While visiting a prematurely wintry Winnipeg this past weekend, I had the pleasure of meeting with...
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Review: La Cenerentola, Opéra de Montréal, Nov. 11, 2017
Nowadays, it seems even stagings of comic operas are enamored with minimalism, skewing toward a...
Review: L’enfant et les sortilèges & Trouble in Tahiti, Opera North, Theatre Royal, Nottingham, Nov. 2 & 3, 2017
It would be difficult to imagine a more hard-working company than Britain’s Opera North. To...
Review: Singing Stars: The Next Generation—IRCPA, Nov. 6, 2017
At Zoomer Hall (the performing space of 96.3 New Classical FM) on Nov. 6, I had the pleasure of...
Review: Calixa Lavallée’s The Widow, Toronto Operetta Theatre, Nov. 5, 2018
Is Canada’s own ‘Merry’ Widow really Canadian at all? Marketed as Canada’s own ‘Merry’ Widow,...
Review: Missing, City Opera Vancouver, Nov. 3, 2017
Missing, a co-commission by City Opera Vancouver and Pacific Opera Victoria, opened at Vancouver’s...
Review: Canadian Opera Company’s Centre Stage Gala featuring the Ensemble Studio Competition, Nov. 1, 2017
On Nov. 1, 2017, the Canadian Opera Company presented its annual Centre Stage Gala featuring the...
‘The Rubies’: 17th Edition of the Opera Canada Awards, Oct. 30, 2017
On Mon. Oct. 31, Opera Canada Publications held its 17th annual Opera Canada Awards, a.k.a....
Review: Les Feluettes Edmonton Opera, Oct. 21, 2017
Canada has produced few large-scale, ‘grand’ operas, and Edmonton Opera, just recently emerging...
Review: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas; Rolfe’s Aeneas and Dido, Oct. 21, 2017
To open its 17/18 farewell season on October 21, Toronto Masque Theatre presented a double bill of...