Reviews

_{Canadian Opera
La bohème} “The attractive power of La bohème is such that even after seeing it countless times, you can be sucked right back into its world after just a few bars”

by Wayne Gooding | Oct 10, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

The Canadian Opera Company mounted its John Caird staging of Puccini’s La bohème for the third...

_{San Francisco Opera
The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs} “Olivia Smith was outstanding”

by John Bender | Oct 7, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs by Mason Bates, with libretto by Mark Campbell, starts with Jobs’s...

_{Park Avenue Armory
Doppelganger} featured “Michael Levine’s typically spare and striking design”

by Patrick Dillon | Oct 6, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

What is it about Schubert song cycles that attracts the Regie gang? In recent years Christof Loy,...

_{San Francisco Opera
Il trovatore} “Eun Sun Kim has brought fresh life to the San Francisco Opera”

by John Bender | Oct 4, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

Giuseppe Verdi’s Il trovatore is about a hallucinating witch and two men who do not know they are...

_{Opéra National de Paris
Don Giovanni} John Relyea is “electrifying”

by Denise Wendel-Poray | Sep 25, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

In Denise Wendel-Poray’s words: “Relyea‘s final entrance as the Commendatore is electrifying…his massive stature, charismatic presence, and sonorous voice, looming through the penumbra to deliver the final and fatal blow.”

Atom Egoyan
Seven Veils TIFF Avant-Première at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts

by Joseph So | Sep 14, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

For opera fans who are also movie buffs, a highly anticipated event of the 2023 TIFF (Toronto...

_{Manitoba Underground Opera
Castor et Pollux} “an all-immersive, late summer treat”

by Holly Harris | Sep 11, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

Manitoba Underground Opera took audiences from heaven to hell this summer, with Rameau’s Castor et...

_{Maritime Concert Opera
La Traviata Verdi} “A major triumph”

by Daphna Levit | Sep 1, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

When La Traviata was first performed in Venice in 1853 it was a major disappointment. This was the...

_{OrpheusPDX
Il Re Pastore Mozart} “Whyte created a stellar Aminta”

by James Bash | Aug 29, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

Operagoers may have been tempted to think that an opera from the likes of a teenage Mozart would...

_{Halifax Summer Opera Festival
Serse and La Jolie Parfumeuse} “Brought great pleasure to the audience”

by Daphna Levit | Aug 29, 2023 | Featured, Reviews

This summer, in its 17th season, Halifax Summer Opera Festival brought enthusiastic young singers...

_{Canadian Opera
La bohème} “The attractive power of La bohème is such that even after seeing it countless times, you can be sucked right back into its world after just a few bars”

_{San Francisco Opera
The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs} “Olivia Smith was outstanding”

_{Park Avenue Armory
Doppelganger} featured “Michael Levine’s typically spare and striking design”

_{San Francisco Opera
Il trovatore} “Eun Sun Kim has brought fresh life to the San Francisco Opera”

_{Opéra National de Paris
Don Giovanni} John Relyea is “electrifying”

Atom Egoyan
Seven Veils TIFF Avant-Première at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts

_{Manitoba Underground Opera
Castor et Pollux} “an all-immersive, late summer treat”

_{Maritime Concert Opera
La Traviata Verdi} “A major triumph”

_{OrpheusPDX
Il Re Pastore Mozart} “Whyte created a stellar Aminta”

_{Halifax Summer Opera Festival
Serse and La Jolie Parfumeuse} “Brought great pleasure to the audience”

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