Canadian Opera Company’s nine-year-old production of Stravinsky’s shorts, The Nightingale and...
Reviews
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...
Review: Fresh voices, whimsical staging, deft conducting brighten Opera York’s Le nozze di Figaro
Now in its 21st season, Opera York continues its tradition of bringing opera to the York Region,...
Review: The Abduction from the Seraglio reinvented at Canadian Opera Company, Feb. 7, 2018
Wajdi Mouawad’s much anticipated production of Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio made its...
Review: Jazzified HMS Pinafore at Edmonton Opera, Feb. 3, 2018
There’s a faction of Edmonton Opera supporters who would love to see an operetta every time they...
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...