Michael Jones

1 month ago | operacanada.ca | Michael Jones |Jennifer M. Tung

As their spring opera, the vocal department at the Glenn Gould School presented a fully-stage production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at Koerner Hall. Koerner Hall is an unusual venue for staged opera. It has no backstage area, no wings and no fly space (although they cleverly managed to fly in a noose for Papageno’s “suicide” aria in the second act). It has, however, an extraordinary acoustic, and even the least mature voices were well-balanced with the orchestra and well-heard in the hall.