Reviews

_{Metropolitan OperaThe Hours} A fine opera deserving of a smaller stage

by Patrick Dillon | Dec 2, 2022 | Featured, Reviews

Is Kevin Puts’s The Hours the best brand-new opera the Metropolitan Opera has presented in years?...

_{Opéra Comique Armide} “All critics seem to agree upon one thing at least: Véronique Gens is unsurpassable as Armide.”

by Denise Wendel-Poray | Nov 29, 2022 | Featured, Reviews

Purists apparently have some bones to pick with this new production of Armide, judging from the...

_{Calgary Opera Carmen} A very fine production dedicated to the late Bramwell Tovey

by Kenneth DeLong | Nov 21, 2022 | Featured, Reviews

To open its 50th anniversary season, Calgary Opera is presenting Bizet’s Carmen. The idea to do...

_{Manitoba Opera La Cenerentola} “Haute couture frocks…brilliant set…well lit…crisply led…worth the wait”

by Holly Harris | Nov 18, 2022 | Featured, Reviews

Manitoba Opera trumpeted goodness as it opened its auspicious 50th anniversary season with...

_{Teatro Nuovo Maometto Secondo} “Vancouver native Simone McIntosh, lithe and lovely, whose crystalline high mezzo fully commanded Anna’s wide range”

by Patrick Dillon | Nov 15, 2022 | Featured, Reviews

Patience can be amply rewarded: Teatro Nuovo’s Maometto Secondo, thrice deferred, at last hit the...

_{Edmonton Opera Tosca} Slack, Pomeroy, and Barrett “were uniformly strong, both musically and dramatically”

by Bill Rankin | Oct 26, 2022 | Featured, Reviews

Edmonton Opera opened its three-show season on October 22 with a compelling production of...

_{Metropolitan Opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk} Maestro Keri-Lynn Wilson “masterfully captured not just the score’s cornucopia of arresting sonorities but its vibrant pulse”

by Patrick Dillon | Oct 22, 2022 | Featured, Reviews

Some operas have grown on me over the years; some productions have, too. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk...

_{Opera Atelier Dido and Aeneas} “well sung and satisfying”

by John Gilks | Oct 21, 2022 | Featured, Reviews

Opera Atelier’s production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas which opened last night at the Elgin...

_{Vocalypse ProductionsEscape to Freedom} A World Premiere In Halifax

by Daphna Levit | Oct 20, 2022 | Featured, Reviews

This 90-minute performance of song was an intense interpretation of a real woman’s story. Mona...

_{Canadian Opera Company Carmen} A “fine ensemble cast”

by Wayne Gooding | Oct 19, 2022 | Featured, Reviews

In his 1888 polemic, The Case Against Wagner: A Musician’s Problem, German philosopher Friedrich...

_{Metropolitan OperaThe Hours} A fine opera deserving of a smaller stage

_{Opéra Comique Armide} “All critics seem to agree upon one thing at least: Véronique Gens is unsurpassable as Armide.”

_{Calgary Opera Carmen} A very fine production dedicated to the late Bramwell Tovey

_{Manitoba Opera La Cenerentola} “Haute couture frocks…brilliant set…well lit…crisply led…worth the wait”

_{Teatro Nuovo Maometto Secondo} “Vancouver native Simone McIntosh, lithe and lovely, whose crystalline high mezzo fully commanded Anna’s wide range”

_{Edmonton Opera Tosca} Slack, Pomeroy, and Barrett “were uniformly strong, both musically and dramatically”

_{Metropolitan Opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk} Maestro Keri-Lynn Wilson “masterfully captured not just the score’s cornucopia of arresting sonorities but its vibrant pulse”

_{Opera Atelier Dido and Aeneas} “well sung and satisfying”

_{Vocalypse ProductionsEscape to Freedom} A World Premiere In Halifax

_{Canadian Opera Company Carmen} A “fine ensemble cast”

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