{"id":4765,"date":"2012-06-26T05:47:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T10:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=4765"},"modified":"2012-06-26T05:47:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T10:47:58","slug":"soprano-xin-wang-only-torontonian-among-opera-winners-of-dora-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2012\/06\/26\/soprano-xin-wang-only-torontonian-among-opera-winners-of-dora-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Soprano Xin Wang only Torontonian among opera winners of Dora Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4769\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4769\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/graham.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4769\" title=\"graham\" src=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/graham.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/06\/graham.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/06\/graham-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/06\/graham-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham won a Dora last night for outstanding performance in an opera for her starring role in the Canadian Opera Company&#8217;s <em>Iphig\u00e9nie en Tauride<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Canadian Opera Company did well at the 2012 Dora Awards, Toronto&#8217;s annual salute to its theatre, musical theatre, opera and dance productions.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The company earned two awards for its presentation of Robert Carsen&#8217;s well-travelled and widely acclaimed conception of Christoph von Gluck&#8217;s <em>Iphig\u00e9nie en Tauride<\/em>, and one for its own new double-bill production of <em>A Florentine Tragedy\/Gianni Schicchi<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Svadba &#8211; Wedding<\/em>, by Montreal composer Ana Sokolovic, won the prize for Outstanding New Musical or Opera for Queen of Puddings Music Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>The only Torontonian to win an opera-related award was soprano Xin Wang, for her work in Theatre Direct&#8217;s remount of <em>Sanctuary Song<\/em>, an opera by Abigail Richardson and Marjorie Chan developed by Tapestry New Opera Works and premiered at Luminato four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the list of opera-related awards from last night:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Outstanding Set Design (General Theatre Production): Wilson Chin (<em>A Florentine Tragedy\/Gianni Schicchi<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Outstanding Production (Opera): <em>Iphig\u00e9nie en Tauride<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Outstanding Performance (Opera): Susan Graham (<em>Iphig\u00e9nie en Tauride<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Outstanding Performance (Theatre for Young Audiences): Xin Wang (<em>Sanctuary Song<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Outstanding New Musical or Opera (Musical Theatre): <em>Svadba &#8211; Wedding<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Opera Company did well at the 2012 Dora Awards, Toronto&#8217;s annual salute to its theatre, musical theatre, opera and dance productions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5,36,39,43,62,63],"tags":[6450,266,628,1076,1637,2323,6467,2734,2923,3190,3195,6474,3625],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/06\/graham.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-1eR","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765"}],"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=4765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4765"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}