Edmonton opera season to open with Flying Dutchman
Last Updated: Monday, April 21, 2008 | 11:43 AM MT
CBC News
Edmonton Opera will perform Wagner's The Flying Dutchman for the first time in 20 years in a 2008-9 season devoted to stories of love.
Jason Howard and Susan Marie Pierson, who sang together in Bluebeard's Castle, reunite for Wagner's story of a ship's captain doomed to sail the seas for eternity until he finds true love.
The Flying Dutchman, sung in German with English Surtitles, will open the season of four operas to be performed at Edmonton's Jubilee Auditorium and the Winspear Centre.
Two French-language operas are included in the season — Donizetti's comedic Daughter of the Regiment and Bizet's tale of love and sacrifice, The Pearl Fishers.
The Pearl Fishers, a special presentation for two nights only at the Winspear, will be directed by Edmonton Opera artistic director Brian Deedrick and conducted by Robert Dean.
The opera season closes with Verdi's La Traviata, with Alberta-born Laura Whalen singing the role of Violetta, the courtesan who loses everything in her love for Alfredo.
Theodore Baerg, Québécois star Marc Hervieux, Thomas Macleay and Doug MacNaughton also star in the production, sung in Italian with English Surtitles.
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