In His Own Words

Alexander Neef, General Director


9/6/2010

On Labour Day

We are back in Toronto and back at work. Aida has been rehearsing for a full week already and everybody's mood is great as I could see at a rehearsal visit this afternoon. Britten's Death in Venice, the second production of our fall run, is scheduled to start rehearsals on Friday.

Also, on the last day of this long weekend I finally collected the fruit of my summer thinking time: a very precise idea of how our 2014/15 could work. Very exciting.

And, on a completely unrelated matter, our Music Director Johannes has found an apartment in a wonderful neighbourhood.

2010/2011, we're ready to go.

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1/3/2010

Holiday Pleasures

Happy New Year! These few days between Christmas and the New Year have been an exceptionally wonderful break. Working in opera means very few evenings or weekends completely free of obligations and finding time for, and with, my family can be challenging to say the least. Other worldly pleasures like listening to music or reading a book tend to be heavily neglected as well. I am glad to report that I indulged in all of them over the past 10 days.


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