Millennium Centre, Cardiff Welsh National Opera mark the centenary of the 1917 revolutions in this...
Reviews
Die Zauberflöte at the ROH: radiant and eternal
As we journey from the dungeon-esque darkness of the Queen’s nocturnal demesne towards the...
Senza Sangue/Bluebeard’s Castle; The Damnation of Faust/Stravinsky ballet music – review
Hackney Empire, London/Barbican A gun-toting woman craves revenge in a gloriously tense European...
Opera at Home: A Review of Layla Claire’s Songbird
Lyric soprano Layla Claire, who hails from Penticton, B.C., was a graduate of the Metropolitan...
A Mysterious Lucia at Forest Lawn
Conductor Isaac Selya and his orchestra of twenty-seven played the overture with its...
This is Rattle: Blazing Berlioz at the Barbican Hall
If Simon Rattle can achieve such excellence in the cramped confines of the Barbican Hall, imagine...
Review: La Bohème, Burlington Performing Arts Centre, SOLO, Sept. 16, 2017
On September 16, artistic director and conductor Sabatino Vacca launched Southern Ontario Lyric...
Glimmerglass 2017 – The Afterglow
Who says you can’t go home again? The theme of this past summer’s Glimmerglass Festival 2017 was...
Moved Takes on Philadelphia Headlines
That is marketing shorthand for Philadelphia Opera Festival 2017, and in longhand, this is a...
Philly Flute’s Fast and Furious Frills
The O17 festival has appropriated Barry Koskie’s acclaimed eye-popping production and cast it from...