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Article: Montreal.(CANADA)
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- Opera Canada
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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By presenting the company premiere of Ariadne auf Naxos in November, L'Opera de Montreal was activating its unspoken plan to wean subscribers off a heavy diet of Italian repertoire. The strong audience response was remarkable, in view of the fact that this production, on loan from the Seattle Opera, added another level of sophistication to Strauss's opera-within-an-opera by moving the setting from the home of an 18th-century Viennese nobleman to the private art gallery of a 21st-century potentate of the Pacific Northwest. Such an updating might not be quite as resonant in Quebec, where government has more to do with arts patronage than individuals. But the general point ...
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