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Canadian Opera Company

Four Seasons Centre from above.jpg
The Four Seasons Centre, home of the Canadian Opera Company.

Location 145 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Coordinates
43°39′02″N 79°23′09″W / 43.65056°N 79.38583°W / 43.65056; -79.38583Coordinates: 43°39′02″N 79°23′09″W / 43.65056°N 79.38583°W / 43.65056; -79.38583
Type Opera house
Genre(s) Opera
Seating type Reserved seating
Capacity Variable, approx. 2000–2300
Opened June 14, 2006 (2006-06-14)
Website
www.coc.ca

The Canadian Opera Company (COC) is an opera company in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the largest opera company in Canada and one of the largest producers of opera in North America. The COC performs in its own opera house, the Four Seasons Centre. For forty years until April 2006, the COC had performed at the O'Keefe Centre (later called the Hummingbird Centre before becoming the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts).




Contents






  • 1 History


  • 2 Recent Productions


    • 2.1 2008/2009 Season


    • 2.2 2009/2010 Season


    • 2.3 2010/2011 Season


    • 2.4 2011/2012 Season


    • 2.5 2012/2013 Season


    • 2.6 2013/2014 Season


    • 2.7 2014/2015 Season


    • 2.8 2015/2016 Season


    • 2.9 2016/2017 Season


    • 2.10 2017/2018 Season


    • 2.11 2018/2019 Season




  • 3 Notable members


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links





History





Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto, Ontario


Nicholas Goldschmidt and Herman Geiger-Torel founded the organization in 1950 as the Royal Conservatory Opera Company. Geiger-Torel became the COC's artistic director in 1956 and its general director in 1960. The company was renamed the Canadian Opera Association in 1960, and the Canadian Opera Company in 1977. Geiger-Torel retired from the general directorship in 1976. Lotfi Mansouri was the COC's general director from 1976 to 1988. In 1983, the COC introduced surtitles (supertitles) to their productions, the first company to use them in an opera house. Productions included Joan Sutherland's first performance of Donizetti's Anna Bolena.[1]


Brian Dickie served as the COC's general director from 1988 to 1993. Dickie named Richard Bradshaw the COC's chief conductor and head of music in 1989. Elaine Calder was the COC's general director from 1994 to 1997. In 1998, Bradshaw was named general director.[2] During his tenure, Bradshaw secured funding for the COC's new permanent home, the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts.[3] Previously, the COC had been performing at the O'Keefe Centre (renamed to the Hummingbird Centre and then the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts).


In 2006, the COC opened its new opera house with an all-new production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Michael Levine was the designer, and there were four directors: Michael Levine (Das Rheingold), Atom Egoyan (Die Walküre), François Girard (Siegfried), and Tim Albery (Götterdämmerung).


In 2006, Bradshaw's contract as general director was renewed for another 10 years. Bradshaw died of a sudden heart attack on August 15, 2007.[3] In June 2008, Alexander Neef was named the COC's general director; he formally assumed the position in October 2008.[4] In October 2008, Johannes Debus made his debut with the COC as a conductor in a production of Prokofiev's War and Peace, where he earned critical acclaim.[5] In January 2009, the COC announced the appointment of Johannes Debus as the company's music director.[6] Pianist and vocal coach Sandra Horst currently serves as the company's chorus master.[7]



Recent Productions



2008/2009 Season




  • Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


  • War and Peace (opera) by Sergei Prokofiev


  • Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven


  • Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák


  • Simon Boccanegra by Giuseppe Verdi


  • La bohème by Giacomo Puccini


  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera) by Benjamin Britten



2009/2010 Season




  • Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini


  • The Nightingale an Other Short Fables by Igor Stravinsky


  • Carmen by Georges Bizet


  • Otello by Giuseppe Verdi


  • The Flying Dutchman (opera) by Richard Wagner


  • Maria Stuarda by Gaetano Donizetti


  • Idomeneo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart



2010/2011 Season




  • Aida by Giuseppe Verdi[8]


