OPERA NEWS: COC’s Nightingale flying to New York
14 Oct'10

JOHN COULBOURN - QMI Agency

The Canadian Opera Company will take its acclaimed production of THE NIGHTINGALE AND OTHER SHORT FABLES to the prestigious Brooklyn Academy of Music where it will play for four performances, Mar. 1-6, as part of BAM’s 2011 spring season, it was announced Thursday.

Featuring the music of Igor Stravinsky and direction by Canadian visionary Robert Lepage, THE NIGHTINGALE premiered at Toronto’s Four Seasons Centre in 2009 and, after playing the prestigious Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in July of this year, is now being performed at the Opera National de Lyon. It has garnered critical and audience acclaim everywhere it has played.

Tickets for the Brooklyn engagement will go on sale Jan. 10 at BAM.org.