Metropolitan Opera Lohengrin “musically this was indeed a classy show”
I didn’t much care for his Parsifal, and I liked his Flying Dutchman even less, but at the first...
Opéra National de Paris Peter Grimes “perhaps one of the best opera productions of the last decade”
Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, directed by Deborah Warner at the Paris Opera this season, was...
Pacific Opera Victoria The Birds “the large cast of principals was top-notch”
Walter Braunfels’s Die Vögel (The Birds) is a very odd duck. Part allegory, part buffo, part...
Brott Opera La Flambeau “a fascinating world”
I wondered what I was in for when I read the front of the opera program: “A Modern opera about...
Voicebox: Opera in Concert Médée The Canadian Premiere
Luigi Cherubini’s Médée is the only opera from the Paris of the French Revolution to retain a...
Calgary Opera The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs “The story is intense and effectively told”
Calgary Opera audiences are no stranger to new, modern operas. During the years the late Bob...
