There are operas whose musical and dramatic brilliance does not show signs of ever running out, hundreds of years into their production history. Then there are operas which make you wonder if the art form is deader than a museum piece.
Reviews
Review: Toronto Operetta Theatre’s season-ending Beautiful Helen a rip-roaring Grecian romp
Toronto Operetta Theatre ends its 17/18 season with the popular French operetta, La belle Hélène...
Review: Pacific Opera Victoria’s Rinaldo the original operatic mashup!
The creators of recent mashups of history and science fiction or literature and fantasy, such as...
Review: Edmonton Opera’s “theatrically ambitious and uncompromising” Don Giovanni
It took a while to understand why the Edmonton Opera season-ending production of Mozart’s Don...
Review: Canadian Opera Company’s Nightingale “Parable on the supremacy of nature over artifice? Not so fast.”
Canadian Opera Company’s nine-year-old production of Stravinsky’s shorts, The Nightingale and...
Review: Canadian divas Jane Archibald & Adrianne Pieczonka conquer Carnegie Hall
It must have been a simple coincidence that the English Concert’s semi-staged Rinaldo happened on...
Review: Opéra de Montréal’s Svadba “provokes maximum aesthetic pleasure”
Svadba continues until March 31st at Montréal's Espace Go In my early 20s, a boyfriend introduced...
Review: Life Imitates Art in Scintillating Die Fledermaus, Glenn Gould School, Toronto
For winter-weary Toronto opera lovers in need of a feel-good show, the Royal Conservatory of...
Review: Mercury Opera’s La traviata takes over Chez Pierre Strip Club, Edmonton
Edmonton’s Mercury Opera has both a conventional and an audacious bent. The little company that...
Review: Emerging artists shine in Wilfrid Laurier University’s The Tender Land
Aaron Copland’s 1954 opera The Tender Land was given a strong and stylistically-astute...