The pulling of Peter Eötvös’s opera The Golden Dragon from the Hackney Empire must provoke some...
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Review: The Elixir of Love at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, Oct. 11 2017
Smalltown Canada setting Donizetti’s rustic melodramma giocoso (comic opera) The Elixir of...
Tapestry Opera’s 2017-18 season kicks off with donated Bösendorfer piano
Tapestry Opera's 2017-2018 season has taken an unexpected, yet welcome, turn. The company has just...
Gregory Dahl from Scarpia to Rigoletto
Thank heaven for seniority. As a 28-year-old teacher of choral music in Winnipeg, Gregory Dahl did...
13 opera myths, busted
"Opera singers come in all shapes, sizes and ages," says soprano Simone Osborne. "We wear jeans,...
Review: Arabella at Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, Oct. 5 2017
Richard Strauss’s Arabella (1933) had its triumphant Canadian premiere last night, opening the...
A murdered composer, a lost libretto…could this be Canada’s greatest opera?
Against the Grain Theatre is making the case that Claude Vivier's 'Kopernikus' is a masterwork....
Opéra de Montréal’s Another Brick in the Wall heads to Cincinnati Opera
Cincinnati Opera’s U.S. premiere production of Another Brick in the Wall has begun presales of...
The Rubies 2017: Spotlight on Michael Patrick Albano
Opera Canada's 18th annual awards gala The Rubies is quickly approaching. On October 30, three...
Review: Elektra, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, Sept. 19, 2017
Keith Warner's frenetic, conceptually driven production of Richard Strauss's Elektra (1909)...