{"id":17138,"date":"2014-01-21T12:27:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T17:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=17138"},"modified":"2014-01-21T14:00:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T19:00:03","slug":"both-2014-15-productions-starting-with-alcina-are-new-ones-for-opera-atelier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2014\/01\/21\/both-2014-15-productions-starting-with-alcina-are-new-ones-for-opera-atelier\/","title":{"rendered":"Both 2014-15 productions, starting with Alcina, are new ones for Opera Atelier"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17139\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17139\" style=\"width: 779px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/Agathe-with-Dancers.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17139\" alt=\"Meghan Lindsay -- seen here in Der Freisch\u00fctz -- returns to Opera Atelier next season to sing Alcina (Bruce Zinger photo).\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/Agathe-with-Dancers.jpg\" width=\"779\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/Agathe-with-Dancers.jpg 779w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/Agathe-with-Dancers-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meghan Lindsay &#8212; seen here in <em>Der Freisch\u00fctz<\/em> &#8212; returns to Opera Atelier next season to sing Alcina (Bruce Zinger photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Opera Atelier announced on Tuesday morning that it will present two new productions in 2014-15: George Frideric Handel&#8217;s <em>Alcina<\/em> to open next October, and a version of Orpheus and Eurydice the following spring.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Co-artistic directors Marshall Pynkoski, who directs all Opera Atelier productions, and Jeanne Lajeunesse Zingg, who heads and choreographs the company&#8217;s corps de ballet, cite the dance music in <em>Alcina<\/em> as incentive to consider staging this Handel opera.<\/p>\n<p>The version of Orpheus in the Underworld that Torontonians will get to see at the Elgin Theatre is Hector Berlioz&#8217;s arrangement of Christoph Willibald Gluck&#8217;s much-loved opera. That production goes on stage in April, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Opera Atelier loves working with a stable ensemble, which means many familiar faces return next season.<\/p>\n<p>Singing the witchy title role in the Handel opera will be Meghan Lindsay. Mezzo Mireille Lebel makes her role d\u00e9but as Orpheus.<\/p>\n<p>David Fallis will conduct the period instruments of Tafelmusik for both productions.<\/p>\n<p>You will find all the details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.operaatelier.com\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opera Atelier announced on Tuesday morning that it will present two new productions in 2014-15: George Frideric Handel&#8217;s Alcina to open next October, and a version of Orpheus and Eurydice the following spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[117,36,39,43,62,63],"tags":[4006,209,6464,2494,4391,2957],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/Agathe-with-Dancers.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-4sq","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17138"}],"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=17138"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17144,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17138\/revisions\/17144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17138"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}