Conductor Isaac Selya and his orchestra of twenty-seven played the overture with its...
Reviews
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...
Review: Bandits in the Valley, Todmorden Mills, Toronto, Sept. 16, 2017
A new opera is taking audiences back in time at Todmorden Mills. Each weekend in September,...
At War With Philadelphia
At the renowned Philadelphia Museum of Art they presented War Stories, a double bill of...
Review: Acis and Galatea, Annex Theatre, Vancouver, Sept. 16, 2017
A new take on an old story Handel’s take on the Greek myth of Acis and Galatea received a...
The Mozartists at the Wigmore Hall
For their opening concert, at the Wigmore Hall, they were joined by one of Classical Opera’s...