Preview Article for The Marriage of Figaro in the Calgary Herald

Young artist to 'ask questions and challenge perceptions' while directing The Marriage of Figaro for Calgary Opera

“The challenge with something so familiar is keeping curious about the production and asking questions and seeing where there might be opportunities to deepen or shift our understanding of a scene,” Umezawa says. “I think not only do these operas become very familiar but their performance practice becomes familiar, so the interpretation becomes standardized. So I think that’s the challenge, is to give yourself permission to ask questions or challenge perceptions of the piece and see if there is an opportunity to make a novel or interesting discovery.”

-Aria Umezawa, Director of Calgary Opera’s The Marriage of Figaro

Read the whole article by Eric Volmers here.