Nuova Vocal Arts | Silence | Opera Canada
Bill Rankin
Nuova Vocal Arts
Edmonton Opera
Die Walküre “Unadulterated, if abridged, Wagner”
Edmonton Opera | Die Walküre | Opera Canada
Edmonton Opera
Bluebeard’s Castle “Topical and contemporary slant”
Edmonton Opera | Bluebeard’s Castle | Opera Canada
Edmonton Opera
Die Fledermaus “Remake of a perennial light-opera favourite”
Edmonton Opera | Die Fledermaus | Opera Canada
Calgary Opera
Don Giovanni “Austere set and vocally satisfying performances”
Calgary Opera | Don Giovanni | Opera Canada
Edmonton Opera
Das Rheingold “It was compellingly forceful and intimidatingly compelling, and by the time he was cursing the gods who robbed him of his glorious future with the ring, this Alberich was perversely in charge, both operatically and narratively. Mazerolle sang his hope and fury splendidly.””
Edmonton —The phrase “Wagner chamber opera” sounds like an oxymoron, but that’s what Edmonton Opera offered its audience to end the company’s diverse 60th-anniversary season. Wagner’s first instalment of his Ring Cycle, Das Rheingold, is the shortest of the cycle’s...
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Edmonton Opera
Ayre “[McKenzie Warriner’s] soaring, penetrating, unhurried, clarion invocation…left the room in attentive silence, and then exuberant ovation”
Edmonton Opera’s Artistic Director Joel Ivany continues his eclectic approach to opera company programming. After a traditional production of Carmen in the fall and a semi-staged Don Giovanni at the beginning of February, both at their mainstay 2,400-seat Jubilee...
Edmonton Opera
Don Giovanni “Judging from the audience’s approval of the comic tone, Ivany got his Don Giovanni right”
When Edmonton Opera’s Artistic Director, Joel Ivany, remodels an operatic classic, its semblance to the original could be generously described as approximate. His ‘transladaptation’ of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, reimagined as A Little Too Cozy, for his erstwhile...
Fall 2023 Print Issue The Rubies: Gino Quilico—Baritone of a Generation
On November 6, 2023, we will gather at The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto to celebrate the best in Canadian opera. This year we honour baritone Gino Quilico, soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian, music librarian Wayne Vogan, and industry change makers, Jaime Martino and Michael Hidetoshi Mori.
Edmonton Opera
Carmen “solid” and “perfectly clear rendition”
Edmonton Opera opened its 60th anniversary season on October 19, a Thursday, rather than its traditional Saturday night, with Bizet’s Carmen. The company last did Carmen in 2016, and they enlisted the same director, Maria Lamont, for this three-show production. This...
Edmonton Opera Stabat Mater “musically powerful”
Edmonton Opera wrapped its 59th season with four intimate performances of an apt sacred work on the cusp of the Christian Holy Week. Artistic director Joel Ivany programmed Pergolesi’s 1736 treatment of the 13th-century hymn Stabat Mater to cap off his first full...
New Music Edmonton Le Désert Mauve Quebec Multidisciplinary Artist Symon Henry’s New Experimental Opera
New Music Edmonton (NME), founded in 1985, under a different name, by the Canadian composer Violet Archer, promotes contemporary composition in the broadest sense, and its mandate includes introducing Edmonton audiences to artists beyond the city’s local preserve. On...