Canadian Opera Company.(Toronto)

From: Opera Canada | Date: June 22, 2004| Author: Littler, William | Copyright information

The Canadian Opera Company's final production of the season was not on the level. Michael Yeargan's San Francisco Opera sets raked the floors and tilted the walls and arches of the Duke of Mantua's palace as if to turn Verdi's Rigoletto into a surrealist homage to Giorgio de Chirico. Alas, the stylization ended there. England-based, Canadian stage director Adrian Osmond did little to energize or give visual panache to the stage action, leaving the singers more or less to stand and ...

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