{"id":1382,"date":"2012-02-07T11:13:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T16:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicaltorontodotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2012-02-07T11:13:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T16:13:28","slug":"opera-atelier-leaves-baroque-behind-as-it-announces-der-freischutz-for-2012-13-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2012\/02\/07\/opera-atelier-leaves-baroque-behind-as-it-announces-der-freischutz-for-2012-13-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Opera Atelier leaves Baroque behind as it announces Der Freisch\u00fctz for 2012-13 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1383\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1383\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/spicer.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1383\" title=\"spicer\" src=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/spicer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/spicer.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/spicer-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tenor Kresimir Spicer will sing Max in Opera Atelier&#039;s new production of Der Freisch\u00fctz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Opera Atelier has just announced its 2012-13 season of two productions. It&#8217;s probably the first time in the company&#8217;s quarter century that there won&#8217;t be a Baroque-era opera on its Elgin Theatre season.<\/p>\n<p>The season opens with the most recently-composed opera yet for the company: Carl Maria von Weber&#8217;s Der Freisch\u00fctz, a not-frequently-produced landmark work that ushered in the Romantic era on the German opera stage in 1821.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is part of the company\u2019s ongoing mission to shake off the preconceptions about &#8216;period production&#8217; by reimagining and revitalizing the great works of the entire operatic canon,&#8221; says this morning&#8217;s press release.<\/p>\n<p>The title role will be sung by tenor Kresimir Spicer, who has become a welcome guest in Opera Atelier productions over recent seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The curtain rises on the new production on Oct. 27.<\/p>\n<p>The second production is a revival of Opera Atelier&#8217;s lively and colourful take on Mozart&#8217;s The Magic Flute, with returning principals Colin Ainsworth as Tamino and Olivier Laquerre as Papageno. It opens on April 6.<\/p>\n<p>David Fallis is set to conduct the Tafelmusik period-instrument orchestra in both productions, which will be directed by Opera Atelier co-artistic director Marshall Pynkoski and feature the Opera Atelier ballet corps, choreographed by Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg.<\/p>\n<p>All the details should be posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.operaatelier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opera Atelier has just announced its 2012-13 season of two productions. It&#8217;s probably the first time in the company&#8217;s quarter century that there won&#8217;t be a Baroque-era opera on its Elgin Theatre season. The season opens with the most recently-composed opera yet for the company: Carl Maria von Weber&#8217;s Der Freisch\u00fctz, a not-frequently-produced landmark work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39,43,46,63],"tags":[111,654,966,1008,1882,2118,2287,2494,2507,3223,3279],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/spicer.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-mi","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}