If you find yourself in search of a good few hours of worry-free merriment, the return of Don...
Reviews
Canadian Opera Company
Edmonton Opera
Ayre “[McKenzie Warriner’s] soaring, penetrating, unhurried, clarion invocation…left the room in attentive silence, and then exuberant ovation”
Edmonton Opera’s Artistic Director Joel Ivany continues his eclectic approach to opera company...
The Metropolitan Opera
Roméo et Juliette “Theatrically, this is a good, tight, straightforward show”
The New York Times critic W. J. Henderson, back in 1897, punningly dubbed The Metropolitan...
Southern Ontario Lyric Opera
Carmen “Breathing new life into opera warhorses”
On March 2, Southern Ontario Lyric Opera (SOLO) presented Carmen at the Burlington...
Toronto City Opera
SusannahDylan Wright, a “tour de force”
Carlisle Floyd’s 1955 opera Susannah is performed less often than it deserves. It’s dramatically...
Canadian Opera Company
Don Giovanni Visually monumental, darkly provoking
Paolo Bordogna as Leporello (below) and Gordon Bintner as Don Giovanni (above) in the Canadian...
Edmonton Opera
Don Giovanni “Judging from the audience’s approval of the comic tone, Ivany got his Don Giovanni right”
When Edmonton Opera’s Artistic Director, Joel Ivany, remodels an operatic classic, its...
Canadian Opera Company
The Cunning Little Vixen Charmingly absurd
Leoš Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen (Jan 26, 28; Feb 3, 8, 10, *13, 14, 16, 2024), returning...
Opéra de Montréal
La Reine-Garçon “More of this, please.”
Finally, a new opera that doesn’t get in its own way! The premiere of La Reine-Garçon on February...
Toronto Operetta Theatre
The Merry Widow “Everything I needed from Léhar’s beloved creation was right here in Toronto”
When I was a young child, I was fascinated with my parents' 1960 Reader’s Digest Treasury of Great...