http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/arts/story.html?id=75fd1320-0a7a-4fe7-8c6c-938b1d474c40

   New director brings German calm to Canadian Opera Company
   Neef, whose control won't be total until 2011-12, eschews
   unusual approaches
   
   ARTHUR KAPTAINIS, The Gazette
   
   Alexander Neef, 34, was 10 days into his new post as general
   director of the Canadian Opera Company and reflecting on
   the interesting if frustrating reality that the first vacant
   season over which he will have full artistic control is
   2011-12.
   
   "For me, the crucial point is that I don't want a difference
   between working on my season or not my season," he explained.
   "If I am general director of the company, they are all my
   seasons, they are all our seasons.
   
   "I am here now.  What we are doing we are doing together.
   I am the leader of the company and responsible for what we
   are doing."
   
   Alas, the opera world functions in future tense.  The Toronto
   season that has just started with Mozart's "Don Giovanni"
   and Prokofiev's "War and Peace" is entirely the handiwork
   of Neef's hands-on predecessor, Richard Bradshaw.  This
   Englishman, the motive force behind the splendid new Four
   Seasons Centre, died very much in office in August 2007. ...

Janos Gereben
www.sfcv.org
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