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2023/24 Season

Il cappello di paglia di Firenze

(The Florentine straw hat)

A lively, tuneful score by the celebrated film composer Nino Rota illuminates this delightful farce in which a straw hat eaten by a horse sets in motion a hilarious chain of events, further complicating tangled wedding day preparations.

In Italian with English Surtitles
120-minute run time with a 15-minute intermission

Il cappello di paglia di Firenze

Details

Conductor: Russell Braun
Director: Jennifer Tarver
Set Designer: Michelle Tracey
Co-Costume Designers: Alessia Urbani & Andrew Nasturzio
Stage Manager: Susan Monis
Assistant Director: Mabel Wonnacott
Assistant Stage Manager: Meghan Specht

November

2023

MacMillan Theatre
* Livestreamed

Thursday

Nov 23

7:30 pm

Friday

Nov 24

7:30 pm

Saturday *

Nov 25

7:30 pm

Sunday *

Nov 26

2:30 pm

Lysistrata

UofT Opera Student Composers Collective

Our student composers turn their talents to satire, with an adaptation of Lysistrata, based upon Aristophanes’ anti-war comedy penned in 411 BC. This contemporary reimagining boasts an acerbic modern libretto coupled with gender fluidity.

In English with English Surtitles
90-minute run time, no intermission

Libretto by Michael Patrick Albano
Conductor: Sandra Horst
Director: Mabel Wonnacott

Lysistrata

January

2024

MacMillan Theatre
& Livestreamed

Sunday

Jan 21

2:30 pm

Cendrillon

Charles Perrault’s classic story of a lonely “cinder” girl, an unhappy household and a searching prince is given human dimension in this 19th century masterpiece. Massenet’s sweeping, lyric score elevates this simple folktale to a compelling narrative of self discovery, a quest for enduring love and the power of goodness.

In French with English Surtitles
140-minute run time with a 15 intermission

Cendrillon

Details

Conductor: Sandra Horst
Director: Maria Lamont
Set Designer: Michelle Tracey
Lighting Designer: Gabriel Cropley
Co-Costume Designers: Alessia Urbani & Andrew Nasturzio
Stage Manager: Susan Monis
Assistant Director: Mabel Wonnacott
Assistant Stage Manager: Meghan Specht

March

2024

MacMillan Theatre
* Livestreamed

Thursday

Mar 14

7:30 pm

Friday

Mar 15

7:30 pm

Saturday *

Mar 16

7:30 pm

Sunday *

Mar 17

2:30 pm

Mostly Mozart

U of T Opera presents a concert of beloved operatic ensembles by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart augmented by works inspired by the man widely recognized as “one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music”.

90-minutes maximum (no intermission)

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April

2024

Walter Hall

Friday

April 5

5:00 pm