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Opera Atelier leaves Baroque behind as it announces Der Freischütz for 2012-13 season

By John Terauds on February 7, 2012

Tenor Kresimir Spicer will sing Max in Opera Atelier's new production of Der Freischütz

Opera Atelier has just announced its 2012-13 season of two productions. It’s probably the first time in the company’s quarter century that there won’t be a Baroque-era opera on its Elgin Theatre season.

The season opens with the most recently-composed opera yet for the company: Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischütz, a not-frequently-produced landmark work that ushered in the Romantic era on the German opera stage in 1821.

“It is part of the company’s ongoing mission to shake off the preconceptions about ‘period production’ by reimagining and revitalizing the great works of the entire operatic canon,” says this morning’s press release.

The title role will be sung by tenor Kresimir Spicer, who has become a welcome guest in Opera Atelier productions over recent seasons.

The curtain rises on the new production on Oct. 27.

The second production is a revival of Opera Atelier’s lively and colourful take on Mozart’s The Magic Flute, with returning principals Colin Ainsworth as Tamino and Olivier Laquerre as Papageno. It opens on April 6.

David Fallis is set to conduct the Tafelmusik period-instrument orchestra in both productions, which will be directed by Opera Atelier co-artistic director Marshall Pynkoski and feature the Opera Atelier ballet corps, choreographed by Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg.

All the details should be posted here soon.

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