Reviews

_{Edmonton Opera Stabat Mater} “musically powerful”

by Bill Rankin | Apr 19, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

Edmonton Opera wrapped its 59th season with four intimate performances of an apt sacred work on...

_{Pacific Opera Victoria Così fan tutte} “this cast was a joy to listen to”

by Robin J. Miller | Apr 18, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

With Pacific Opera Victoria’s latest mounting of Mozart’s Così fan tutti (seen April 12), the...

_{New Music Edmonton Le Désert Mauve} Quebec Multidisciplinary Artist Symon Henry’s New Experimental Opera

by Bill Rankin | Apr 4, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

New Music Edmonton (NME), founded in 1985, under a different name, by the Canadian composer Violet...

_{Against the Grain Theatre Bluebeard’s Castle} “A truly arresting take on the Bluebeard story”

by Joseph So | Apr 1, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

Hungarian composer Béla Bartók wrote only one opera, Bluebeard’s Castle (A kékszakállú herceg...

_{Tapestry Opera / Obsidian Theatre Of the Sea} “a very considerable achievement”

by John Gilks | Mar 28, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

Of the Sea; libretto by Kanika Ambrose, music by Ian Cusson, premiered at the Bluma Appel Theatre...

_{Metropolitan Opera Falstaff} “Everything about [Rustioni’s] deft, graceful, shipshape account of this infinitely rewarding score seemed unobtrusively right”

by Patrick Dillon | Mar 27, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

Since its unveiling at London’s Royal Opera in 2012, Robert Carsen’s temporal transplant of...

_{Metropolitan Opera Lohengrin} “musically this was indeed a classy show”

by Patrick Dillon | Mar 10, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

I didn’t much care for his Parsifal, and I liked his Flying Dutchman even less, but at the first...

_{Opéra National de Paris Peter Grimes} “perhaps one of the best opera productions of the last decade”

by Denise Wendel-Poray | Mar 6, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, directed by Deborah Warner at the Paris Opera this season, was...

_{Pacific Opera Victoria The Birds} “the large cast of principals was top-notch”

by Robin J. Miller | Mar 1, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

Walter Braunfels’s Die Vögel (The Birds) is a very odd duck. Part allegory, part buffo, part...

_{Brott Opera La Flambeau} “a fascinating world”

by Dawn Martens | Feb 27, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

I wondered what I was in for when I read the front of the opera program: “A Modern opera about...

_{Edmonton Opera Stabat Mater} “musically powerful”

_{Pacific Opera Victoria Così fan tutte} “this cast was a joy to listen to”

_{New Music Edmonton Le Désert Mauve} Quebec Multidisciplinary Artist Symon Henry’s New Experimental Opera

_{Against the Grain Theatre Bluebeard’s Castle} “A truly arresting take on the Bluebeard story”

_{Tapestry Opera / Obsidian Theatre Of the Sea} “a very considerable achievement”

_{Metropolitan Opera Falstaff} “Everything about [Rustioni’s] deft, graceful, shipshape account of this infinitely rewarding score seemed unobtrusively right”

_{Metropolitan Opera Lohengrin} “musically this was indeed a classy show”

_{Opéra National de Paris Peter Grimes} “perhaps one of the best opera productions of the last decade”

_{Pacific Opera Victoria The Birds} “the large cast of principals was top-notch”

_{Brott Opera La Flambeau} “a fascinating world”

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