Canadian Opera Company’s nine-year-old production of Stravinsky’s shorts, The Nightingale and Other Short Fables directed by Robert Lepage has aged well—as family entertainment. It sells well, it brings children and rookies to the opera house, and this time around it...
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It must have been a simple coincidence that the English Concert’s semi-staged Rinaldo happened on Palm Sunday (Mar. 25), juxtaposing Christianity’s celebration of Jesus’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem with the First Crusaders’ “liberation” of that holy city,...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In our upcoming spring issue, due to be released the first week in May, Editorial Director Gianmarco Segato takes you to Vienna where he discovered the 'perfect storm' at the heart of that city's opera...
Svadba continues until March 31st at Montréal's Espace Go In my early 20s, a boyfriend introduced me to the work of Dmitri Pokrovsky. Pokrovsky was a Soviet ethnomusicologist; much like Bartók had done in Romania, he spent years puttering around rural and remote areas...
This evening at 8 pm MST Calgary Opera unveiled their first new season under recently-appointed General Director & CEO Keith Cerny. Of all the recent 18/19 season announcements by Canadian opera companies, this was perhaps the most anticipated, with many curious...
On April 6th, the new, emerging company, Vera Causa Opera, based in Waterloo, Ontario will premiere their third—and biggest—show of the season, The Italian Girl in Algiers. After much success with their previous productions, Don Pasquale and Little Red Riding Hood,...
For winter-weary Toronto opera lovers in need of a feel-good show, the Royal Conservatory of Music-Glenn Gould School’s Die Fledermaus is just what the doctor ordered. I, for one, never leave after a decent performance of this Viennese bon-bon without a smile on my...
Edmonton’s Mercury Opera has both a conventional and an audacious bent. The little company that stages traditional operas on no particularly predictable schedule has presented Madama Butterfly, Cavalleria rusticana, Il tabarro, La traviata— its inaugural 2000...
Aaron Copland’s 1954 opera The Tender Land was given a strong and stylistically-astute presentation in this spring’s production by Wilfrid Laurier University’s Faculty of Music Opera Program. This far-too-rarely performed work is a simple ‘coming-of-age story,’ set in...
Now in its 21st season, Opera York continues its tradition of bringing opera to the York Region, which is roughly the area immediately north of Toronto and Highway 7. Two operas are presented each season. I’ve heard many fine young voices in the dozen or so years I’ve...
Canadians artists are firmly ensconced in the recently-announced Metropolitan Opera 18/19 season! Some of Canada’s leading stars will be returning to the Met stage, and others making their company debuts in operas such as La Bohème, Aida, Tosca and more! Met Debuts...