Rob Ford, The Opera premiered last month in a one-off production to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Student Composer Collective at the University of Toronto. The audience had not come for opera, but for ideas and relief, and the MacMillan Theatre at the faculty of music was unprepared for the need. Ford supporters were not obvious in a line that crowded the lobby, the hallways and the bathrooms, gleefully anticipating the skewering their controversial mayor was about to receive, like a voodoo doll, in absentia.
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