CANADA
CALGARY
In the past several years, Calgary Opera productions have exhibited a consistently high level of performance. With the departure of long-time general manager David Speers to Arizona Opera, the company is now in the hands of Bob McFee, and the first opera to be fully mounted by the new regime--Verdi's Il Trovatore--struck a pothole in the previously smooth operatic road. Unlike recent productions, the principal singers were all young, clearly inexperienced ...