Bill Rankin

Edmonton Opera goes live with drive-in opera

Edmonton Opera goes live with drive-in opera

by Bill Rankin | Mar 18, 2021 | Featured, Reviews

Edmonton Opera, like many companies, has tried to stay in touch with its supporters during the...

Cross Canada Reports: Calgary & Edmonton companies take divergent approaches

Cross Canada Reports: Calgary & Edmonton companies take divergent approaches

by Bill Rankin | Oct 17, 2020 | Featured, News

In Alberta, Edmonton Opera and Calgary Opera are working with the same set of unknowns as the rest...

Indie Opera: Canada’s Key Indie Players

Indie Opera: Canada’s Key Indie Players

by Bill Rankin | Apr 6, 2020 | Featured, News

This feature on Canadian Indie Opera appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of Opera Canada, Vol. 60 #3...

John Estacio, The Rubies 2019 — Singing for the West

John Estacio, The Rubies 2019 — Singing for the West

by Bill Rankin | Sep 27, 2019 | Featured, Interviews, News, Rubies Awards

Edmonton composer John Estacio’s immigrant Portuguese family lived on a farm north of Toronto....

Review: Mercury Opera Carmen in a “legendary Edmonton greasy spoon”

Review: Mercury Opera Carmen in a “legendary Edmonton greasy spoon”

by Bill Rankin | Aug 8, 2019 | Featured, Reviews

Having the title character's leg brush up against your thigh is just one unique prospect in...

Review: Edmonton’s Mercury Opera La Bohème offers “emotional penetration”

Review: Edmonton’s Mercury Opera La Bohème offers “emotional penetration”

by Bill Rankin | Mar 4, 2019 | Featured, Reviews

Edmonton’s Mercury Opera prides itself on being a maverick enterprise, taking grand opera into...

Review: Edmonton Opera’s Hansel and Gretel “enchanting and appropriately ghoulish”

Review: Edmonton Opera’s Hansel and Gretel “enchanting and appropriately ghoulish”

by Bill Rankin | Feb 5, 2019 | Featured, Reviews

There was a time when ‘opera’ implied a notion of music that unabashedly included the expectation...