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enowned film and stage director Atom Egoyan returns to the COC with a new production of Mozart’s opera about the frailties of the human condition. Egoyan brings his signature directorial style and oft-explored themes of love, temptation and deceit to this wry comedy about two couples gambling with one another’s faith and desire.
This most sublime of operas celebrates the common human experience of joyful, innocent love while also exploring deeper, more private complexities. Full of farce and folly, Così plumbs the depths of human emotion in its depiction of the intimate pleasures and struggles of fidelity and illicit love. Quite simply it is one of the greatest pieces about relationships ever written.
“Las Dos Fridas” by Frida Kahlo provides a framework for director Atom Egoyan’s and designer Debra Hanson’s vision. Two of Hanson’s preliminary costume designs appear left.
Led by COC Music Director Johannes Debus with the COC Orchestra and Chorus, this new production features a cast of up-andcoming opera stars in the roles of the young lovers, while distinguished veterans Sir Thomas Allen (in his
COC debut) and Tracy Dahl star as the wily Don Alfonso and the conniving Despina. Generously underwritten in part by
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