– Four Seasons Centre For The Performing Arts, Toronto

About this event

Drawing from the opera’s subtitle (“The School for Lovers”), acclaimed Canadian film and stage director Atom Egoyan reimagines the opera’s 18th‑century setting as a private school science lab, where love becomes an experiment and the classroom becomes a playground for temptation. This outlandish comedy offers a wicked insight into the follies of romance, shimmers with elegance, wit, and warmth, and leaves us with one lingering question: when it comes to love, how ready are we to be put to the test? The production is a COC Revival, originally made possible, in part, by Philip Deck & Kimberley Bozak and BMO Financial Group. Sandra Horst and the COC Chorus are generously underwritten by Tim & Frances Price. Johannes Debus is generously underwritten by Riki Turofsky & Charles Petersen. The COC Orchestra is generously sponsored by The Schulich Foundation and by W. Bruce C. Bailey.

Cast & creative

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  Ferrando

  Laurence Kilsby
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  Guglielmo

  Joel Allison
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  Don Alfonso

  Daniel Okulitch
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  Fiordiligi

  Lauren Fagan
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  Despina

  Tracy Dahl
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  Conductor

  Johannes Debus
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  Stage director

  Atom Egoyan
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  Set designer

  Debra Hanson
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  Costume designer

  Debra Hanson
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  Lighting designer

  Michael Walton
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  Chorusmaster

  Sandra Horst
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  Dorabella

  Martina Myskohlid
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  Composer

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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  Librettist

  Lorenzo Da Ponte