Teatro Nuovo Maometto Secondo “Vancouver native Simone McIntosh, lithe and lovely, whose crystalline high mezzo fully commanded Anna’s wide range”
Patience can be amply rewarded: Teatro Nuovo’s Maometto Secondo, thrice deferred, at last hit the...
Edmonton Opera Tosca Slack, Pomeroy, and Barrett “were uniformly strong, both musically and dramatically”
Edmonton Opera opened its three-show season on October 22 with a compelling production of...
Metropolitan Opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Maestro Keri-Lynn Wilson “masterfully captured not just the score’s cornucopia of arresting sonorities but its vibrant pulse”
Some operas have grown on me over the years; some productions have, too. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk...
Opera Atelier Dido and Aeneas “well sung and satisfying”
Opera Atelier’s production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas which opened last night at the Elgin...
Vocalypse ProductionsEscape to Freedom A World Premiere In Halifax
This 90-minute performance of song was an intense interpretation of a real woman’s story. Mona...
Canadian Opera Company Carmen A “fine ensemble cast”
In his 1888 polemic, The Case Against Wagner: A Musician’s Problem, German philosopher Friedrich...
