![]() ![]() I’ve seen her work before, and I must say I generally like her approach to updating standard repertoire pieces. Photo: Lance Gitter Opera within a movie conceptįor this show, Opera York assembled a strong cast of young singers and experienced veterans, under the stage direction of Renee Salewski. The orchestra pit is very small, so don’t expect Wagner or Strauss, but for Mozart it’s an ideal house.Ĭarla-Grace Colaguori (Barbarina) and Beste Kalender (Cherubino) in Opera York’s Le nozze di Figaro. RHPA is blessed with excellent acoustics and terrific sightlines, ideal for young voices. This intimate 650-seat theatre was designed by Jack Diamond, whose firm was also behind the much bigger and flashier Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, home of the Canadian Opera Company. ![]() ![]() The venue the last ten years has been the excellent Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. OY’s spring production this season was that old standard, The Marriage of Figaro, as usual sung in Italian with English surtitles. Opera York at Jack Diamond-designed theatre While modest in scale, one can always count on plenty of enthusiasm and youthful spirit. I’ve heard many fine young voices in the dozen or so years I’ve been attending, usually in warhorses such as Carmen and Tosca, plus the occasional rarity like the Israeli opera, And The Rat Laughed. Now in its 21 st season, Opera York continues its tradition of bringing opera to the York Region, which is roughly the area immediately north of Toronto and Highway 7. ![]()
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