{"id":66138,"date":"2020-01-30T13:53:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T18:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=66138"},"modified":"2020-01-30T13:53:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T18:53:24","slug":"scoop-opera-atelier-announces-anniversary-season-celebrating-35-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2020\/01\/30\/scoop-opera-atelier-announces-anniversary-season-celebrating-35-years\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Opera Atelier Announces Anniversary Season Celebrating 35 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Opera Atelier Co-Artistic Director Marshall Pynkoski (Image courtesy of Opera Atelier)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Has it been 35 years already? Time flies when you\u2019re having fun.<\/p>\n

Opera Atelier (OA) announced its 35th anniversary season on Monday at an event held at Toronto\u2019s St. Lawrence Hall.<\/p>\n

OA will open with a production of Mozart\u2019s\u00a0Magic Flute\u00a0<\/em>on October 22\u2013November 1, 2020, at the Elgin Theatre. The production will be sung in English (Andrew Porter translation).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Magic Flute was a seminal production for Opera Atelier, a dramatic turning point when it premiered in 1991,\u201d said OA Co-Artistic Director Marshall Pynkoski in a press release statement \u201cAs part of our 35th Anniversary restaging, the production has been extensively refurbished \u2014 including new costumes for all of the principal artists, designed by award-winning Canadian costume designer Michael Gianfrancesco \u2014 and a new flying machine for the Queen of the Night.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Mayor
Mayor John Tory with OA Co-Artistic Directors Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg and Marshall Pynkoski (Image courtesy of Opera Atelier)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The cast includes tenor Colin Ainsworth as Tamino, Soprano Mireille Asselin as Pamina, Bass-baritone Douglas Williams as Papageno, Bass Gustav Andreassen as Sarastro, and Soprano Holly Flack as the Queen of the Night. Set design is by Gerard Gauci, and lighting design by Michelle Ramsay.<\/p>\n

On February 20\u201327, 2021, OA return with a double bill of\u00a0The Angel Speak<\/em>s\u00a0with Purcell\u2019s\u00a0Dido and Aeneas<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Backed by Toronto Children\u2019s Chorus, Dido will be sung by Meghan Lindsay, Christopher Enns will play Aeneas, Mireille Asselin sings Belinda, Allyson McHardy plays the Sorceress, and Colin Ainsworth is cast as the Sailor.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems only fitting that Dido and Aeneas be included in our 35th Anniversary,\u201d says Pynkoski. \u201cIt was the first fully-staged opera undertaken by Opera Atelier \u2014 35 years ago in the lecture hall of the Royal Ontario Museum.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Angel Speaks<\/em>\u00a0will include excerpts from their commission, by Toronto\u2019s intrepid violinist Edwin Huizinga. Originally premiered in 2017 at The Royal Chapel of Versailles, the work was also toured to Chicago last year.<\/p>\n

\"Artists
Artists of Atelier Ballet Kevin Law and Juri Hiraoka (Image courtesy of Opera Atelier)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Both productions will feature the full force of Atelier Ballet with choreography by Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg, and stage direction by Pynkoski C.M., with the music performed by Tafelmusik and music direction by early music mastermind David Fallis.<\/p>\n

Since their inception in 1985, Opera Atelier has become one of the only players in town to master period style productions of early opera, as well as classical period 19th-century works, such as Mozart\u2019s\u00a0Don Giovanni,<\/em><\/a><\/span> which has been produced five times by OA since 1996.<\/p>\n

The niche approach is being noticed. Opera Atelier\u2019s Co-Artistic Directors Pynkoski and Lajeunesse Zingg have been named Officers of the Order of Arts and Letters (l\u2019Ordre des Arts et des Lettres) by the Government of France. They will both be honoured in a ceremony on December 2021 at the Palace of Versailles.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are deeply honoured to be recognized in this way by the country whose culture we most admire,\u201d says Co-Artistic Director Lajeunesse Zingg.<\/p>\n

Season subscriptions\u00a0on sale January 28 at\u00a0operaatelier.com\/subscribe<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0Single tickets\u00a0available summer of 2020.<\/p>\n

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