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(1998/99 profile)
Opera Anonymous is an all-Canadian company dedicated to making 20th century opera more accessible. Our past productions have included The Rape of Lucretia, The Consul, The Medium, and The Rake's Progress. This season we present the Canadian premiere of Carlisle Floyd's hauntingly beautiful setting of Wuthering Heights, in concert at the Glenn Gould Studio on November 14, 1998, with singers Adele Kozak, Steven Pitkanen and Lenard Whiting under the musical direction of William Shookhoff. Our second show is Joseph Quesnel's Lucas et Cecile (1808), the second opera ever written on Canadian soil, at the Jane Mallett Theatre on January 15 and 16, 1999. Left unfinished at Quesnel's death, the opera was reconstructed musically by John Beckwith in the 1980s, and receives its first staging in this production featuring the Aradia Baroque Ensemble. As well, OpAnon will run a Role Study Workshop of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio in October with Brahm Goldhamer. |