Toronto-based company The Electric Bond Opera Ensemble present two one-act operas, Another Sunrise...
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Five Canadians are Finalists in The International Opera Awards, Jan. 29, 2018
This morning, the International Opera Awards revealed their 2018 finalists, five of them renowned...
Review: Heggie’s Moby-Dick with Roger Honeywell, Utah Opera, Jan. 20, 2018
In composer Jake Heggie’s operatic treatment of Moby-Dick, there are significant obstacles when...
Review: L’elisir d’amore, Vancouver Opera, Jan. 21, 2018
It has been nearly twenty years since L’elisir d’amore graced the Vancouver Opera stage, so the...
Review: Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges, Berlin Philharmonic’s Digital Concert Hall, Jan. 21, 2018
When it comes to the live presentation of both orchestral as well as operatic works, the Berlin...
Review: Christopher Alden’s didactic Rigoletto, Canadian Opera Company, Jan. 20, 2018
Christopher Alden’s production of Verdi’s Rigoletto originated in 2000 at Lyric Opera of Chicago...
Canadian Opera Company announces 18/19 season headed by Rufus Wainwright’s Hadrian
This morning at 10 a.m. E.S.T. the Canadian Opera Company released its plans for the 18/19 season....
Review: Four Note Opera, Erato Ensemble, Vancouver, Dec. 9, 2017
What does an opera lover do on a raw December night in Vancouver, with no opera on the visible...
Review: Barbe & Doucets’ La belle Hélène, Hamburg State Opera, Dec. 31, 2017
One good parody deserves another. And so it was with the Hamburg State Opera’s revival of Barbe...
Review: Julie Boulianne in Massenet’s Werther, Oper Frankfurt, Dec. 30, 2017
Massenet's Werther (seen at Oper Frankfurt on Dec. 30, 2017), based on Goethe’s epistolary novel...