OPERA NEWS:
Nightingale sings in Brooklyn
4 MAR/11

JOHN COULBOURN - QMI Agency

Forget Berkeley Square. Our Nightingale is singing in Brooklyn — and they love it.

The Canadian Opera Company’s production of THE NIGHTINGALE AND OTHER SHORT FABLES — Robert Lepage’s acclaimed mixed program of opera — is following up its acclaimed 2009 run at the Four Seasons Centre here in Toronto with a run at the prestigious Brooklyn Academy of Music, where it opened March 1. And, once again, critical response is enthusiastic.

The New York Times describes it as “more splendid” than a pivotal scene in a Zefferelli production at the Met, while the New York Post calls Lepage “one of the most imaginative directors currently active” and praises his work for both its “pure magic” and its “child-like wonder.”

And while praise was high for soprano Olga Peretyatko and the rest of the cast, the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra and chorus and their music director Johannes Debus drew praise for their vibrancy as well.
THE NIGHTINGALE runs at BAM through Sunday.