Canadian Opera Company 2011-2012 Season

Iphigenia in Tauris

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Thurs. Sept. 22, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.

Sun. Sept. 25, 2011 at 2 p.m.

Wed. Sept. 28, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
Sat. Oct. 1, 2011 at 4:30 p.m.
Tues. Oct. 4, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
Fri. Oct. 7, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
Wed. Oct. 12, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
Sat. Oct. 15, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.

Starring:

Susan Graham

Russell Braun

Joseph Kaiser

Mark S. Doss

Lauren Segal

Robert Pomakov

Conductor: Pablo Heras-Casado

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Reviews of the COC’s “The Flying Dutchman”

The Canadian Opera Company’s run of Wagner’s redemptive masterpiece, “Der Fliegende Holländer” ended last evening.  The following are some of the more prominent reviews the opera received in the past weeks.

The stage set for the COC’s production of “The Flying Dutchman”

John Terauds of the Toronto Star “The Flying Dutchman: Staging Swamps Talented Cast”

Ken Winters of the Globe and Mail, “The Flying Dutchman Finds its Redemption in the Singing”

Evgeny Nikitin as the Dutchman and Julie Makerov as Senta

Jamie Weinman from “Maclean’s Canada.” (The Controversial Opera Cities Love)

John Kaplan (Toronto Now) “The Flying Dutchman”