Pablo Heras-Casado returns to Canadian Opera Company

Sep 5, 2011

Pablo Heras-Casado is returning to the Canadian Opera Company to conduct a production of Gluck’s “Iphigenia in Tauris”. Between 22 September and 15 October he will be leading the COC Orchestra and Chorus in eight performances.

“Iphigenia in Tauris” is a co-production of Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera and Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and will feature Susan Graham/Katherine Whyte as Iphigenia, Russell Braun as Orestes, Joseph Kaiser as Pylades and Mark S. Doss as Thoas.Pablo Heras-Casado made his debut at the Canadian Opera Company in February 2011 with the direction of “Nixon in China” and was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Awards by The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) for the “Outstanding Musical Direction” of this production.

Please click here for more information on “Iphigenia in Tauris”.