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I want to make opera exciting to the public, says the Canadian Opera's Lotfi Mansouri, here coaching singer Victor Braun for this season's opener, Don(...)
I want to make opera exciting to the public, says the Canadian Opera's Lotfi Mansouri, here coaching singer Victor Braun for this season's opener, Don(...)

I want to make opera exciting to the public, says the Canadian Opera's Lotfi Mansouri, here coaching singer Victor Braun for this season's opener, Don(...)

Date8/30/1977
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  • I want to make opera exciting to the public, says the Canadian Opera's Lotfi Mansouri, here coaching singer Victor Braun for this season's opener, Don(...)
  • I want to make opera exciting to the public, says the Canadian Opera's Lotfi Mansouri, here coaching singer Victor Braun for this season's opener, Don Carlos. But I don't believe in gimmicks and I don't claim it's like going to a hockey game. You have to reach up for it.
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Original Toronto Star caption: I want to make opera exciting to the public, says the Canadian Opera's Lotfi Mansouri, here coaching singer Victor Braun for this season's opener, Don Carlos. But I don't believe in gimmicks and I don't claim it's like going to a hockey game. You have to reach up for it.
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    Lotfi Mansouri, Canadian Opera Company general director, is gearing up for a spring season at the Royal Alexandra Theatre. It's meant to introduce ope(...)
    Lotfi Mansouri, Canadian Opera Company general director, is gearing up for a spring season at the Royal Alexandra Theatre. It's meant to introduce ope(...)
    Goode, Jeff
    3/1/1978
    Lotfi Mansouri, Canadian Opera Company general director, is gearing up for a spring season at the Royal Alexandra Theatre. It's meant to introduce ope(...)
    Lotfi Mansouri, Canadian Opera Company general director, is gearing up for a spring season at the Royal Alexandra Theatre. It's meant to introduce ope(...)
    Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
    11/11/1975
    Ontario's Mr. Opera. There's a clever woman behind many a successful man. Lotfi Mansouri, director of the Canadian Opera Company, received a personliz(...)
    Ontario's Mr. Opera. There's a clever woman behind many a successful man. Lotfi Mansouri, director of the Canadian Opera Company, received a personliz(...)
    Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
    1/13/1984
    A festive occasion. Lotfi Mansouri, general director of Canadian Opera Company, and the Honorable Pauline McGibbon, chairman of the Toronto Internatio(...)
    A festive occasion. Lotfi Mansouri, general director of Canadian Opera Company, and the Honorable Pauline McGibbon, chairman of the Toronto Internatio(...)
    Mahler, John
    3/1/1984
    Vancouver soprano Heather Thomson samples Iranian dish made by Lotfi Mansouri, general director of teh Canadian Opera Company. Strangers expect our cu(...)
    Vancouver soprano Heather Thomson samples Iranian dish made by Lotfi Mansouri, general director of teh Canadian Opera Company. Strangers expect our cu(...)
    Combs, Erin
    4/10/1980
    As director of the Canadian Opera Company, Lotfi Mansouri demands excellence
    As director of the Canadian Opera Company, Lotfi Mansouri demands excellence
    Eglinton, Rick
    9/18/1986
    Canadian opera director Lotfi Mansouri
    Canadian opera director Lotfi Mansouri
    Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
    11/11/1975
    Victor Braun Opera Singer
    Victor Braun Opera Singer
    Braswell, Jeff
    n.d.
    Getting ready: Preparing for the gruelling role of Otello is James McCracken, in his O'Keefe Centre dressing room and in rehearsal with opera director Lotfi Mansouri
    Getting ready: Preparing for the gruelling role of Otello is James McCracken, in his O'Keefe Centre dressing room and in rehearsal with opera director Lotfi Mansouri
    Griffin, Doug
    9/4/1980
    Opera Ball chairman Carole Graftstein has program signed by Lotfi Mansouri
    Opera Ball chairman Carole Graftstein has program signed by Lotfi Mansouri
    Griffin, Doug
    9/20/1978
    Canadian opera '70 opens its 22nd season at the O'Keefe Centre tonight when the first of ive of the world's best-known operas is presented. The perfor(...)
    Canadian opera '70 opens its 22nd season at the O'Keefe Centre tonight when the first of ive of the world's best-known operas is presented. The perfor(...)
    Spremo, Boris
    9/17/1970
    Superstardom ahead, Tenor Jerry Hadley stars in the Canadian Opera's The Tales Of Hoffmann at the O'Keefe Centre next week.
    Superstardom ahead, Tenor Jerry Hadley stars in the Canadian Opera's The Tales Of Hoffmann at the O'Keefe Centre next week.
    Cooper, David
    6/6/1988