OPERA NEWS: COC hitting high notes
15 JUN/11

JOHN COULBOURN - QMI Agency

TORONTO - As the curtain falls on its fifth season in the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, the Canadian Opera Company has plenty of reason to celebrate. Not only has the season been a success, generating revenues of over $12 million and playing to 94% capacity, it also garnered a total of 11 Dora nominations for theatrical and operatic excellence for the company in the process.

It also saw the company undertake its second tour in 18 years to the prestigious Brooklyn Academy of Music, where the company’s dazzling production of Robert Lepage’s The Nightingale and Other Short Fables met with both critical and audience acclaim.

In total, 127,387 patrons attended the 66 performances of the seven productions that comprised the COC 2010/11 season, while an additional 15,000 took advantage of the free concert series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre.

The COC launches its new season Sept. 22 with the company première of Gluck’s Iphigenia in Tauris, directed by Robert Carson and designed by Michael Levine. A complete rundown of the season is available at coc.ca.