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Manitoba Underground Opera
San Francisco Opera
Innocence “De Sévigné compensated with fine acting, while discharging the vocal line with precision and tonal beauty.”
San Francisco Opera: Innocence
Glyndebourne
Carmen “Paulus’ Carmen is at once a powerful psychological drama and a testament to women’s universal struggle for freedom.”
Glyndebourne: Carmen “Paulus’ Carmen is at once a powerful psychological drama and a testament to women’s universal struggle for freedom.”
Royal Opera House
Andrea Chénier “This is opera at its finest””
Royal Opera House: Andrea Chénier
Edmonton Opera
Das Rheingold “It was compellingly forceful and intimidatingly compelling, and by the time he was cursing the gods who robbed him of his glorious future with the ring, this Alberich was perversely in charge, both operatically and narratively. Mazerolle sang his hope and fury splendidly.””
Edmonton —The phrase “Wagner chamber opera” sounds like an oxymoron, but that’s what Edmonton...
Canadian Children’s Opera Company
The Hobbit “As long as imagination and creativity are alive, The Hobbit will continue to entertain and inspire the child in all of us for generations to come.”
From May 31st to June 2nd, The Canadian Children’s Opera Company (CCOC) presented four...
Opéra de Québec
Die Fledermaus “The result was colorful, entertaining, and full of Quebecois allusions.”
Cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic, Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus was finally performed four...
Canadian Opera Company
Medea “an opera that seizes you by the scruff and makes you want to come back for more”
Greek myths might bring to mind settings of vast chalky columns bathed in Mediterranean light, but...
The Little Opera Company
The Walk from the Garden Jonathan Dove “Taking the road less travelled with this gripping, metaphorical tale for modern times”
The Little Opera Company (LOC) took a bold leap of faith as it closed its 2023/24 season with the...
Vancouver Opera
Carmen “Box office-breaking opening… the highest-grossing and largest scale production in the company’s 64-year history”
Carmen, the opera that Stephen Sondheim once called a non-stop hit parade, boasts a double cast of...