Reviewed James Karas
The Canadian Opera Company provides a traditional production (that is a
compliment) of Puccini’s La Bohème at Toronto’s Four Seasons
Centre for the Performing Arts. Its strengths are a well sung Mimi (Grazia
Doronzio) and Marcello (Joshua Hopkins), fine directing by John Caird. The set
design is very good except for the first act and the orchestral playing is sound.
I doubt that there were too many tears streaming down the cheeks of the
audience but most people rightly enjoyed a viewing of the old weepie.
Italian soprano Doronzio appeared small and frail, just as one would imagine Mimi to be. Her voice emanated from her like a flower captured in time-lapse photography. She would start slowly and tentatively as in “Mi chiamano Mimì” and then her voice would blossom and become evocative, full of emotion and a delight to hear
My full review of this production may be read here:
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La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini with libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica opened on October 3 and will be performed twelve times on various dates until October 30, 2013 at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario. Tel: 416-363-6671. www.coc.ca
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