Beethoven famously regarded his only opera, Fidelio, as a problem child that cost him dearly, and...
The Canadian Opera Company mounted its John Caird staging of Puccini’s La bohème for the third...
Wayne Gooding provides an overview of the existing gender inequalities on the podium, and shines a spotlight on Tapestry Opera’s Women in Musical Leadership program – a three-year conducting program designed to nurture the next generation of women and non-binary conductors. This text was originally published in the Spring 2023 print version of Opera Canada magazine.
On paper, the Canadian Opera Company’s Pomegranate, the opera about lesbian love and loss was...
The Orpheus myth has played a prominent role in opera history, from Monteverdi’s Orfeo of 1607,...
The late American musicologist Joseph Kerman famously dubbed Puccini’s Tosca “that shabby little...
Verdi’s Macbeth, which opened the Canadian Opera Company’s spring season April 28, is a...
Luigi Cherubini’s Médée is the only opera from the Paris of the French Revolution to retain a...
“Oscar Wilde’s Salome was not worthy of you…it has a nauseous and sickly atmosphere about...
It’s a shame Marcelo Buscaino wasn’t on hand for the opening-night curtain call of the Canadian...