  • Death in Venice (opera) by Benjamin Britten


  • The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


  • Nixon in China by John Adams (composer)


  • La Cenerentola by Gioachino Rossini


  • Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss


  • Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck



2011/2012 Season




  • Iphigénie en Tauride by Christoph Willibald Gluck


  • Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi


  • Tosca by Giacomo Puccini


  • L'Amour de loin by Kaija Saariaho


  • The Tales of Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach


  • Eine florentinische Tragödie by Alexander von Zemlinsky


  • Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini


  • Semele (Handel) by George Frideric Handel



2012/2013 Season




  • Il trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi


  • Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II


  • Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner


  • La clemenza di Tito by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


  • Salome (opera) by Richard Strauss


  • Dialogues des Carmélites by Francis Poulenc


  • Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti



2013/2014 Season




  • La bohème by Giacomo Puccini


  • Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten


  • Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


  • Un ballo in maschera by Giuseppe Verdi


  • Hercules (Handel) by George Frideric Handel


  • Roberto Devereux by Gaetano Donizetti


  • Don Quichotte by Jules Massenet



2014/2015 Season




  • Falstaff (opera) by Giuseppe Verdi


  • Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini


  • Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


  • Die Walküre by Richard Wagner


  • The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini


  • Bluebeard's Castle by Béla Bartók


  • Erwartung by Arnold Schoenberg



2015/2016 Season




  • La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi

  • Pyramus and Thisbe by Barbara Monk Feldman


  • Siegfried (opera) by Richard Wagner


  • The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


  • Carmen by Georges Bizet


  • Maometto II by Gioachino Rossini



2016/2017 Season




  • Norma (opera) by Vincenzo Bellini


  • Ariodante by George Frideric Handel


  • The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


  • Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner


  • Louis Riel (opera) by Harry Somers


  • Tosca by Giacomo Puccini



2017/2018 Season




  • L'elisir d'amore by Gaetano Donizetti


  • Arabella by Richard Strauss


  • Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi


  • Abduction from the Seraglio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


  • The Nightingale and Other Short Fables by Igor Stravinsky


  • Anna Bolena by Gaetano Donizetti



2018/2019 Season




  • Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky


  • Hadrian by Rufus Wainwright


  • Elektra by Richard Strauss


  • Cosi Fan Tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


  • La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini


  • Otello by Giuseppe Verdi



Notable members



  • Cornelis Opthof - longest serving member for fifty years.[9][10]


References





  1. ^ Sandra Martin (May 29, 1984). "Opera: Joan Sutherland In New Role". New York Times. Retrieved January 8, 2009..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ "Richard Bradshaw of Canadian Opera Company dies at 63". CBC News. August 16, 2007. Retrieved January 8, 2009.


  3. ^ ab Sandra Martin (August 17, 2007). "Canadian Opera Company's Richard Bradshaw dead at 63". Globe and Mail. Canada. Retrieved January 8, 2009.


  4. ^ "COC names German-born Alexander Neef as general director". CBC News. June 25, 2008. Retrieved January 8, 2009.


  5. ^ Robert Everett-Green (January 17, 2009). "Score one for the COC". Globe and Mail. Canada. Retrieved January 18, 2009.


  6. ^ Susan Noakes (January 7, 2009). "Frankfurt conductor Johannes Debus named COC music director". CBC News. Retrieved January 8, 2009.


  7. ^ William R. Braun (July 2009). "The Education of a Chorus: Sandra Horst is chorus master at both Canadian Opera Company and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis". Opera News. 74 (1). Retrieved June 24, 2009.


  8. ^ Frenette, Brad. "Canadian Opera Company to open season with 'Aida'". National Post. Retrieved 7 March 2017.


  9. ^ The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada


  10. ^ "In memoriam Cornelis Opthof (1930–2008)" ( March 22, 2009) The Free Library




External links


  • Canadian Opera Company website

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