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Shoot Him Again!

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Tosca, Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier

by Lev Bratishenko
02.02.2010

Tosca! The name has teeth for good reason. Puccini’s opera averages a death every 37 minutes. It includes 19th century Italian politics, the homicidal lusting of a Roman police chief, a jealous girlfriend, and a superfluity of hypocrites. This is distilled opera of few peers in the repertoire, and is often a final examination for [...]

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Noblesse amuse

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Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, Théâtre du Nouveau Monde; La Princesse Turandot, Théâtre Tout à Trac

by Mélanie Grondin
22.01.2010

Pour ceux qui s’ennuient du Festival Juste pour rire, deux occasions de première qualité sont offertes pour se dilater la rate : Le Bourgeois gentilhomme de Molière, mis en scène par l’incomparable Benoît Brière, et La Princesse Turandot, une adaptation libre de la pièce de Carlo Gozzi et de l’opéra de Puccini par Hugo Bélanger.

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Killer Clowns & The Funny Dead

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Pagliacci, Gianni Schicchi, Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier

by Lev Bratishenko
30.09.2009

The opening night of an opera season is an anxious bit of business. Chandeliers can fall, stage directors can quit, and it takes a few concerts to forget such things (well, not the stage directors.) So we sit in the darkened hall and cross our fingers, for their sakes.

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