfrid Pelletier | "The Bat" meets the burlesque: Die Fledermaus with L'Opéra de Montréal |
According to General and Production Director Pierre Dufour, tonight’s production of Die Fledermaus, or in this case La Chauve Souris, was to be in the style of the vaudeville and burlesque. Set in 1930’s upper class Montréal, the production was purchased from Opera Australia though Stage Director Oriol Tomas’s conceptual influence would prove wholly original.Read full review... | |
| 4-Oct-2012 Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts | Christopher Alden goes batty for the Canadian Opera Company's Die Fledermaus |
It took me a while to warm to director Christopher Alden’s revisionist production of Johann Strauss II’s chestnut and whipped cream torte of an operetta, but gradually the outrageous battiness of it won me over.
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