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Article: Forging the ring: for a project as big as Siegfried, the COC needs to be totally prepared before rehearsals begin.
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- Opera Canada
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- December 15, 2004
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IT'S 32 years since the Canadian Opera Company's last and only staging of Wagner's Siegfried, though for all the differences between how the opera played in September 1972 and how it will be in January 2005, the interval might as well be measured in light years. Back then, director Herman Geiger-Torel cut almost 20 percent of the opera's four-hour run time, but now it will be performed complete. The 1972 production photos show that designers Murray Laufer (sets) and Marie Day (costumes) fashioned a straightforwardly conventional approach in which gods and heroes looked noble, while the villains, the Nibelung dwarves, were like misshapen denizens from another world. Act I ...
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Article: COC NOTEBOOK: COMPETITION STILL TO COME FOR ...
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);
December 24, 2004 ;
700+ words
... ... other three games by a combined 17 points - COC (7-5) will take part in San Jose City ... scheduled to compete in the three-day event. COC opens play against No. 9 San Joaquin Delta ... 4) and No. 2 Riverside (12-2), COC is prepared to hold its own with anybody ...
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