“It was just over a decade ago at the Edinburgh Festival that the Canadian Opera Company mounted a radically new production of ‘Bluebeard’s Castle/Erwartung’ that has since emblemized the next life of the COC. And as the $181-million Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts continues to rise as Canada’s first purpose-built opera house at that prime (Toronto) corner, some part of its foundation can be said to have been laid by the international breakthrough the company achieved overseas.”