Anne-Marie MacIntosh is an emerging artist with the opera, playing the role of Berta in The Barber of Seville and Calgary Opera has put a spin on her role. “She is typically played by an older singer and she is supposed to be an older character, but since I’m [younger], our director Alain Gauthier turned me into a […]
Calgary Opera opened Die Tote Stadt by Erich Wolfgang Korngold tonight, a Canadian premiere. Korngold won an Oscar for The Adventures of Robin Hood and it was the first time the award was given to a composer. Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City) tells the story of a man’s fight for his sanity as he […]
I chat with John Bouman, the head carpenter for the Calgary Opera to talk about building the set for the opera for the Calgary Herald Blog