LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX

By Geoff Chapman, Music Critic, The Toronto Star (Monday, November 9, 1998)

"Opera in Concert delivers a feast of singing in Italian"

"The 25^th season that began at Jane Mallett Theatre Saturday is devoted to operatic women of passion, and thus Donizetti's Linda di Chamounix is an interesting choice."

"The opera is a slight piece but full of charm, redolent of the 18^th century in its music, with such lightness and grace, humour and occasionally infectious tunefulness."

This Opera in Concert version, (they did it once before in 1982) delivers a feast of singing in Italian, with many fine duets."

"Coloratura soprano Leslie Fagan in the title role impressed from the start, but then her opening aria "O Light of My Soul" is a real cliff-climber with stratospherically high notes."