It was a banner month of June for Canadian singers in the UK. First, mezzo Simone McIntosh proudly...
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Ottawa Chamberfest Mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb’s shows off her “versatile artistry”
Canadian mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb showed off a different side of her artistry at Ottawa Chamberfest, delighting audiences with more subtle, sensitive vocal qualities of shading and luminosity.
Chamberfest goes live with Jonelle Sills & Isaiah Bell
Ottawa’s Chamberfest, back after cancelling its 2020 edition, has been offering Ottawa audiences...
L’orangeraie interpretation takes racist turn at Chants Libres
I can't believe that it's 2021, one week after the U.S. swore in its first woman and first person...
Lucia di Lammermoor loses itself to literalism at Opéra de Montréal
The soprano may be the star of Lucia di Lammermoor, but it was the gentlemen who took the night at...
Review: L’Opéra de Montréal’s Champion offers redemption…in black and blue
What makes a man? His wins? His losses? His mistakes and regrets? His memories? Is it in how he...
Review: L’Opéra de Montréal’s Das Rheingold offers a Steampunk Gothic aesthetic and a “formidable” Alberich in Nathan Berg
As the most compact of the Ring operas —clocking in at a trifling two-and-a-half hours— Das...
Review: Opéra de Montréal’s “ultra-conventional” approach to Rigoletto feels out of place in #MeToo era
Is there a more problematic opera for the #MeToo era than Rigoletto? As yet another wealthy,...
Review: Opéra de Montréal’s Svadba “provokes maximum aesthetic pleasure”
Svadba continues until March 31st at Montréal's Espace Go In my early 20s, a boyfriend introduced...
Review: La Cenerentola, Opéra de Montréal, Nov. 11, 2017
Nowadays, it seems even stagings of comic operas are enamored with minimalism, skewing toward a...