This piece by Lydia Perović was originally published in the Final Word section of our summer 2021...
Lydia Perović asks “Who’s to blame?” as the classical journo beat shrinks
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Critical Response: writers evaluate Canadian opera’s pandemic response
In Opera Canada's new Q&A series, we've asked arts writers across the country to weigh in on...
Missing In Action: Where is live opera in Canada?
We’ve all seen the pictures: Salzburg Festival defied the odds and put on two staged operatic...
Review: Canadian Opera Company tackles ‘paradoxical’ Cosí fan tutte
The final Mozart-Da Ponte collaboration, 1790’s Cosí fan tutte, o sia La Scuola degli Amanti...
Live-streaming: why are Canadian opera productions missing from the worldwide phenomenon?
The availability of live-streamed and on-demand opera has exploded in the last five years. Major...
Review: Canadian Opera Company’s Anna Bolena struggles to ignite dramatic sparks
There are operas whose musical and dramatic brilliance does not show signs of ever running out, hundreds of years into their production history. Then there are operas which make you wonder if the art form is deader than a museum piece.
Review: Canadian Opera Company’s Nightingale “Parable on the supremacy of nature over artifice? Not so fast.”
Canadian Opera Company’s nine-year-old production of Stravinsky’s shorts, The Nightingale and...
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CANADIANS NEXT ON STAGE
Apr 08 - 26 2025
Mahabharata Part One: Karma: The Life We Inherit John Gzowski and Suba Sankaran
Canadian Stage and Why Not Theatre
Bluma Appel Theatre
Apr 11 - 27 2025
Mahabharata Part Two: Dharma: The Life We Choose John Gzowski and Suba Sankaran
Canadian Stage and Why Not Theatre
Bluma Appel Theatre
Apr 18 2025
St. Matthew Passion Bach
Grand Philharmonic Choir
Centre in the Square
Apr 23 2025
RigolettoVerdi
Pacific Opera Victoria
Royal Theatre (Victoria)
No event found!
