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Jan 21 2025
The Journal of Hélène Berr Bernard Foccroulle
The Royal Conservatory of Music
Mazzoleni Concert Hall
Jan 22 2025
The Journal of Hélène Berr Bernard Foccroulle
The Royal Conservatory of Music
Mazzoleni Concert Hall
Jan 23 2025
The Journal of Hélène Berr Bernard Foccroulle
The Royal Conservatory of Music
Mazzoleni Concert Hall
Jan 24 - 30 2025
Madama Butterfly Puccini
Canadian Opera Company
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts
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CANADIANS NEXT ON STAGE
The Journal of Hélène Berr Bernard Foccroulle
The Royal Conservatory of Music
The Journal of Hélène Berr Bernard Foccroulle
The Royal Conservatory of Music
The Journal of Hélène Berr Bernard Foccroulle
The Royal Conservatory of Music
Madama Butterfly Puccini
Canadian Opera Company
La bohème PUCCINI
Glyndebourne
Lewes, UK
CANADIAN(S): Jordan de Souza, Conductor
What the Glyndebourne Festival says about the opera:
‘To be alone in winter is a terrible thing’
Sometimes love just isn’t enough.
When seamstress Mimì meets the struggling writer Rodolfo they are instantly drawn together. But while Paris is a magical city of love, it’s also a very real place of hardship as the two young Bohemians and their friends soon discover, when not just jealousy but poverty and sickness tear them apart.
In La bohème Puccini created an opera in which ordinary people are elevated to the level of the extraordinary, the tragic, the timeless – transformed by a score that has seduced generations of audiences. Conversational and familiar, atmospheric and emotionally amplified, La bohème paints the complexity of human relationships in all their many shades, framing them with wonderfully vivid, bustling scenes of Parisian life. Comedy and tragedy are woven tightly together in an irresistible flow of melody and drama.
Floris Visser directs an exciting young cast in Glyndebourne’s first new La bohème for over 20 years. Jordan de Souza conducts.
A new production for Festival 2022. Sung in Italian with English supertitles.
Editor-in-Chief of Opera Canada from May 1, 2022 – May 15, 2024. Before moving to the editorial side, she was a publicist for opera singers, classical instrumentalists and arts organizations for over a decade. She says of her work: “It’s a lifestyle, not a job”.