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Clips and Audience
Madama Butterfly
Audience feedback from the 2009-2010 Season showing of Madama Butterfly.
Galleries
2010-2011 Season
Lillian Alling - Behind the Scenes
A behind-the-scenes look at the process of creating Lillian Alling. This brand-new opera, commissioned by VO, will have its world premiere in October 2010.
Golden Anniversary Season
Norma
November/December 2009
Passion leads to death when Norma, a powerful Druid priestess, has a secret affair - and two children - with Pollione, the commander of the occupying Roman army.
All photos by Tim Matheson.
Nixon in China
Canadian Premiere - March 2010
In 1972, Richard Nixon and Chairman Mao shook hands and changed the course of human events...
All photos by Tim Matheson.
The Marriage of Figaro
April/May 2010
A deliciously twisty plot and deeply sympathetic characters come together in Mozart's unmatchable opera of love, infatuation and forgiveness.
All photos by Tim Matheson
Madama Butterfly
May/June 2010
A pleasure-seeking American naval officer leases a house and weds a young geisha. He is only briefly enchanted with his "Butterfly", while she gives herself wholly to the marriage. Devotion and devastation meet in Puccini's tragedy of love, honour and betrayal.
All photos by Tim Matheson