OPERA NEWS: Atelier goes gold for silver
2 Feb'10

JOHN COULBOURN - QMI Agency

Opera Atelier is gearing up to celebrate its silver anniversary — and true to form for a company with a baroque gilt complex, they're doing everything to ensure that their silver anniversary season will be nothing if not golden.

To launch its 2010/11 season, the company will revisit Handel's ACIS AND GALATEA, a work they last tackled in the early '90s. Tenor Thomas Macleay and soprano Mireille Asselin will essay the title roles under the direction of Marshall Pynkoski.

For the second show in its two-show season, OA will produce North America's first period production of Mozart's LA CLAMENZA DI TITO, while Pynkoski will once again direct this fourth production in the company's Mozart Six plan, which already includes IDOMENEO, THE ABDUCTION OF THE SERAGLIO and THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO (which will open in a new production in April). No casting is yet available.

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