playing hard The Glencore Ensemble Studio School Tour travelled to schools all across Ontario this past fall. Dean Burry’s The Brothers Grimm (left), Canada’s most-performed opera, made a welcome return and Pergolesi’s La serva padrona (right) was performed in a new, vibrant production, the first that the COC has created specifically for high-school students. Photos: Chris Hutcheson
In November a group of our devoted underwriters travelled to Chicago with Alexander Neef and Johannes Debus to be present for opening night of La Traviata. This sumptuous new co-production (see a costume sketch on page 26) has been created with the joint forces of COC, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Houston Grand Opera and will premiere at the COC in a future season. Photo: COC
This was General Director Alexander Neef’s dashing mo’ about three weeks in.
Almost 30 COC artists and staff members (men AND women) formed a “Movember” team to raise funds and awareness regarding prostate cancer. They raised over $11,500 on their online team page. Most of the ’staches came off at the end of the month, but there are still a few gracing the upper lips of the dashing gentlemen of the COC. Well done team, and thanks to all who supported them financially and otherwise! Photos: COC
Alfred Caron, director of the FSCPA, is a prostate cancer survivor and raised the most funds with his impressive ’stache.
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