Love, laughter, and a daring wager collide in this comic masterpiece that is a sly wink at the fickleness of the human heart.
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?
Love and fidelity are put to the test when a local bets two visiting soldiers their fiancées won’t recognize them in disguise. The game is on! But are the lovers ready for what they discover?
Performance Information
Sung in Italian with English and French SURTITLES™
With the COC Orchestra and Chorus
COC Revival
French SURTITLES™ provided by Opéra de Montréal
Production originally made possible, in part, by Philip Deck , BMO Financial Group , and Kimberley Bozak
The COC Chorus, including The Frances & Tim Price Chorus Master, Sandra Horst, is generously underwritten by Frances & Tim Price
Johannes Debus is generously underwritten by Riki Turofsky & Charles Petersen
Daniel Okulitch's performance is generously supported by The Fidelio Foundation
The COC Orchestra is generously sponsored by The Schulich Foundation and by W. Bruce C. Bailey
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts · 145 Queen St W
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