{"id":17329,"date":"2014-01-30T08:46:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T13:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=17329"},"modified":"2014-01-30T08:46:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T13:46:22","slug":"toronto-based-kevin-mallon-named-interim-artistic-director-of-ottawas-opera-lyra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2014\/01\/30\/toronto-based-kevin-mallon-named-interim-artistic-director-of-ottawas-opera-lyra\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto-based Kevin Mallon named interim artistic director of Ottawa&#8217;s Opera Lyra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/mallon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17335\" alt=\"Kevin Mallon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/mallon.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/mallon.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/mallon-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ottawa&#8217;s Opera Lyra has announced that Kevin Mallon will begin a one-year stint as interim artistic director this July, and has already begun working with the producer in an unofficial capacity.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Opera Lyra recently clawed its way out of a financial crisis which saw it suspend productions in 2011 and launch a major restructuring. In August of 2013, board chair Victor Rabinovitch announced that the company had fixed its finances and repaid its debts.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after that, artistic director Tyrone Paterson announced that he would leave at the end of this, the 2013-14 season, Opera Lyra&#8217;s 29th. It featured <em>Carmen<\/em> and <em>The Pirates of Penzance<\/em> last fall, with a production of <em>Madama Butterfly<\/em> still to come in April.<\/p>\n<p>Mallon has had a presence in Ottawa since taking over the artistic directorship of the Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>In Toronto, Mallon is the founding artistic director of the Aradia Ensemble, a freelance, period-instrument orchestra whose next engagement is with Voicebox\/Opera in Concert&#8217;s presentation of Jean-Philippe Rameau&#8217;s <em>Hippolyte et Aricie<\/em> at the Jane Mallett Theatre <a href=\"http:\/\/www.operainconcert.com\/Hippolyte.html\" target=\"_blank\">on Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mallon is also in his first season as music director of Orchestra Toronto, a community group based in North York.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa&#8217;s Opera Lyra has announced that Kevin Mallon will begin a one-year stint as interim artistic director this July, and has already begun working with the producer in an unofficial capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[117,875,36,39,43,62],"tags":[6480,4417,6484,3926,6464,4420,2544],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/mallon.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-4vv","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17329"}],"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=17329"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17337,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17329\/revisions\/17337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17329"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}