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Passing the hat

PHOTO: Owen Egan

Music students were powdering their wigs and dabbing on their beauty spots in January as Opera McGill presented Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro at three sold-out Pollack Hall performances. Here the fainting Susanna (Krista Howe) is caught by Count Almaviva (Olivier Laquerre) while an amused Don Basilio (Robin Tremblay) looks on. "The singing was magnificent," opined the Montreal Gazette of Laquerre's performance in particular, and "the young performers moved confidently though their paces."