Stephan Bonfield

Calgary Opera’s THE MERRY WIDOW “high-quality evening of music-making”

_{Calgary Opera’s THE MERRY WIDOW} “high-quality evening of music-making”

by Stephan Bonfield | Feb 6, 2022 | Reviews

Live opera has been hard to come by in Canada these past few months and where there have been...

Review: Opera Atelier Something Rich & Strange puts new clothes on Baroque works

Review: Opera Atelier Something Rich & Strange puts new clothes on Baroque works

by Stephan Bonfield | Dec 15, 2020 | Featured, Reviews

Despite repeated coronavirus lockdowns, social distancing rules and a climate of apprehension,...

Don Giovanni goes buffa at Opera Atelier

Don Giovanni goes buffa at Opera Atelier

by Stephan Bonfield | Nov 1, 2019 | Featured, Reviews

Productions of Don Giovanni and its troublesome topic of seduction seem to elicit a variety of...

Commentary: Opera Atelier’s Idomeneo: Mozart’s neo-classical grand opera

Commentary: Opera Atelier’s Idomeneo: Mozart’s neo-classical grand opera

by Stephan Bonfield | Apr 10, 2019 | Featured, Reviews

There has been little if no question over the years that Mozart's opera seria, Idomeneo (1781), is...