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By John Terauds Special to the Star Tues., Feb. 5, 2019 The Canadian Opera Company’s 69th season is betting on familiarity to lure ticket buyers to the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. On Monday evening the company unveiled a new season of six well-loved works from the core of the repertoire. The 2019-20 season opens on Sept. 28 with a new co-production of Giacomo Puccini’s final (and unfinished) work, Turandot. It will run in rep with Antonin Dvorak’s charming Rusalka. The curtain rises on the latter Czech-language opera on Oct. 12, running to Oct. 26. Turandot has not been seen on the COC stage since 2004. Rusalka was first presented by the COC in a very nice production in 2009. Next year’s run features a new production directed by Sir David McVicar, in which the great soprano Sondra Radvanovsky will sing the title role. The new season continues in 2020 with a return of one of the most popular operas of all time, … [Read more...] about Canadian Opera Company plays it safe with Turandot, Barber of Seville and more next season
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Liberal activist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ousts veteran Democrat Joe Crowley in New York primary
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By Steve Peoples Deepti Hajela And Meg Kinnard, The Associated Press Wed., June 27, 2018 NEW YORK — As Donald Trump’s party came together, a 28-year-old liberal activist ousted top House Democrat Joe Crowley in the president’s hometown Tuesday night, a stunning defeat that suddenly forced Democrats to confront their own internal divisions. Crowley, the No. 4 House Democrat and until Tuesday considered a possible candidate to replace Nancy Pelosi as leader, becomes the first Democratic incumbent to fall this primary season. He was beaten by underfunded challenger Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a former Bernie Sanders organizer who caught fire with the party’s left wing. Crowley’s loss echoed across the political world, sending the unmistakable message that divisions between the Democratic Party’s pragmatic and more liberal wings may be widening heading into the high-stakes November midterm elections. It also exposed a generational divide … [Read more...] about Liberal activist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ousts veteran Democrat Joe Crowley in New York primary