The Canadian Opera Company opened its spring season Friday night with something fresh, funny and unexpectedly green: Gaetano Donizetti’sAnna Bolenain 30 years.
A few words on cats, I find myself inexplicably writing: Barbe & Doucet posit that “Don Pasquale’s real love is cats,” and that his tragedy is the sad fact that he is allergic to them. We learn all about it in the extremely 1960s Italianthat unfolds throughout the overture – a smart device, mirroring the overture’s function of giving us little tastes of the musical themes we’ll hear that night.
As the lovers we root for, soprano Simone Osborne as Norina and tenor Santiago Ballerini as Ernesto make for a sweet-sounding pair with just the right amount of sass. When she’s not hilariously stomping her foot in feigned objection, Osborne sings with a fresh and agile sound that floats from florid lines to peppy zingers. In true bel canto style, Osborne uses her voice to remind us that Norina is a woman ahead of her time – in this case, literate and with a backbone.
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