Nowadays, it seems even stagings of comic operas are enamored with minimalism, skewing toward a...
Reviews
Review: L’enfant et les sortilèges & Trouble in Tahiti, Opera North, Theatre Royal, Nottingham, Nov. 2 & 3, 2017
It would be difficult to imagine a more hard-working company than Britain’s Opera North. To...
Review: Singing Stars: The Next Generation—IRCPA, Nov. 6, 2017
At Zoomer Hall (the performing space of 96.3 New Classical FM) on Nov. 6, I had the pleasure of...
Review: Calixa Lavallée’s The Widow, Toronto Operetta Theatre, Nov. 5, 2018
Is Canada’s own ‘Merry’ Widow really Canadian at all? Marketed as Canada’s own ‘Merry’ Widow,...
Review: Missing, City Opera Vancouver, Nov. 3, 2017
Missing, a co-commission by City Opera Vancouver and Pacific Opera Victoria, opened at Vancouver’s...
Review: New Berlioz: Les Troyens (Erato)
Berlioz: Les Troyens (Erato) John Nelson, Joyce DiDonato, Michael Spyres, Marie-Nicole Lemieux...
La Tragédie de Carmen review – opera on an unforgivingly small scale
Wilton’s Music Hall, London Peter Brook’s take on Bizet squeezes all the famous tunes into...
The 2017 Glyndebourne Tour arrives in Canterbury with a satisfying Così fan tutte
Hytner’s elegant production is a smooth slow-burner: everything unfolds with subtlety and...
The Consul review – Menotti’s clunky opera resists Guildhall’s best efforts
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London A talented team do their best to breathe life...
Lucia di Lammermoor review – bloody and convincing
Royal Opera House, London Katie Mitchell’s intelligent production of Donizetti’s opera -...