Don Giovanni | Centre for Opera Studies & Appreciation | Opera Canada
Robin J. Miller
Pacific Opera Victoria The Turn of the Screw“A musical triumph”
Pacific Opera Victoria | The Turn of the Screw | Opera Canada
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Rigoletto “Goose-bumps break out whenever Dufresne sings”
Pacific Opera Victoria | Rigoletto | Opera Canada
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The Little Prince “An absolute delight”
Pacific Opera Victoria | The Little Prince | Opera Canada
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La clemenza di Tito “The musicians in this production did it proud”
Pacific Opera Victoria | La clemenza di Tito | Opera Canada
Pacific Opera Victoria Così fan tutte “this cast was a joy to listen to”
With Pacific Opera Victoria’s latest mounting of Mozart’s Così fan tutti (seen April 12), the company continues its long run of gathering excellent individual voices and melding them into glorious ensembles. Vocally, this Così was superb and made a great case for...
Pacific Opera Victoria The Birds “the large cast of principals was top-notch”
Walter Braunfels’s Die Vögel (The Birds) is a very odd duck. Part allegory, part buffo, part mythological fantasy and serious commentary on the hubris of man, it must have been the challenge of a lifetime for stage director Glynis Leyshon to wrangle this opera into...
Pacific Opera Victoria Carmen Mezzo Carolyn Sproule “a stand-out” in the title role
Pacific Opera Victoria’s Carmen finally opened on October 12, 2022, after multiple COVID-caused postponements. It was well worth the wait. First mention has to go to the chorus, which did such an extraordinary job they came close to eclipsing the rest of the...
Pacific Opera Victoria’s For a Look or a Touch “rings true in the heart”
Pacific Opera Victoria’s second leap into the world of film is very different from its psychedelic, special-effects-laden first, Elizabeth Raum’s The Garden of Alice. Jake Heggie’s For a Look or a Touch, seen April 23 on a big screen at the Royal Theatre, is firmly...
Pacific Opera’s The Garden of Alice: formidable cast in a brave new genre
Pacific Opera Victoria’s film version of Canadian composer/librettist Elizabeth Raum’s The Garden of Alice, seen on a big screen at the Royal Theatre Feb. 24, is an odd creature. Sophisticated in some ways, naive in others; like Alice, more than a little uncertain...
Review: Megan Latham finesses the shifts in POV’s Bon Appetit! & The Italian Lesson
Oh the agony: to see a practically perfect chocolate cake made right in front of you but not be able to taste it! If only Pacific Opera Victoria had thought to offer viewers of their filmed version of Lee Hoiby’s Bon Appetit! the option of DoorDash delivery … but no....
Cross Canada Reports: Pacific Opera Victoria at the ready
Please note: Information in this Victoria report was accurate as of publishing in our Fall 2020 issue released in September 2020. Health measures in Victoria, BC British Columbia’s Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry enjoys near-rock star status in this...