Luckily, one of the best-reviewed productions in this year’s festival is coming to Toronto. Oct. 5-16, Artscape Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas St. E.NormaWatch this if: Your fall calendar could use some Italian romantic tragedy. Vincenzo Bellini’s Norma opens the COC’s 2016/17 season in a co-production with the San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu. Its San Francisco run received great reviews for its musical accomplishment, especially for its lead, Toronto-based soprano Sondra Radvanovsky. In Toronto, Radvanovsky shares the role of Norma with South Africa’s Elza van den Heever — two powerhouse Normas, same tragic love story.

Source: thestar October 02, 2016 14:03 UTC