{"id":69359,"date":"2020-10-06T14:23:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T18:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=69359"},"modified":"2020-10-23T11:03:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T15:03:55","slug":"the-scoop-canadian-opera-company-cancels-all-remaining-productions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2020\/10\/06\/the-scoop-canadian-opera-company-cancels-all-remaining-productions\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Canadian Opera Company Cancels All Remaining Productions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69363\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/COC-2020-21-Season.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/COC-2020-21-Season.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/COC-2020-21-Season-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/COC-2020-21-Season-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/COC-2020-21-Season-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2020\/09\/16\/the-scoop-canadian-opera-company-temporarily-pivots-away-from-staging-opera-with-new-fall-season\/\">first announcing<\/a> the 2020-21 season last month, the Canadian Opera Company had left the door open for the possibility of returning to the Four Seasons Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the COC has confirmed that due to the ongoing uncertainty around indoor gatherings, they will be cancelling the rest of its originally planned 2020\/2021 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarlier this summer, our team made a promise to ourselves \u2014 and to our audiences \u2014 to explore every possible option for going ahead with our season,\u201d writes COC General Director Alexander Neef in a letter to subscribers. \u201cSince then, however, the changing local health situation has made it clear that cancelling our original winter and spring programming is the only safe decision for our staff, artists, and audience members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cancelled in-person productions will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bizet\u2019s\u00a0<strong><em>Carmen<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Jan\u00e1\u010dek\u2019s\u00a0<strong><em>Katya Kabanova<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Verdi\u2019s\u00a0<strong><em>La Traviata<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Gluck\u2019s\u00a0<strong><em>Orfeo ed Euridice<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The COC will also be cancelling the world premiere of\u00a0<strong><em>Fantasma<\/em><\/strong>, the Opera for Young Audiences production recently commissioned by\u00a0the COC, as well as all special events, including the COC\u2019s annual\u00a0<strong>Operanation<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Fine Wine Auction<\/strong>\u00a0fundraisers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we first announced our 20\/21 season, we had called it &#8216;monumental \u2014 a larger-than-life year, full of bustling activity and bold new opera&#8217;,\u201d added Neef. &#8220;What I\u2019m realizing now is that this season is very much still monumental \u2014 even more so, in many ways, than our original plans. This is undoubtedly one of the most challenging times in our company\u2019s history but, together, we are moving opera forward into an exciting future of new possibilities.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>#LUDWIGVAN<\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily\u00a0\u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/bowtie.mailbutler.io\/tracking\/hit\/583e6ce0-dfd0-48be-8a33-61256b3c58e3\/a01723d1-1d1d-44ee-9d0c-779ed93a798c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>HERE<\/i><\/a><\/span><em>.<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COC has confirmed that due to the ongoing uncertainty around indoor gatherings, they\u00a0will be cancelling the rest of the originally planned 2020\/2021 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":69363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33451,35839,39,43],"tags":[223,628,34883],"yst_prominent_words":[13868,35866,10057,8399,38080,12399,6886,14077,7552],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/COC-2020-21-Season.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-i2H","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69359"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69359"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69481,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69359\/revisions\/69481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69359"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=69359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}