Join us in Halifax from July 20 to August 18 as we rehearse and perform Menotti’s The Consul and Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto!
Applications extended to December 5 for the first round.
One of the works the Halifax Summer Opera Festival will stage and perform in 2024 is The Consul, a brilliant and celebrated opera composed in 1950 by Italian-American composer Gian Carlo Menotti. Menotti was extraordinarily involved in all his productions.
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