Toronto Operetta Theatre A Waltz Dream: “hugely entertaining staging”
Toronto Operetta Theatre (TOT) billed its season-closing production of Oscar Straus’s A Waltz...
Opera Lafayette’s Silvain Artistic Director Ryan Brown “came through big-time in the pit”
I’d very much missed Opera Lafayette, whose annual visits to New York from its homebase in...
Concours Musical International de Montreal Part 7 Aria finals, dessert
Eleven days of absurd artistic competition came to an end in a two hour squeeze on Thursday night....
Concours Musical International de Montreal Part 6 Aria semifinals, pasta course
The second semifinal started with a warning that we would first hear an overture; the previous...
Concours Musical International de Montreal Part 5 Aria semifinals, first course
The competition moved to the big garish canoe, the Maison Symphonique, for the rest of the aria...
Concours Musical International de Montreal Part 4 Art Song finals, let’s call it a tie
The absurdity of comparing performers becomes the most acute in the finals. Typically, by now,...
