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Opera in Concert made its debut on October
21st, 1974 with Ambroise Thomas’ HAMLET at
the Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts. Guillermo
Silva-Marin was appointed General Director of Opera in Concert with a renewed
mandate to present operas seldom, if ever, performed in Canada. Now in its 34th
year, Opera in Concert has presented 151 operas, covering a stylistic gamut
of rarely performed operatic repertoire ranging from Handel’s
ARIODANTE to Rimsky-Korsakov’s THE TSAR’S BRIDE. Highlights include: § Featured
performances with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony
Orchestra § Featured
performances with the Aradia Ensemble § CBC
Broadcast of our 20th Anniversary performance of HAMLET § CBC
Broadcast of Thomas’ MIGNON featuring soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian § Naxos CD Recording of Rameau’s
CASTOR ET POLLUX (2004) § Naxos CD Recording of Handel’s
RINALDO (2006) § Naxos CD Recording of Vivaldi’s LA GRISELDA
(2007) § Opera
in Concert’s first season with surtitles
– 2006/07 – sponsored by Sun Life Financial Opera in Concert “...Opera in Concert deserves paeans of
praise” Geoff Chapman, The Toronto
Star “Opera in Concert is not about
presenting the Opera America Top 10 list … the organization
delivered a worthy and memorable French version of Sergei Prokofiev’s The Love for Three
Oranges” John Terauds,
Toronto Star “The 1916 Spanish zarzuela El Gato Montes by Manuel Penella was
one of Opera in Concert’s most powerful performances in
recent history” Paula Citron, Classical
96.3 FM “Opera in Concert opened its season with
a rousing
performance of Verdi’s I Masnadieri” Wayne Gooding, Opera
Canada Magazine “Unhurried, noble, stylish” Stephen Pettit, The Sunday
Times for
OIC’s CD recording RINALDO under the Naxos
Label. For more information, click on
the links below: OIC’s Founder: Stuart Hamilton OIC’s General Director: Guillermo Silva-Marin OIC’s The Backgrounder: Iain Scott OIC’s
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