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OPERA IN CONCERT Opera in Concert "Â…rarities in performance" (Guillermo Silva-Marin,
General Director)
Opera in Concert, founded in Toronto in 1974, has presented
over 129 operas, covering a stylistic gamut of rarely performed operatic
repertoire ranging from Handel's Ariodante to Verdi's I Vespri
Siciliani. Opera in Concert's 20th anniversary performance of Ambroise
Thomas' Hamlet was broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
and by Radio Canada followed by a second CBC radio broadcast of another Thomas
opera, Mignon with Isabel Bayrakdarian and the Kitchener-Waterloo
Symphony conducted by Robert Cooper. In 1994 Guillermo Silva-Marin was
appointed General Director of Opera in Concert with a renewed mandate to
present operas seldom, if ever performed in Canada. Marschner's Der Vampyr,
Verdi's Luisa Miller, Bellini's La Sonnambula, Arrieta's Marina,
and Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko joined the company's first Canadian works
including Timothy Sullivan's Florence, The Lady With The Lamp,
Healey Willan's Deirdre and John Beckwith's The Shivaree as
examples of the adventurous repertoire opera lovers can expect from Opera in
Concert in the new millennium. Opera in Concert has collaborated with Aradia
Ensemble performing Handel's Semele, Rameau's Castor et Pollux and
Handel's Rinaldo.
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