There is one conspicuous reason for reviving Rossini’s Tancredi in our time. Fortunately that reason — the availability of the Polish contralto Ewa Podles — underlay the Canadian Opera Company’s production of that work which opened Friday night for six performances at the Hummingbird Centre in Toronto.
Podles proves spectacular
KEN WINTERS [Globe and Mail, 5 Apr 05]
Tancredi by Gioacchino Rossini
There is one conspicuous reason for reviving Rossini's Tancredi in our time. Fortunately that reason — the availability of the Polish contralto Ewa Podles — underlay the Canadian Opera Company's production of that work which opened Friday night for six performances at the Hummingbird Centre in Toronto.
