The Canadian Opera Company is making headlines in New York on the occasion of its recent tour to the world-renowned Brooklyn Academy of Music. The COC's theatrically transcendent production of Handel'sSemele, created by famed Chinese visual and performance artist Zhang Huan, was previewed in the early days of its New York residency by the Toronto Star as "looking like an opera we can be proud that Toronto brought to the Big Apple." It went on to open on March 4 to popular and critical acclaim withSuperconductor lauding the occasion as "a chance for this city to hear this excellent Toronto-based company in a rare American visit."
Photo credit: Jane Archibald as Semele in the Canadian Opera Company production of "Semele," 2012. Photograph by Chris Hutcheson
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