I’m thrilled that I’ve been asked back for my fourth year as Artistic Producer and MC for the Opera Nova Scotia Opera Valentine. This is a great event that raises money for a very worthy company!
We just finished up the Festival last weekend — which this year included a tour of SW Nova Scotia! Exhausting but rewarding. Spending four hours in a small car with Andrew Tees and Keith Klassen was funnier than anything I could put on stage … And louder. Traviata went really, really well — I ran the surtitles on the road, and kept thinking what I would do with the show if we were staging it — so look for Trav to pop up on the HSOW schedule in a year or so!
So now I’m getting ready for this year’s HSOW, which starts up on July 23rd. Lots of things to get ready, and I’m very excited about directing Giulio Cesare, my first Baroque opera as a director. What a great work this is, and what great casts we have coming out to sing in it!
