Opera in concert or a minimalist staging? Despite the company’s title, Voicebox: Opera in...
Reviews
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...
Review: La Cenerentola, Opéra de Montréal, Nov. 11, 2017
Nowadays, it seems even stagings of comic operas are enamored with minimalism, skewing toward a...
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,...