Toronto Operetta Theatre has announced its 2014-15 season line up and both Stratford Summer Music and the Westben Festival have announced their programmes.

Toronto Operetta Theatre
The 2014/15 season features three productions.  The season opens with Federico Chueca’s zarzuela La Gran Via on November 2nd.  The Christmas season (December 27th to January 4th) will see six performances of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado.  (And I hope Rob Ford is on “the list” though hopefully by then he’ll be well on the way to being forgotten)  Finally, and perhaps most interesting, the season closes with Victor Davies’ 2008 piece Earnest, the Importance of Being which is probably the only Canadian work that can properly be called an operetta.  There’s no further information at this time but doubtless it will eventually make its way to http://www.torontooperetta.com/. Continue reading →