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Reviews
Review: Hänsel und Gretel reopens Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden
Children, hardly a revelation, are not easy to please at the opera. A small boy spotted at Covent...
Review: Premiere of Richardson-Schulte & Chattertons’ Shot, Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Dec. 7, 2017
It was a tale of two D’Arcy McGees as the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra presented a double bill...
Review: John Adams & Peter Sellars’ Girls of the Golden West, San Francisco Opera, Nov. 24, 2017
During recent decades, John Adams has composed a range of highly successful operas, including the...
Review: Handel’s Rodelinda, VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert, Nov. 26, 2017
Opera in concert or a minimalist staging? Despite the company’s title, Voicebox: Opera in...
Semiramide review – Rossini sounds sublime in Alden’s eccentric staging
Rossini’s great 1823 tragedy Semiramide, his last work composed for Italy before he based himself...
As One a Haunting Success in San Diego
The relatively new one act opera, As One (music by Laura Kaminsky, book by Mark Campbell and...
Review: Don Giovanni for the #metoo generation at UofT Opera, Nov. 23, 2017
A changed world makes for a changed Don Giovanni. Produced by an all female team, UofT Opera’s...
Marnie review – Nico Muhly’s psycho thriller sounds beautiful but fails to thrill
Given its world premiere by English National Opera, Nico Muhly’s Marnie is drawn from Winston...
Another take; Review: Missing, Pacific Opera Victoria, Nov. 19, 2017
As an opera, Missing is under-written. As an important piece of theatre that builds over its short...