premiered in 2005, a young Joel Ivany was an extra posing as a photographer in the scene wherein the bullfighter Escamillo makes his entrance. Ivany returns now as the director behind the COC’s latest iteration of Bizet’s popular opera.
Ariane Cossette as Frasquita, Alex Hetherington as Mercédès, Jean-Philippe Lazure as Le Remendado, J’Nai Bridges as Carmen and Jonah Spungin as Le Dancaïre in Carmen.aria that’s positively flammable, the rest of the ensemble takes this fiery baton and runs in every feasible direction. Joyce El-Khoury’s Micaela is a sophisticated mélange of naïveté and a less-than-innocent dosage of bravery.